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)

2019

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

2012

Chen, Xiaobo, Can Li, Michael Grätzel, Robert Kostecki, and Samuel S Mao."Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage."Chemical Society Reviews 41.23 (2012) 7909-7937. DOI

2010

Ho, Tony, Samuel S Mao, and Ralph Greif."Improving efficiency of high-concentrator photovoltaics by cooling with two-phase forced convection."International Journal of Energy Research 34.14 (2010) 1257-1271. DOI

Braun, Artur, Bongjin S Mun, Yun Sun, Zhi Liu, Oliver Gröning, R Mäder, Selma Erat, Xueyuan Zhang, Samuel S Mao, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Kazimierz Conder, and Thomas Graule."Correlation of conductivity and angle integrated valence band photoemission characteristics in single crystal iron perovskites for 300 K < T < 800 K: Comparison of surface and bulk sensitive methods."Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 181.1 (2010) 56-62. DOI

Shen, Shaohua, Liejin Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Feng Ren, and Samuel S Mao."Effect of Ag₂S on solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of nanostructured CdS."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35.13 (2010) 7110-7115. DOI

Owens, Travis, Samuel S Mao, Erin K Canfield, Costas P Grigoropoulos, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Ultrafast thin-film laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of doped oxides."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C67-C69. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xiaobo Chen, and Samuel S Mao."Superhydrophilic TiO₂ surface without photocatalytic activation."Applied Physics Letters 96.9 (2010) 093702-093702. DOI

Li, Junjie, Xuan Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Richard Clinite, Samuel S Mao, Pengfei Zhu, Zhengming Sheng, Jie Zhang, and Jianming Cao."Ultrafast electron beam imaging of femtosecond laser-induced plasma dynamics."Journal of Applied Physics 107.8 (2010). DOI

Guo, Zeng-Shan, Lihua Zhao, Jian Pei, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Gary Gibson, James Brug, Sity Lam, and Samuel S Mao."CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticle Composites with Amine-Functionalized Polyfluorene Derivatives for Polymeric Light-Emitting Diodes: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and the Electroluminescent Performance."Macromolecules 43.4 (2010) 1860-1866. DOI

Barcelo, Steven J, and Samuel S Mao."High Throughput optical characterization of alloy hydrogenation."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).

Barcelo, Steven J, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology and its potential for aviation."Professional Pilots 44 (2010) 70.

Barcelo, Steven J, Matthew Rogers, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Storage property of sandwiched magnesium hydride naoparticle thin film."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).

2009

Boueri, Myriam, Matthieu Baudelet, Jin Yu, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Early stage expansion and time-resolved spectral emission of laser-induced plasma from polymer."Applied Surface Science 255.24 (2009) 9566-9571. DOI

Rogers, Matthew, Steven J Barcelo, Xiaobo Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Vincent Berube, Gang Chen, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Storage Characteristics of Nanograined Free-Standing Magnesium-Nickel Films."Applied Physics A 96.2 (2009) 349-352. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Laser Ablation of Organic Materials for discrimination of bacteria in an organic background."Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XIII 7214 (2009) 72140J. DOI

Liu, Deang, Michael Fina, Jinghua Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Gao Liu, Stephen G Johnson, and Samuel S Mao."Organic light-emitting diodes with carbon nanotube cathode-organic interface layer."Applied Physics Letters 94.1 (2009). DOI

Kronawitter, Coleman, and Samuel S Mao."Pulsed laser deposition of metal oxide photelectrodes for solar-driven hydrogen production: fabrication techniques."Proceddings of SPIE 7408 (2009).

2008

Lu, Quanming, Samuel S Mao, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Theory analysis of wavelength dependence of laser-induced phase explosion of silicon."Journal of Applied Physics 104.8 (2008) 083301-1-083301-7. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Yu Y Boueri, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Correlation Between early-stage expansion and spectral emission of nanosecond laser-induced plasma from organic material."SPIE 7005 (2008) 70050J-1-8.

2007

Liu, Deang, Michael Fina, Zhaoyang Chen, Xiaobo Chen, Gao Liu, Steven Johnson, and Samuel S Mao."Organic light-emitting diodes with structured cathode."Applied Physics Letters 91 (2007) 093514-1-3.

Ma, Zhixun, Todd Holden, Zhiming M Wang, Gregory J Salamo, Lyudmila Malikova, and Samuel S Mao."Strain-induced electronic energy changes in multilayered InGaAs/GaAs quantum wire structures."Journal of Applied Physics 101.4 (2007) 044305. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Samuel S Mao, Vincent Piscitelli, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Time-resolved ultraviolet laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for organic material analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 20 (2007) 1329-1334.

2006

Luo, Lei, Yanfeng Zhang, Samuel S Mao, and Liwei Lin."Fabrication and characterization of ZnO nanowires based UV photodiodes."Sensors and Actuators A: Physica 127.2 (2006) 201-206. DOI

2005

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Particle-size dependent chemistry from laser ablation of brass."Analytical Chemistry 77.20 (2005) 6687-6691. DOI

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser-Induced Shockwave Propagation from Ablation in a Cavity."Applied Physics Letters (2005).