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)

2022

Shen, Hao, Kai Chen, Jiawei Kou, Zhanhui Jia, Nobumichi Tamura, Weibo Hua, Wei Tang, Helmut Ehrenberg, and Marca Doeff."Spatiotemporal mapping of microscopic strains and defects to reveal Li-dendrite-induced failure in all-solid-state batteries."Materials Today 57 (2022) 180 - 191. DOI

2020

Berlinger, Sarah A., Peter J. Dudenas, Ashley Bird, Xunkai Chen, Guillaume Freychet, Bryan D. McCloskey, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z. Weber."Impact of Dispersion Solvent on Ionomer Thin Films and Membranes."ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2.12 (2020) 5824 - 5834. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Wang Hay Kan, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Hao Shen, Kai Chen, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Distinct Surface and Bulk Thermal Behaviors of LiNi_0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂ Cathode Materials as a Function of State of Charge."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.10 (2020) 11643 - 11656. DOI

Shen, Hao, Eongyu Yi, Stephen Heywood, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Guoying Chen, Nobumichi Tamura, Stephen W. Sofie, Kai Chen, and Marca M. Doeff."Scalable Freeze-Tape-Casting Fabrication and Pore Structure Analysis of 3D LLZO Solid-State Electrolytes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.3 (2020) 3494 - 3501. DOI

2019

Shen, Hao, Eongyu Yi, Marco Amores, Lei Cheng, Nobumichi Tamura, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Guoying Chen, Kai Chen, and Marca M. Doeff."Oriented porous LLZO 3D structures obtained by freeze casting for battery applications."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.36 (2019) 20861 - 20870. DOI

Shen, Hao, Eongyu Yi, Marco Amores, Lei Cheng, Nobumichi Tamura, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Guoying Chen, Kai Chen, and Marca M. Doeff."Oriented porous LLZO 3D structures obtained by freeze casting for battery applications."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.36 (2019) 20861 - 20870. DOI

Wang, Dongdong, Michael Fina, Suhan Kim, Chunmei Zhang, Ting Zhang, Yonghong Deng, Kai Chen, Lijuan Liang, Samuel S. Mao, Andrew M. Minor, and Gao Liu."Trap-Assisted Charge Injection into Large Bandgap Polymer Semiconductors."Materials 12.15 (2019) 2427. DOI

Hwa, Yoon, Eongyu Yi, Hao Shen, Younghoon Sung, Jiawei Kou, Kai Chen, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Marca M. Doeff, and Elton J. Cairns."Three-Dimensionally Aligned Sulfur Electrodes by Directional Freeze Tape Casting."Nano Letters 19.7 (2019) 4731 - 4737. DOI

2018

Haishiba, Hiroshi, Lien-Chun Weng, YiKai Chen, Hiroki K. Sato, Satoshi Yotsuhashi, Chengxiang Xiang, and Adam Z. Weber."Effects of Electrolyte Buffer Capacity on Surface Reactant Species and the Reaction Rate of CO₂ in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122.7 (2018) 3719 - 3726. DOI

2016

Xiang, Chengxiang, Adam Z. Weber, Shane Ardo, Alan Berger, YiKai Chen, Robert Coridan, Katherine T. Fountaine, Sophia Haussener, Shu Hu, Riu Liu, Nathan S. Lewis, Miguel A. Modestino, Matthew M. Shaner, Meenesh R. Singh, John C. Stevens, Ke Sun, and Karl Walczak."Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices."Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55.42 (2016) 12974 - 12988. DOI