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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.
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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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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)

2022

Lee, Seung-Yong, Junyi Shangguan, Sophia Betzler, Stephen J. Harris, Marca M. Doeff, and Haimei Zheng."Lithium metal stripping mechanisms revealed through electrochemical liquid cell electron microscopy."Nano Energy 102 (2022) 107641. DOI

Barim, Gözde, Rohan Dhall, Elisabetta Arca, Tevye R. Kuykendall, Wei Yin, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Esther S. Takeuchi, Amy C. Marschilok, and Marca M. Doeff."Heterostructured Lepidocrocite Titanate-Carbon Nanosheets for Electrochemical Applications."ACS Applied Nano Materials 5.1 (2022) 678 - 690. DOI

2020

Alvarado, Judith, Gözde Barim, Calvin D. Quilty, Eongyu Yi, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Esther S. Takeuchi, Amy C. Marschilok, and Marca M. Doeff."Optimization of nonatitanate electrodes for sodium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8.38 (2020) 19917 - 19926. 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

Alvarado, Judith, Chenxi Wei, Dennis Nordlund, Thomas Kroll, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yangchao Tian, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Thermal stress-induced charge and structure heterogeneity in emerging cathode materials."Materials Today (2019). DOI

Pan, Taijun, Judith Alvarado, Jian Zhu, Yuan Yue, Huolin L. Xin, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, and Marca M. Doeff."Structural Degradation of Layered Cathode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries Induced by Ball Milling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.10 (2019) A1964 - A1971. 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

Shen, Hao, Eongyu Yi, Lei Cheng, Marco Amores, Guoying Chen, Stephen W. Sofie, and Marca M. Doeff."Solid-state electrolyte considerations for electric vehicle batteries."Sustainable Energy & Fuels 3.7 (2019) 1647 - 1659. DOI

Besli, Münir M., Alpesh K. Shukla, Chenxi Wei, Michael Metzger, Judith Alvarado, Julian Boell, Dennis Nordlund, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Christina Johnston, Jake Christensen, Marca M. Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Saravanan Kuppan."Thermally-driven mesopore formation and oxygen release in delithiated NCA cathode particles."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.20 (2019) 12593 - 12603. DOI

Besli, Münir M., Camille Usubelli, Michael Metzger, Sondra Hellstrom, Sami Sainio, Dennis Nordlund, Jake Christensen, Gerhard Schneider, Marca M. Doeff, and Saravanan Kuppan."Long-term chemothermal stability of delithiated NCA in polymer solid-state batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.47 (2019) 27135 - 27147. DOI

Besli, Münir M., Sihao Xia, Saravanan Kuppan, Yiqing Huang, Michael Metzger, Alpesh K. Shukla, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Jake Christensen, Marca M. Doeff, and Yijin Liu."Mesoscale Chemomechanical Interplay of the LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ Cathode in Solid-State Polymer Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 31.2 (2019) 491 - 501. DOI

2018

Cheng, Lei, Miao Liu, Apurva Mehta, Huolin L. Xin, Feng Lin, Kristin A. Persson, Guoying Chen, Ethan J. Crumlin, and Marca M. Doeff."Garnet Electrolyte Surface Degradation and Recovery."ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.12 (2018) 7244 - 7252. DOI

Wei, Chenxi, Yan Zhang, Sang-Jun Lee, Linqin Mu, Jin Liu, Chenxu Wang, Yang Yang, Marca M. Doeff, Piero Pianetta, Dennis Nordlund, Xi-Wen Du, Yangchao Tian, Kejie Zhao, Jun-Sik Lee, Feng Lin, and Yijin Liu."Thermally driven mesoscale chemomechanical interplay in Li _0.5 Ni _0.6Mn _0.2Co _0.2O ₂ cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6.45 (2018) 23055 - 23061. DOI

Mu, Linqin, Qingxi Yuan, Chixia Tian, Chenxi Wei, Kai Zhang, Jin Liu, Piero Pianetta, Marca M. Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Feng Lin."Propagation topography of redox phase transformations in heterogeneous layered oxide cathode materials."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Mu, , Linqin, Ruoqian Lin, Rong Xu, Lili Han, Sihao Xia, Dimosthenis Sokaras, James D. Steiner, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M. Doeff, Yijin Liu, Kejie Zhao, Huolin L. Xin, and Feng Lin."Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials."Nano Letters 18.5 (2018) 3241 - 3249. DOI

Takeuchi, Esther S., and Marca M. Doeff."An Argument for Basic Battery Science: Each Time an Application Demands a New Battery Chemistry To Achieve Previously Unrealized Functionality, a New Fundamental Understanding Is Required."Accounts of Chemical Research 51.3 (2018) 573 - 574. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, Jin Liu, Zhihong Sun, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Charge Heterogeneity and Surface Chemistry in Polycrystalline Cathode Materials."Joule 2.3 (2018) 464 - 477. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Dennis Nordlund, Huolin L. Xin, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Feng Lin, and Marca M. Doeff."Depth-Dependent Redox Behavior of LiNi _0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.3 (2018) A696 - A704. DOI

Rettenwander, Daniel, Reinhard Wagner, Andreas Reyer, Maximilian Bonta, Lei Cheng, Marca M. Doeff, Andreas Limbeck, Martin Wilkening, and Georg Amthauer."Interface Instability of Fe-Stabilized Li₇La ₃Zr₂O₁₂ versus Li Metal."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122.7 (2018) 3780 - 3785. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Feng Lin, and Marca M. Doeff."Electrochemical Characteristics of Layered Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries: Surface, Bulk Behavior, and Thermal Properties."Accounts of Chemical Research 51.1 (2018) 89 - 96. DOI

2017

Yi, Tanghong, Wei Chen, Lei Cheng, Ryan D. Bayliss, Feng Lin, Michael R. Plews, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M. Doeff, Kristin A. Persson, and Jordi Cabana."Investigating the Intercalation Chemistry of Alkali Ions in Fluoride Perovskites."Chemistry of Materials 29.4 (2017) 1561 - 1568. DOI

Lin, Feng, Yijin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lei Cheng, Andrej Singer, Oleg G. Shpyrko, Huolin L. Xin, Nobumichi Tamura, Chixia Tian, Tsu-Chien Weng, Xiao-Qing Yang, Ying Shirley Meng, Dennis Nordlund, Wanli Yang, and Marca M. Doeff."Synchrotron X-ray Analytical Techniques for Studying Materials Electrochemistry in Rechargeable Batteries."Chemical Reviews 117.21 (2017) 13123 - 13186. DOI

Ludwig, Jennifer, Stephan Geprägs, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M. Doeff, and Tom Nilges."Co ₁₁ Li[(OH) ₅O][(PO ₃OH)(PO ₄) ₅], a Lithium-Stabilized, Mixed-Valent Cobalt(II,III) Hydroxide Phosphate Framework."Inorganic Chemistry 56.18 (2017) 10950 - 10961. DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Saravanan Kuppan, Lei Cheng, Marca M. Doeff, Jagjit Nanda, Ashfia Huq, and Guoying Chen."Crystal Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Li _xMn _1.5Ni _0.5O ₄Solid Solution Cathode Materials."Chemistry of Materials 29.16 (2017) 6818 - 6828. DOI

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