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)

2009

Lee, Zonghoon, Ki-Joon Jeon, Albert Dato, Rolf Erni, Thomas J. Richardson, Michael Frenklach, and Velimir Radmilovic."Direct Imagining of Soft-hard Interfaces Enabled by Graphene."NanoLetters 9.9 (2009) 3365-3369. 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

Dato, Albert, Zonghoon Lee, Ki-Joon Jeon, Velimir Radmilovic, Thomas J. Richardson, and Michael Frenklach."Clean and Highly-Ordered Graphene Synthesized in the Gas-Phase."Chemical Communications (2009) 6095-6097. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Improving the Performance of Lithium Manganese Phosphate."Journal of Electrochemical Society (2009).

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Solid Solution Phases in Olivine-Type LiMnPO₄/MnPO₄ System."Journal of Electrochemical Society 156.9 (2009) A756-A762. DOI

2008

Chen, Guoying, James D. Wilcox, and Thomas J. Richardson."Improving the performance of lithium manganese phosphate through divalent cation substitution."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 11.11 (2008) A190-A194. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J.."Phase transitions in non-hydride switchable mirror thin films."Phase Transitions 81.7-8 (2008) 807 - 813. DOI

Anders, André, Jonathan L. Slack, and Thomas J. Richardson."Electrochromically switched, gas-reservoir metal hydride devices with application to energy-efficient windows."Thin Solid Films 1 (2008).

Richardson, Thomas J.."Overcharge Protection Shuttles for Lithium Ion Batteries."Journal of Electrochemical Society (2008).

2007

Richardson, Thomas J., and Guoying Chen."Solid solution lithium alloy cermet anodes."Journal of Power Sources 174 (2007) 810-812. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, Laurence J. Hardwick, Thomas J. Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nano-Structured Sn/C Composite Thin-Film anodes for Li-ion Batteries."Journal of Power Sources 173.2 (2007) 965-971. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J. Richardson."Metastable Solid-Solution Phases in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 154.7 (2007) A627-A632. DOI

2006

Chen, Guoying, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J. Richardson."Electron Microscopy Study of the LiFePO₄ to FePO₄ Phase Transition."Electroanalytical Chemistry 9 (2006) A295-A298. DOI

Slack, Jonathan L., James C.W. Locke, Seung-Wan Song, Jason Ona, and Thomas J. Richardson."Metal hydride switchable mirrors: Factors influencing dynamic range and stability."Solor Energy MaterialsSolar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 90.4 (2006) 485-490. DOI

2005

Chen, Guoying, Karen E. Thomas-Alyea, John S. Newman, and Thomas J. Richardson."Characterization of an electroactive polymer for overcharge protection in secondary lithium batteries."Electrochimica Acta 50.24 (2005) 4666-4673. DOI

Liu, Gao, and Thomas J. Richardson."Sb-Cu-Li electrochromic mirrors."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 86 (2005) 113-121. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Guorong V. Zhuang, Thomas J. Richardson, Gao Liu, and Philip N. Ross."Anodic polymerization of vinyl ethylene carbonate in Li-ion battery electrolyte."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 8.7 (2005) A344-A347. DOI

Parkhutik, Vitali, Eugenia Matveeva, Yuri Makushok, Emilio Rayon, and Thomas J. Richardson."Optical and Electrical Properties of Mg/Ni Alloy Subjected to Electrochemical Hydrogenation."The Electrochemical Society 152.12 (2005) H209-H212. DOI

2004

Dolle, Mickaël, Joel Hollingsworth, Thomas J. Richardson, and Marca M. Doeff."Investigation of layered intergrowth Li_xM_yMn_1-yO_2+z (M= Ni, Co, Al) compounds as positive electrodes for Li-ion batteries."Solid State Ionics 175 (2004) 225-228. DOI

Doeff, Marca M., Thomas J. Richardson, and Kwang-Taek Hwang."Electrochemical and structural characterization of titanium-substituted manganese oxides based on Na_0.44MnO₂."Journal of Power Sources 135 (2004) 240-248. DOI

Zhuang, Guorong V., Guoying Chen, Joongpyo Shim, Xiangyun Song, Philip N. Ross, and Thomas J. Richardson."Li₂CO₃ in LiNi_0.8Co_0.15AI_0.05O₂ cathodes and its effects on capacity and power."Journal of power sources 134 (2004) 293-297. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A., Joongpyo Shim, Elton J. Cairns, Robert Kostecki, Young Joo Lee, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Thomas J. Richardson, Philip N. Ross, Xiangyun Song, and Guorong V. Zhuang."Diagnostic analysis of electrodes from high-power lithium-ion cells cycled under different conditions."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.6 (2004) A857-A866. DOI

Thomas-Alyea, Karen E., John S. Newman, Guoying Chen, and Thomas J. Richardson."Modeling the behavior of electroactive polymers for overcharge protection of lithium batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A509-A521. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Overcharge protection for rechargeable lithium batteries using electroactive polymers."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 7.2 (2004) A23-A26. DOI

2003

Richardson, Thomas J., and Jonathan L. Slack."Lithium-Based Electrochromic Mirrors."203rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (2003).