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

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Jinpeng Wu, Liang Zhang, Nobumichi Tamura, Yi- de Chuang, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Oxygen Redox Activities in Li2MO3 (M = Mn, Ru, Ir)."ACS Energy Letters 6.10 (2021) 3417 - 3424. DOI

Yue, Yuan, Yang Ha, Tzu-Yang Huang, Ning Li, Linze Li, Qingtian Li, Jun Feng, Chongmin Wang, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Interplay between Cation and Anion Redox in Ni-Based Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Nano 15.8 (2021) 13360 - 13369. DOI

Jia, Lujie, Jian Wang, Shuaiyang Ren, Guoxi Ren, Xiang Jin, Licheng Kao, Xuefei Feng, Feipeng Yang, Qi Wang, Ludi Pan, Qingtian Li, Yi‐sheng Liu, Yang Wu, Gao Liu, Jun Feng, Shoushan Fan, Yifan Ye, Jinghua Guo, and Yuegang Zhang."Unraveling Shuttle Effect and Suppression Strategy in Lithium/Sulfur Cells by In Situ/Operando X‐ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS 4.2 (2021) 222 - 228. DOI

2020

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Qizhang Yan, Sicen Yu, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Lu Ma, Tongchao Liu, Matthew Li, Ruoqian Lin, Yiming Chen, Yejing Li, Xing Xing, Yoonjung Choi, Lucy Gao, Helen Sung-yun Cho, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Khalil Amine, Tianpin Wu, Jun Lu, Huolin L Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries."Nature 585.7823 (2020) 63 - 67. DOI

Zheng, Zhiming, Hong-Hui Wu, Haodong Liu, Qiaobao Zhang, Xin He, Sicen Yu, Victoria Petrova, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Ping Liu, Dong-Liang Peng, Meilin Liu, and Ming-Sheng Wang."Achieving Fast and Durable Lithium Storage through Amorphous FeP Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Ultrathin 3D P-Doped Porous Carbon Nanosheets."ACS Nano 14.8 (2020) 9545 - 9561. DOI

Pan, Yuelei, Xudong Cheng, Mengyao Gao, Yanbao Fu, Jun Feng, Lunlun Gong, Hoda Ahmed, Heping Zhang, and Vincent S Battaglia."Cagelike CoSe₂@N-Doped Carbon Aerogels with Pseudocapacitive Properties as Advanced Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Excellent Rate Performance and Cyclic Stability."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.30 (2020) 33621 - 33630. DOI

Pan, Yuelei, Xudong Cheng, Mengyao Gao, Yanbao Fu, Jun Feng, Hoda Ahmed, Lunlun Gong, Heping Zhang, and Vincent S Battaglia."Dual-Functional Multichannel Carbon Framework Embedded with CoS ₂Nanoparticles: Promoting the Phase Transformation for High-Loading Li–S Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.29 (2020) 32726 - 32735. DOI

Liu, Zhimeng, Xin He, Chen Fang, Luis E Camacho‐Forero, Yangzhi Zhao, Yanbao Fu, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Perla B Balbuena, Junhua Xhang, Jingxin Lei, and Gao Liu."Reversible Crosslinked Polymer Binder for Recyclable Lithium Sulfur Batteries with High Performance."Advanced Functional Materials 30.36 (2020) 2003605. DOI

2019

Su, Gregory M, Isvar A Cordova, Michael A Yandrasits, Matthew Lindell, Jun Feng, Cheng Wang, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Chemical and Morphological Origins of Improved Ion Conductivity in Perfluoro Ionene Chain Extended Ionomers."Journal of the American Chemical Society 141.34 (2019) 13547 - 13561. DOI

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Jason Huang, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Ruoqian Lin, Yejing Li, Sicen Yu, Xing Xing, Qizhang Yan, Xiangguo Li, Matthew J Frost, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Huolin L Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."Elucidating the Limit of Li Insertion into the Spinel Li ₄Ti ₅O ₁₂."ACS Materials Letters 1.1 (2019) 96 - 102. DOI

2018

Zhang, Liang, Min Ling, Jun Feng, Liqiang Mai, Gao Liu, and Jinghua Guo."The synergetic interaction between LiNO₃ and lithium polysulfides for suppressing shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries."Energy Storage Materials 11 (2018) 24 - 29. DOI

2017

LiangZhang, LiangZhang, Min Ling, Jun Feng, Gao Liu, and Jinghua Guo."Effective electrostatic confinement of polysulfides in lithium/sulfur batteries by a functional binder."Nano Energy 40 (2017) 559 - 565. DOI

Ling, Min, Liang Zhang, Tianyue Zheng, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Liqiang Mai, and Gao Liu."Nucleophilic substitution between polysulfides and binders unexpectedly stabilizing lithium sulfur battery."Nano Energy 38 (2017) 82 - 90. DOI