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)

2010

Doeff, Marca M, Jiajun Chen, Thomas E Conry, Ruigang Wang, James D Wilcox, and Albert Aumentado."Combustion synthesis of nanoparticulate LiMg_xMn_1-xPO₄ (x= 0, 0.1, 0.2) carbon composites."Journal of Materials Research 25 (2010) 1460-1468. DOI

2009

Wilcox, James D, Efrain E Rodriguez, and Marca M Doeff."The Impact of Aluminum and Iron Substitution on the Structure and Electrochemistry of Li(Ni_0.4Co_0.2-yM_yMn_0.4)O₂ Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A1011-A1018. DOI

Wilcox, James D, Sébastien Patoux, and Marca M Doeff."Structure and Electrochemistry of LiNi_1/3Co_1/3-yM_yMn_1/3O₂ (M= Ti, Al, Fe) Positive Electrode Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A192-A198. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, James D Wilcox, Marca M Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Coatings on LiNi_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3O₂ for Li-ion Battery Composite Cathodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156.1 (2009) A48-A51. DOI

2008

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Rong Yu, Albert Aumentado, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Impact of carbon structure and morphology on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄/C composites."Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 12.7-8 (2008) 995-1001. DOI

Chen, Guoying, James D Wilcox, and Thomas J Richardson."Improving the performance of lithium manganese phosphate through divalent cation substitution."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 11.11 (2008) A190-A194. DOI

Saint, Juliette A, Marca M Doeff, and James D Wilcox."Electrode materials with the Na_0.44MnO₂ structure: Effect of titanium substitution on physical and electrochemical properties."Chemistry of Materials 20 (2008) 3404-3411. DOI

Gabrisch, Heike, James D Wilcox, and Marca M Doeff."TEM study of fracturing in spherical and plate-like LiFePO₄ particles."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 11 (2008) A25-A29. DOI

Wilcox, James D, and Marca M Doeff."Characterization and Electrochemical Performance of Substituted LiNi_0.4Co_0.2-yAl_yMn_0.4O₂ (0≤y≤0.2) Cathode Materials."ECS Transactions 11.29 (2008) 27-33. DOI

2007

Wilcox, James D, Marca M Doeff, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Factors influencing the quality of carbon coatings on LiFePO₄."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 154.5 (2007) A389-A395. DOI

Gabrisch, Heike, James D Wilcox, and Marca M Doeff."TEM Studies of Carbon Coated LiFePO₄ After Charge Discharge Cycling."ECS Transactions 3.36 (2007) 29-36. DOI

2006

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Robert Kostecki, and Grace Y Lau."Optimization of carbon coatings on LiFePO₄."Journal of power sources 163.1 (2006) 180-184. DOI

Gabrisch, Heike, James D Wilcox, and Marca M Doeff."Carbon surface layers on a high-rate LiFePO₄."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 9 (2006) A360-A363. DOI