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)

2016

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Thomas J Dursch, and Adam Z Weber."Nanostructure/Swelling Relationships of Bulk and Thin-Film PFSA Ionomers."Advanced Functional Materials 26.27 (2016) 4961 - 4975. 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

Shi, Shouwen, Thomas J Dursch, Rodney L Borup, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Effect of Hygrothermal Ageing on PFSA Ionomers' Structure/Property Relationship."ECS Transactions 69.17 (2015) 1017 - 1025. 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

Dursch, Thomas J, Gregory J Trigub, J F Liu, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Non-isothermal melting of ice in the gas-diffusion layer of a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 67 (2013) 896-901. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J, Monica A Ciontea, Gregory J Trigub, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Pseudo-isothermal ice-crystallization kinetics in the gas-diffusion layer of a fuel cell from differential scanning calorimetry."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 60 (2013) 450 - 458. DOI

2012

Dursch, Thomas J, Monica A Ciontea, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Isothermal Ice Crystallization Kinetics in the Gas-Diffusion Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Langmuir 28.2 (2012) 1222 - 1234. DOI