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)

2020

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zengqing Zhuo, Yan Feng, Wenfeng Mao, Guo Ai, Feng Pan, Yi-den Chuang, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode."Nano Energy 74 (2020) 104831. DOI

2019

Mao, Jing, Xin Liu, Jianwen Liu, Heyang Jiang, Tao Zhang, Guosheng Shao, Guo Ai, Wenfeng Mao, Yan Feng, Wanli Yang, Gao Liu, and Kehua Dai."P2-type Na _2/3 Ni _1/3Mn _2/3O ₂ Cathode Material with Excellent Rate and Cycling Performance for Sodium-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.16 (2019) A3980 - A3986. DOI

2016

Mao, Jing, Kehua Dai, Minjie Xuan, Guosheng Shao, Ruimin Qiao, Wanli Yang, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Effect of Chromium and Niobium Doping on the Morphology and Electrochemical Performance of High-Voltage Spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Cathode Material."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.14 (2016) 9116 - 9124. DOI

Mao, Jing, Mengze Ma, Panpan Liu, Junhua Hu, Guosheng Shao, Vincent S. Battaglia, Kehua Dai, and Gao Liu."The effect of cobalt doping on the morphology and electrochemical performance of high-voltage spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄cathode material."Solid State Ionics 292 (2016) 70 - 74. DOI

2015

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Na_0.44MnO₂ with very fast sodium diffusion and stable cycling synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone-combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 285 (2015) 161 - 168. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI

2014

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zitao Li, Yuchun Zhai, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Microsized single-crystal spinel LAMO for high-power lithium ion batteries synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 248 (2014) 22-27. DOI