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

Katzenberg, Adlai, Andrea Angulo, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Miguel A Modestino."Impacts of Organic Sorbates on the Ionic Conductivity and Nanostructure of Perfluorinated Sulfonic-Acid Ionomers."Macromolecules 54.11 (2021) 5187 - 5195. DOI

2020

Katzenberg, Adlai, Anamika Chowdhury, Minfeng Fang, Adam Z Weber, Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Miguel A Modestino."Highly Permeable Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Ionomers for Improved Electrochemical Devices: Insights into Structure–Property Relationships."Journal of the American Chemical Society 142.8 (2020) 3742 - 3752. DOI

Katzenberg, Adlai, Debdyuti Mukherjee, Peter Dudenas, Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Miguel A Modestino."Dynamic Emergence of Nanostructure and Transport Properties in Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Ionomers."Macromolecules 53.19 (2020) 8519 - 8528. 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

2015

Allen, Frances I, Luis R Comolli, Ahmet Kusoglu, Miguel A Modestino, Andrew M Minor, and Adam Z Weber."Morphology of Hydrated As-Cast Nafion Revealed through Cryo Electron Tomography."ACS Macro Letters 4.1 (2015) 1 - 5. DOI

2013

Modestino, Miguel A, Devproshad K Paul, Shudipto Dishari, Stephanie A Petrina, Frances I Allen, Michael A Hickner, Kunal Karan, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z Weber."Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films."Macromolecules 46.3 (2013) 867 - 873. DOI

2012

Modestino, Miguel A, Ahmet Kusoglu, Alexander Hexemer, Adam Z Weber, and Rachel A Segalman."Controlling Nafion Structure and Properties via Wetting Interactions."Macromolecules 45.11 (2012) 4681 - 4688. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Miguel A Modestino, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z Weber."Subsecond Morphological Changes in Nafion during Water Uptake Detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering."ACS Macro Letters 1.1 (2012) 33 - 36. DOI