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)

2022

Xiao, Haiqing, Chen Fang, Tianyue Zheng, Hua Bai, and Gao Liu."Investigation of SiOx anode fading mechanism with limited capacity cycling."APL Materials 10.1 (2022) 011108. DOI

2019

Zheng, Tianyue, Ting Zhang, Mauricio Solis de la Fuente, and Gao Liu."Aqueous emulsion of conductive polymer binders for Si anode materials in lithium ion batteries."European Polymer Journal 114 (2019) 265 - 270. DOI

Xiao, Haiqing, Tianyue Zheng, Gao Liu, Hongwei Wang, Hong Bai, Yanling Fu, Ziqiang Tao, Nianpeng Si, and Hua Bai."Study on the Fading Mechanism of SiO-based Anodes Using Styrene Butadiene Rubber and Carboxymethyl Cellulose as Binders for Lithium-ion Batteries."IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 242 (2019) 042014. DOI

2018

Liu, Gao, Shuo Zhou, Guixin Wang, Kangping Yan, Tianyue Zheng, and Theodoros E Matikas."Stress monitoring of lithiuim ion cells during cycling to correlate with the electrochemical processes."Smart Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation for Energy Systems IVSmart Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation for Energy Systems IV (2018). DOI

Fang, Shan, Ning Li, Tianyue Zheng, Yanbao Fu, Xiangyun Song, Ting Zhang, Shaopeng Li, Bin Wang, Xiaogang Zhang, and Gao Liu."Highly Graphitized Carbon Coating on SiO with a π–π Stacking Precursor Polymer for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries."Polymers 10.6 (2018) 610. DOI

2017

Zheng, Tianyue, Zhe Jia, Na Lin, Thorsten Langer, Simon Lux, Isaac Lund, Ann-Christin Gentschev, Juan Qiao, and Gao Liu."Molecular Spring Enabled High-Performance Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries."Polymers 9.12 (2017) 657. DOI

Ling, Min, Michael Liu, Tianyue Zheng, Ting Zhang, and Gao Liu."Investigating the Doping Mechanism of Pyrene Based Methacrylate Functional Conductive Binder in Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.4 (2017) A545 - A548. DOI

Ling, Min, Liang Zhang, Tianyue Zheng, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Liqiang Mai, and Gao Liu."Nucleophilic substitution between polysulfides and binders unexpectedly stabilizing lithium sulfur battery."Nano Energy 38 (2017) 82 - 90. DOI