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.
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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)

2020

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Qizhang Yan, Sicen Yu, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Lu Ma, Tongchao Liu, Matthew Li, Ruoqian Lin, Yiming Chen, Yejing Li, Xing Xing, Yoonjung Choi, Lucy Gao, Helen Sung-yun Cho, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Khalil Amine, Tianpin Wu, Jun Lu, Huolin L Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries."Nature 585.7823 (2020) 63 - 67. DOI

2019

Pan, Taijun, Judith Alvarado, Jian Zhu, Yuan Yue, Huolin L Xin, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Structural Degradation of Layered Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries Induced by Ball Milling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.10 (2019) A1964 - A1971. DOI

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Jason Huang, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Ruoqian Lin, Yejing Li, Sicen Yu, Xing Xing, Qizhang Yan, Xiangguo Li, Matthew J Frost, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Huolin L Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."Elucidating the Limit of Li Insertion into the Spinel Li ₄Ti ₅O ₁₂."ACS Materials Letters 1.1 (2019) 96 - 102. DOI

Lin, Ruoqian, Enyuan Hu, Mingjie Liu, Yi Wang, Hao Cheng, Jinpeng Wu, Jin-Cheng Zheng, Qin Wu, Seongmin Bak, Xiao Tong, Rui Zhang, Wanli Yang, Kristin A Persson, Xiqian Yu, Xiao-Qing Yang, and Huolin L Xin."Anomalous metal segregation in lithium-rich material provides design rules for stable cathode in lithium-ion battery."Nature Communications 10.1 (2019). DOI

2018

Cheng, Lei, Miao Liu, Apurva Mehta, Huolin L Xin, Feng Lin, Kristin A Persson, Guoying Chen, Ethan J Crumlin, and Marca M Doeff."Garnet Electrolyte Surface Degradation and Recovery."ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.12 (2018) 7244 - 7252. DOI

Mu, Linqin, Ruoqian Lin, Rong Xu, Lili Han, Sihao Xia, Dimosthenis Sokaras, James D Steiner, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, Kejie Zhao, Huolin L Xin, and Feng Lin."Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials."Nano Letters 18.5 (2018) 3241 - 3249. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Dennis Nordlund, Huolin L Xin, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Depth-Dependent Redox Behavior of LiNi _0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.3 (2018) A696 - A704. DOI

2017

Lin, Feng, Yijin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lei Cheng, Andrej Singer, Oleg G Shpyrko, Huolin L Xin, Nobumichi Tamura, Chixia Tian, Tsu-Chien Weng, Xiao-Qing Yang, Ying Shirley Meng, Dennis Nordlund, Wanli Yang, and Marca M Doeff."Synchrotron X-ray Analytical Techniques for Studying Materials Electrochemistry in Rechargeable Batteries."Chemical Reviews 117.21 (2017) 13123 - 13186. DOI

Niu, Kaiyang, You Xu, Haicheng Wang, Rong Ye, Huolin L Xin, Feng Lin, Chixia Tian, Yanwei Lum, Karen C Bustillo, Marca M Doeff, Marc T.M Koper, Joel W Ager, Rong Xu, and Haimei Zheng."A spongy nickel-organic CO ₂reduction photocatalyst for nearly 100% selective CO production."Science Advances 3.7 (2017) e1700921. DOI

Ma, Yulin, Yan Zhou, Chunyu Du, Pengjian Zuo, Xinqun Cheng, Lili Han, Dennis Nordlund, Yunzhi Gao, Geping Yin, Huolin L Xin, Marca M Doeff, Feng Lin, and Guoying Chen."A New Anion Receptor for Improving the Interface between Lithium- and Manganese-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode and the Electrolyte."Chemistry of Materials 29.5 (2017) 2141 - 2149. DOI

2015

He, K, Huolin L Xin, K Zhao, X Yu, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, J Li, Y Jiang, C A Cadigan, R M Richards, Marca M Doeff, Xiao-Qing Yang, E A Stach, J Li, Feng Lin, and D Su."Transitions from Near-Surface to Interior Redox upon Lithiation in Conversion Electrode Materials."Nano Lett 15 (2015) 1437-44. DOI

2014

Lin, Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Taijun Pan, Isaac M Markus, Tsu-Chien Weng, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Influence of synthesis conditions on the surface passivation and electrochemical behavior of layered cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (2014) 19833-19840. DOI

Lin, Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Isaac M Markus, Tsu-Chien Weng, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Profiling the nanoscale gradient in stoichiometric layered cathode particles for lithium-ion batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 7.9 (2014) 3077-3085. DOI

Lin, Feng, Isaac M Markus, Marca M Doeff, and Huolin L Xin."Chemical and Structural Stability of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Materials under Electron Beam."Scientific Reports 4 (2014). DOI

Lin, Feng, Isaac M Markus, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Mark D Asta, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nature communications 5 (2014). DOI

2012

Ji, Liwen, Huolin L Xin, Tevye R Kuykendall, Shao-Ling Wu, Haimei Zheng, Mumin Rao, Elton J Cairns, Vincent S Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."SnS₂ nanoparticle loaded graphene nanocomposites for superior energy storage."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14.19 (2012) 6981-6986. DOI