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, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Luo, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi-den Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li₂MnO₃: Li–CO₂ batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Liu, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi- de Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li2MnO3: Li–CO2 batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

2018

Zhao, Hui, Yang Wei, Cheng Wang, Ruimin Qiao, Wanli Yang, Phillip B Messersmith, and Gao Liu."Mussel-Inspired Conductive Polymer Binder for Si-Alloy Anode in Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10.6 (2018) 5440 - 5446. DOI

Xu, Jing, Meiling Sun, Ruimin Qiao, Sara E Renfrew, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Sooyeon Hwang, Dennis Nordlund, Dong Su, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Elucidating anionic oxygen activity in lithium-rich layered oxides."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

2016

Mao, Jing, Kehua Dai, Minjie Xuan, Guosheng Shao, Ruimin Qiao, Wanli Yang, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Effect of Chromium and Niobium Doping on the Morphology and Electrochemical Performance of High-Voltage Spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Cathode Material."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.14 (2016) 9116 - 9124. DOI

2015

Zhao, Hui, Yang Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Chenhui Zhu, Ziyan Zheng, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Ying Bai, Yanbao Fu, Jinglei Lei, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, Phillip B Messersmith, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder for High-Tap-Density Nanosilicon Material for Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrode Application."Nano Letters 15.12 (2015) 7927 - 7932. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI

2014

Cheng, Lei, Ethan J Crumlin, Chen Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Hou Huaming, Simon F Lux, Vassilia Zorba, Richard E Russo, Robert Kostecki, Zhi Liu, Kristin A Persson, Wanli Yang, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J Richardson, Guoying Chen, and Marca M Doeff."The origin of high electrolyte–electrode interfacial resistances in lithium cells containing garnet type solid electrolytes."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16.34 (2014) 18294-18300. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Ivan T Lucas, Altaf Karim, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, Xiaosong Liu, Wei Chen, Kristin A Persson, Robert Kostecki, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Solid-Electrolyte-Interphases on Sn (100) and (001) Electrodes Studied by Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy."Advanced Materials Interfaces (2014). DOI

2013

Tahir, Nadeem, Altaf Karim, Kristin A Persson, Syed T Hussain, Alejandro G Cruz, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Naeem, Ruimin Qiao, Wanli Yang, and Yi- De Chuang."Surface Defects: Possible Source of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Co-Doped ZnO Nanorods."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117.17 (2013) 8968-8973. DOI

2012

Liu, Xiaosong, Jun Liu, Ruimin Qiao, Yan Yu, Hong Li, Liumin Suo, Yong-sheng Hu, Yi- De Chuang, Guojiun Shu, Fangcheng Chou, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yung J Wang, Hsin Lin, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, Xiangyun Song, Zhi Liu, Shishen Yan, Gao Liu, Shan Qjao, Thomas J Richardson, David G Prendergast, Zahid Hussain, Frank M.F de Groot, and Wanli Yang."Phase Transformation and Lithiation Effect on Electronic Structure of Li_xFePO₄: An In-Depth Study by Soft X-ray and Simulations."Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.33 (2012) 13708-13715. DOI