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)

2021

Zhong, Haoxiang, Yangzhi Zhao, Ting Zhang, and Gao Liu."Controlled Lithium Deposition on Alq ₃ Coated Substrate."Batteries & Supercaps 4.1 (2021) 5 - 5. DOI

Wang, Jin, Ting Zhang, Zijia Xu, Guo Ai, Wei Yue, Kehua Dai, Bo Zhang, Dejun Li, Shaohua yang, Jingbo Zhang, Gao Liu, and Wenfeng Mao."Insights into the Dynamic Catalytic Effect of Metal Sulfides with Prominent Lithiation Process in the Application of Li–S Batteries."ACS Applied Energy Materials 3.11 (2021) 11131 - 11141. DOI

2019

Ai, Guo, Qianqian Hu, Liang Zhang, Kehua Dai, Jin Wang, Zijia Xu, Yu Huang, Bo Zhang, Dejun Li, Ting Zhang, Gao Liu, and Wenfeng Mao."Investigation of the Nanocrystal CoS₂ Embedded in 3D Honeycomb-like Graphitic Carbon with a Synergistic Effect for High-Performance Lithium Sulfur Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11.37 (2019) 33987 - 33999. DOI

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

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

2018

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

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

2015

Jia, Zhe, Hui Zhao, Ying Bai, Ting Zhang, Amanda S Lupinacci, Andrew M Minor, and Gao Liu."Solvent processed conductive polymer with single-walled carbon nanotube compositesAbstract."Journal of Materials Research 30.22 (2015) 3403 - 3411. DOI