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

Lucas, Ivan T, A S McLeod, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, D S Middlemiss, Clare P Grey, D N Basov, and Robert Kostecki."IR Near-Field Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Li_xFePO₄ Microcrystals."Nano Letters 15.1 (2015) 1 - 7. DOI

2014

Qiao, Ruimin, Ivan T Lucas, Altaf Karim, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, Xiaosong Liu, Wei Chen, Kristin A Persson, Robert Kostecki, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Solid-Electrolyte-Interphases on Sn (100) and (001) Electrodes Studied by Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy."Advanced Materials Interfaces (2014). DOI

2013

Lux, Simon F, Julie S Chevalier, Ivan T Lucas, and Robert Kostecki."HF Formation in LiPF₆-Based Organic Carbonate Electrolytes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 2.12 (2013) A121-A123. DOI

Lux, Simon F, Ivan T Lucas, Julie S Chevalier, Thomas J Richardson, and Robert Kostecki."Time-Dependent Determination of HF Formation in LiPF₆-Containing Electrolytes in Different Cell Types by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry."ECS Transactions 50.1 (2013) 27-30. DOI

2012

Lux, Simon F, Ivan T Lucas, Elad Pollak, Stefano Passerini, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."The mechanism of HF formation in LiPF₆ based organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 14.1 (2012) 47-50. DOI

2011

Lucas, Ivan T, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, and Robert Kostecki."Interfacial processes at single-crystal β-Sn electrodes in organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 13.11 (2011) 1271-1275. DOI

He, Qinggang, Ahmet Kusoglu, Ivan T Lucas, Kyle Clark, Adam Z Weber, and Robert Kostecki."Correlating Humidity-Dependent Ionically Conductive Surface Area with Transport Phenomena in Proton-Exchange Membranes."J. Phys. Chem. B. 115.40 (2011) 11650-11657. DOI

2010

Pollak, Elad, Baisong Geng, Ki-Joon Jeon, Ivan T Lucas, Thomas J Richardson, Feng Wang, and Robert Kostecki."The interaction of Li⁺ with single-layer and few-layer graphene."Nano letters 10.9 (2010) 3386-3388. DOI

Pollak, Elad, Ivan T Lucas, and Robert Kostecki."A study of lithium transport in aluminum membranes."Electrochemistry Communications 12.2 (2010) 198-201. DOI

2009

Lucas, Ivan T, Elad Pollak, and Robert Kostecki."In situ AFM studies of SEI formation at a Sn electrode."Electrochemistry Communications 11.11 (2009) 2157-2160. DOI

2008

Hardwick, Laurence J, Juliette A Saint, Ivan T Lucas, Marca M Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."FTIR and Raman Study of the Li_xTi_yMn_1-yO₂ (y= 0, 0.11) Cathodes in Methylpropyl Pyrrolidinium Bis(fluoro-sulfonyl)imide, LiTFSI Electrolyte."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156.2 (2008) A120-A127. DOI