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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2020

Corson, Elizabeth R., Ananya Subramani, Jason K. Cooper, Robert Kostecki, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Reduction of carbon dioxide at a plasmonically active copper–silver cathode."Chemical Communications 56.69 (2020) 9970 - 9973. DOI

Bui, Ngoc T., Hyungmook Kang, Simon J. Teat, Gregory M. Su, Chih-Wen Pao, Yi-Sheng Liu, Edmond W. Zaia, Jinghua Guo, Jeng-Lung Chen, Katie R. Meihaus, Chaochao Dun, Tracy M. Mattox, Jeffrey R. Long, Peter Fiske, Robert Kostecki, and Jeffrey J. Urban."A nature-inspired hydrogen-bonded supramolecular complex for selective copper ion removal from water."Nature Communications 11.1 (2020). DOI

Corson, Elizabeth R., Recep Kas, Robert Kostecki, Jeffrey J. Urban, Wilson A. Smith, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Ruud Kortlever."In Situ ATR–SEIRAS of Carbon Dioxide Reduction at a Plasmonic Silver Cathode."Journal of the American Chemical Society 142.27 (2020) 11750 - 11762. DOI

Corson, Elizabeth R., Erin B. Creel, Robert Kostecki, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Jeffrey J. Urban."Important Considerations in Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Conversion at Voltage-Biased Electrodes."iScience 23.3 (2020) 100911. DOI

2019

de la Fuente, Mauricio Solis, Sumanjeet Kaur, Qin Hu, Edward S. Barnard, Peter Dudenas, Ahmet Kusoglu, Thomas P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Ravi S. Prasher."Enhanced Charge Carrier Transport in 2D Perovskites by Incorporating Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes or Graphene."ACS Energy Letters 5.1 (2019) 109 - 116. DOI

Urban, Jeffrey J., Akanksha K. Menon, Zhiting Tian, Anubhav Jain, and Kedar Hippalgaonkar."New horizons in thermoelectric materials: Correlated electrons, organic transport, machine learning, and more."Journal of Applied Physics 125.18 (2019) 180902. DOI

Creel, Erin B., Elizabeth R. Corson, Johanna Eichhorn, Robert Kostecki, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Directing Selectivity of Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Using Plasmonics."ACS Energy Letters 4.5 (2019) 1098 - 1105. DOI

Hsu, , Chih-Hao, Canghai Ma, Ngoc Bui, Zhuonan Song, Aaron D. Wilson, Robert Kostecki, Kyle M. Diederichsen, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Jeffrey J. Urban."Enhanced Forward Osmosis Desalination with a Hybrid Ionic Liquid/Hydrogel Thermoresponsive Draw Agent System."ACS Omega 4.2 (2019) 4296 - 4303. DOI

Hsu, , Chih-Hao, Canghai Ma, Ngoc Bui, Zhuonan Song, Aaron D. Wilson, Robert Kostecki, Kyle M. Diederichsen, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Jeffrey J. Urban."Enhanced Forward Osmosis Desalination with a Hybrid Ionic Liquid/Hydrogel Thermoresponsive Draw Agent System."ACS Omega 4.2 (2019) 4296 - 4303. DOI

2018

Kim, Youngsang, Erin B. Creel, Elizabeth R. Corson, Bryan D. McCloskey, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Robert Kostecki."Surface-Plasmon-Assisted Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO₂ and NO₃⁻on Nanostructured Silver Electrodes."Advanced Energy Materials 8.22 (2018) 1800363. DOI

Corson, Elizabeth R., Erin B. Creel, Youngsang Kim, Jeffrey J. Urban, Robert Kostecki, and Bryan D. McCloskey."A temperature-controlled photoelectrochemical cell for quantitative product analysis."Review of Scientific Instruments 89.5 (2018) 055112. DOI

2017

Papp, Joseph K., Jason D. Forster, Colin M. Burke, Hyo Won Kim, Alan C. Luntz, Robert M. Shelby, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) Binder Degradation in Li–O ₂ Batteries: A Consideration for the Characterization of Lithium Superoxide."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8.6 (2017) 1169 - 1174. DOI

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