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)

2015

Dai, Kehua, Zhihui Wang, Guo Ai, Hui Zhao, Wen Yuan, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Chengdong Sun, Kai Wu, and Gao Liu."The transformation of graphite electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries after cycling."Journal of Power Sources 298 (2015) 349 - 354. DOI

Bai, Ying, Xingzhen Zhou, Zhe Jia, Chuan Wu, Liwei Yang, Mizi Chen, Hui Zhao, Feng Wu, and Gao Liu."Understanding the combined effects of microcrystal growth and band gap reduction for Fe_(1−x)Ti_xF₃ nanocomposites as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Energy 17 (2015) 140 - 151. DOI

2014

Zhao, Hui, Zhihui Wang, Peng Lu, Meng Jiang, Feifei Shi, Xiangyun Song, Ziyang Zheng, Xin Zhou, Yanbao Fu, Guerfi Abdelbast, Xingcheng Xiao, Zhi Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, Karim Zaghib, and Gao Liu."Toward practical application of functional conductive polymer binder for a high-energy lithium-ion battery design."Nano Letters 14 (2014) 6704–6710. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Xin Zhou, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Min Ling, Neslihan Yuca, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."A polymerized vinylene carbonate anode binder enhances performance of lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 288-295. DOI

Yuca, Neslihan, Hui Zhao, Xiangyun Song, Murat F Dogdu, Wen Yuan, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Xingcheng Xiao, and Gao Liu."A Systematic Investigation of Polymer Binder Flexibility on the Electrode Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (2014) 17111-17118. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Hui Zhao, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Toward high specific capacity and high cycling stability of pure tin nanoparticles with conductive polymer binder for sodium ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 276-279. DOI

Shi, Feifei, Hui Zhao, Gao Liu, Philip N Ross, Gabor A Somorjai, and Kyriakos Komvopoulos."Identification of Diethyl 2,5-Dioxahexane Dicarboxylate and Polyethylene Carbonate as Decomposition Products of Ethylene Carbonate Based Electrolytes by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (2014) 14732-14738. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Philip N Ross, and Gao Liu."Propylene Carbonate (PC)-Based Electrolytes with High Coulombic Efficiency for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161.1 (2014) A194-A200. DOI

2013

Ling, Min, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Hui Zhao, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."An environmentally benign LIB fabrication process using a low cost, water soluble and efficient binder."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1.38 (2013) 11543-11547. DOI