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

Lee, ChungHyuk, Xiaohua Wang, Jui-Kun Peng, Adlai Katzenberg, Rajesh K Ahluwalia, Ahmet Kusoglu, Siddharth Komini Babu, Jacob S Spendelow, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rodney L Borup."Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Cation Effects in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.31 (2022) 35555 - 35568. DOI

2021

Cullen, David A, K C Neyerlin, Rajesh K Ahluwalia, Rangachary Mukundan, Karren L More, Rodney L Borup, Adam Z Weber, Deborah J Myers, and Ahmet Kusoglu."New roads and challenges for fuel cells in heavy-duty transportation."Nature Energy (2021). DOI

2020

Borup, Rodney L, Ahmet Kusoglu, Kenneth C Neyerlin, Rangachary Mukundan, Rajesh K Ahluwalia, David A Cullen, Karren L More, Adam Z Weber, and Deborah J Myers."Recent developments in catalyst-related PEM fuel cell durability."Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 21 (2020) 192 - 200. DOI

2019

Pant, Lalit M, Michael R Gerhardt, Natalia Macauley, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, and Adam Z Weber."Along-the-channel modeling and analysis of PEFCs at low stoichiometry: Development of a 1+2D model."Electrochimica Acta 326 (2019) 134963. DOI

Pant, Lalit M, Michael R Gerhardt, Natalia Macauley, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, and Adam Z Weber."Along-the-channel modeling and analysis of PEFCs at low stoichiometry: Development of a 1+2D model."Electrochimica Acta 326 (2019) 134963. DOI

2018

Spernjak, Dusan, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, Liam G Connolly, Benjamin I Zackin, Vincent De Andrade, Michael Wojcik, Dilworth Y Parkinson, David L Jacobson, Daniel S Hussey, Karren L More, Thomas Chan, Adam Z Weber, and Iryna V Zenyuk."Enhanced Water Management of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Additive-Containing Microporous Layers."ACS Applied Energy Materials (2018). DOI

Steinbach, Andrew J, Jeffrey S Allen, Rodney L Borup, Daniel S Hussey, David L Jacobson, Andrei Komlev, Anthony Kwong, James C MacDonald, Rangachary Mukundan, Matt J Pejsa, Michael Roos, Anthony D Santamaria, James M Sieracki, Dusan Spernjak, Iryna V Zenyuk, and Adam Z Weber."Anode-Design Strategies for Improved Performance of Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Ultra-Thin Electrodes."Joule 2.7 (2018) 1297 - 1312. DOI

Mukundan, Rangachary, Andrew M Baker, Ahmet Kusoglu, Paul Beattie, Shanna Knights, Adam Z Weber, and Rodney L Borup."Membrane Accelerated Stress Test Development for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability Validated Using Field and Drive Cycle Testing."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.6 (2018) F3085 - F3093. DOI

2015

Shi, Shouwen, Thomas J Dursch, Colin Blake, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Impact of hygrothermal aging on structure/function relationship of perfluorosulfonic-acid membrane."Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 54.5 (2015) 570-581. DOI

2014

Weber, Adam Z, Rodney L Borup, Robert M Darling, Prodip K Das, Thomas J Dursch, Wenbin Gu, David Harvey, Ahmet Kusoglu, Shawn Litster, Matthew M Mench, Rangachary Mukundan, Jon P Owejan, Jon G Pharoah, Marc Secanell, and Iryna V Zenyuk."A Critical Review of Modeling Transport Phenomena in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.12 (2014) F1254 - F1299. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J, Gregory J Trigub, Roger Lujan, J F Liu, Rangachary Mukundan, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Ice-Crystallization Kinetics in the Catalyst Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.3 (2014) F199 - F207. DOI

2013

Hwang, Gisuk, Hyoungchul Kim, Roger Lujan, Rangachary Mukundan, Dusan Spernjak, Rodney L Borup, Massoud Kaviany, Moo Hwan Kim, and Adam Z Weber."Phase-change-related degradation of catalyst layers in proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells."Electrochimica Acta 95 (2013) 29 - 37. DOI

Fairweather, Joseph, Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z Weber, David Harvey, Silvia Wessel, Daniel S Hussey, David L Jacobson, Kateryna Artyushkova, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rodney L Borup."Effects of Cathode Corrosion on Through-Plane Water Transport in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) F980 - F993. DOI

2012

Hussey, Daniel S, Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z Weber, Rangachary Mukundan, Joseph Fairweather, Eric L Brosha, John Davey, Jacob S Spendelow, David L Jacobson, and Rodney L Borup."Accurate measurement of the through-plane water content of proton-exchange membranes using neutron radiography."Journal of Applied Physics 112.10 (2012) 104906. DOI

2011

Mukundan, Rangachary, Greg James, John Davey, Torraco Langlois, Wonseok Yoon, Adam Z Weber, and Rodney L Borup."Accelerated Testing Validation."ECS Trans. 41 (2011).