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

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Evgeny Gorelov, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Electronic structure changes upon lithium intercalation into graphite – Insights from ex situ and operando x-ray Raman spectroscopy."Carbon 143 (2019) 371 - 377. DOI

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Evgeny Gorelov, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Electronic structure changes upon lithium intercalation into graphite – Insights from ex situ and operando x-ray Raman spectroscopy."Carbon 143 (2019) 371 - 377. DOI

2017

Liu, Gao, Thomas J Richardson, and Nikit Abhyankar."TEST: Sb–Cu–Li electrochromic mirrors."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 86.1 (2017) 113 - 121. DOI

2015

Park, Joong Sun, Lei Cheng, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Jung Hoon Park, Ji-Won Son, and Wan-Shick Hong."Effects of Crystallinity and Impurities on the Electrical Conductivity of Li-La-Zr-O Thin Films."Thin Solid Films 576 (2015) 55-60. DOI

2014

Lux, Simon F, Elad Pollak, Ulrike Boesenberg, Thomas J Richardson, and Robert Kostecki."Electrochemical reactivity of pyrolytic carbon film electrodes in organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications (2014). DOI

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

Wang, Bin, Thomas J Richardson, and Guoying Chen."Electroactive Polymer Fiber Separators for Stable and Reversible Overcharge Protection in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161 (2014) A1039-A1044. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Joong Sun Park, Huaming Hou, Vassilia Zorba, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Jordi Cabana, Richard E Russo, and Marca M Doeff."Effect of microstructure and surface impurity segregation on the electrical and electrochemical properties of dense Al-substituted Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.1 (2014) 172-181. DOI

Pascal, Tod A, Ulrike Boesenberg, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Eamon McDermott, Alexander Moewes, Jordi Cabana, and David G Prendergast."Finite temperature effects on the X-ray absorption spectra of lithium compounds: First-principles interpretation of X-ray Raman measurements."The Journal of Chemical Physics 140.3 (2014). DOI

2013

Doeff, Marca M, Guoying Chen, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J Richardson, Apurva Mehta, Mona Shirpour, Hugues Duncan, Chunjoong Kim, Kinson C Kam, and Thomas E Conry."Characterization of Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques."Journal of Visualized Experiments (2013). DOI

Wang, Bin, Thomas J Richardson, and Guoying Chen."Stable and high-rate overcharge protection for rechargeable lithium batteries."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 (2013) 6849-6855. DOI

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Florian Meirer, Yijin Liu, Alpesh K Shukla, Rossana Dell’Anna, Tolek Tyliszczak, Guoying Chen, Joy C Andrews, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Mesoscale phase distribution in single particles of LiFePO₄ following lithium deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 25.9 (2013) 1664-1672. DOI

Zhang, Liying, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, and Thomas J Richardson."Effect of lithium borate addition on the physical and electrochemical properties of the lithium ion conductor Li_3.4Si_0.4P_0.6O₄."Solid State Ionics 231 (2013) 109-115. DOI

Park, Jung Hoon, Wan-Shick Hong, Joong Sun Park, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, Yuyi Li, Thomas J Richardson, and Ji-Won Son."Aluminum Migration during Deposition of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ Thin Films on Aluminum Oxide Substrates."ECS Transactions 53.36 (2013) 1-4. DOI

Lux, Simon F, Ivan T Lucas, Julie S Chevalier, Thomas J Richardson, and Robert Kostecki."Time-Dependent Determination of HF Formation in LiPF₆-Containing Electrolytes in Different Cell Types by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry."ECS Transactions 50.1 (2013) 27-30. 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

2011

Garcia, Guillermo, Raffaella Buonsanti, Evan L Runnerstrom, Rueben J Mendelsberg, Anna Llordes, André Anders, Thomas J Richardson, and Delia J Milliron."Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals."Nano Letters 11.10 (2011) 4415 - 4420. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Alpesh K Shukla, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J Richardson."Improved kinetics and stabilities in Mg-substituted LiMnPO₄."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21.27 (2011) 10126-10133. DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E Conry, Xiangyun Song, Li Yang, Marca M Doeff, and Thomas J Richardson."Spherical nanoporous LiCoPO₄/C composites as high performance cathode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 9984-9987. DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E Conry, Xiangyun Song, Marca M Doeff, and Thomas J Richardson."Nanoporous spherical LiFePO₄ for high performance cathodes."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 885-888. DOI

Jeon, Ki-Joon, Zonghoon Lee, Elad Pollak, Luca Moreschini, Aaron Bostwick, Cheol-Min Park, Rueben J Mendelsberg, Velimir Radmilovic, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, and Eli Rotenberg."Fluorographene: a wide bandgap semiconductor with ultraviolet luminescence."ACS Nano 5.2 (2011) 1042-1046. DOI

2010

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Continuity and Performance in Composite Electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 195 (2010) 5387. DOI

Pollak, Elad, Baisong Geng, Ki-Joon Jeon, Ivan T Lucas, Thomas J Richardson, Feng Wang, and Robert Kostecki."The interaction of Li⁺ with single-layer and few-layer graphene."Nano letters 10.9 (2010) 3386-3388. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Junichi Shirakawa, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, and Clare P Grey."MAS NMR Study of the Metastable Solid Solution Found in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Chemistry of Materials 22.3 (2010) 1249-1262. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Thermal instability of Olivine-type LiMnPO₄ cathodes."Journal of Power Sources 195.4 (2010) 1221-1224. DOI