Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2019

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Iryna V Zenyuk, Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z Weber, and Jeff T Gostick."Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study."Electrochimica Acta 295 (2019) 861 - 874. DOI

2018

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Iryna V Zenyuk, Andrew D Shum, Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z Weber, and Jeffrey T Gostick."Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 127 (2018) 687 - 703. DOI

2015

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Jeffrey T Gostick, Gisuk Hwang, Adam Z Weber, and Marcos Vera."Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of local saturation and application to macroscopic continuum models."Journal of Power Sources 296 (2015) 440 - 453. DOI

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z Weber, and Jeffrey T Gostick."Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 86 (2015) 319 - 333. DOI

Zenyuk, Iryna V, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Gisuk Hwang, and Adam Z Weber."Probing water distribution in compressed fuel-cell gas-diffusion layers using X-ray computed tomography."Electrochemistry Communications 53 (2015) 24 - 28. DOI

2013

Hwang, Gisuk, Hyoungchul Kim, Roger Lujan, Rangachary Mukundan, Dusan Spernjak, Rodney L Borup, Massoud Kaviany, Moo Hwan Kim, and Adam Z Weber."Phase-change-related degradation of catalyst layers in proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells."Electrochimica Acta 95 (2013) 29 - 37. DOI

Hwang, Gisuk, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Ahmet Kusoglu, Alastair A MacDowell, and Adam Z Weber."Understanding Water Uptake and Transport in Nafion Using X-ray Microtomography."ACS Macro Letters 2.4 (2013) 288 - 291. DOI

2012

Zhu, Xiaobing, John B Kerr, Qinggang He, Gisuk Hwang, Zulima Martin, Kyle Clark, Adam Z Weber, and Nana Zhao."Bridge to Fuel Cell Molecular Catalysis: 3D Non-Platinum Group Metal Catalyst in MEAs."ECS Transactions 45.2 (2012) 143 - 152. DOI

Hwang, Gisuk, and Adam Z Weber."Effective-Diffusivity Measurement of Partially-Saturated Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) F683 - F692. DOI

2011

Hwang, Gisuk, Massoud Kaviany, Jeffrey T Gostick, Brian L Kienitz, Adam Z Weber, and Moo Hwan Kim."Role of Water States on Water Uptake and Proton Transport in Nafion using Molecular Simulations and Bimodal Network."Polymer 52.12 (2011) 2584-2593. DOI