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)

2021

Besli, Münir M, Camille Usubelli, Anantharaman Subbaraman, Farshad RamezanPo Safaei, Sharon Bone, Christina Johnston, Gerhard Schneider, Francois Beauchaud, Nikhil Ravi, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, Michael Metzger, and Saravanan Kuppan."Location-Dependent Cobalt Deposition in Smartphone Cells upon Long-Term Fast-Charging Visualized by Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence."Chemistry of Materials 33.16 (2021) 6318 - 6328. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Anantharaman Subbaraman, Farshad R.Pour Safaei, Christina Johnston, Gerhard Schneider, Nikhil Ravi, Jake Christensen, Yijin Liu, Marca M Doeff, Michael Metzger, and Saravanan Kuppan."A Study of Model‐Based Protective Fast‐Charging and Associated Degradation in Commercial Smartphone Cells: Insights on Cathode Degradation as a Result of Lithium Depositions on the Anode."Advanced Energy Materials 11.12 (2021) 2003019. DOI

2020

Sebti, Elias, Münir M Besli, Michael Metzger, Sondra Hellstrom, Morgan J Schultz-Neu, Judith Alvarado, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, Saravanan Kuppan, and Chinmayee V Subban."Removal of Na+ and Ca2+ with Prussian blue analogue electrodes for brackish water desalination."Desalination 487 (2020) 114479. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Camille Usubelli, Michael Metzger, Vikram Pande, Katherine Harry, Dennis Nordlund, Sami Sainio, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, and Saravanan Kuppan."Effect of Liquid Electrolyte Soaking on the Interfacial Resistance of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ for All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.18 (2020) 20605 - 20612. DOI

2019

Besli, Münir M, Alpesh K Shukla, Chenxi Wei, Michael Metzger, Judith Alvarado, Julian Boell, Dennis Nordlund, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Christina Johnston, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Saravanan Kuppan."Thermally-driven mesopore formation and oxygen release in delithiated NCA cathode particles."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.20 (2019) 12593 - 12603. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Camille Usubelli, Michael Metzger, Sondra Hellstrom, Sami Sainio, Dennis Nordlund, Jake Christensen, Gerhard Schneider, Marca M Doeff, and Saravanan Kuppan."Long-term chemothermal stability of delithiated NCA in polymer solid-state batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.47 (2019) 27135 - 27147. DOI

Besli, Münir M, Sihao Xia, Saravanan Kuppan, Yiqing Huang, Michael Metzger, Alpesh K Shukla, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, and Yijin Liu."Mesoscale Chemomechanical Interplay of the LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ Cathode in Solid-State Polymer Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 31.2 (2019) 491 - 501. DOI