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.
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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)

2015

Zhao, Hui, Yang Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Chenhui Zhu, Ziyan Zheng, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Ying Bai, Yanbao Fu, Jinglei Lei, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, Phillip B Messersmith, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder for High-Tap-Density Nanosilicon Material for Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrode Application."Nano Letters 15.12 (2015) 7927 - 7932. DOI

Ai, Guo, Yiling Dai, Yifan Ye, Wenfeng Mao, Zhihui Wang, Hui Zhao, Yulin Chen, Junfa Zhu, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Jinghua Guo, Venkat Srinivasan, and Gao Liu."Investigation of surface effects through the application of the functional binders in lithium sulfur batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 28-37. DOI

Mao, Wenfeng, Yanbao Fu, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Yiling Dai, Dechao Meng, Xin-he Zhang, Deyang Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Zhi-yuan Tang."Rational Design and Facial Synthesis of Li₃V₂(PO₄)₃@C Nanocomposites Using Carbon with Different Dimensions for Ultrahigh-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 12057-12066. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xiangyun Song, Xiaosong Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Manipulating the polarity of conductive polymer binders for Si-based anodes in lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3.7 (2015) 3651 - 3658. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Na_0.44MnO₂ with very fast sodium diffusion and stable cycling synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone-combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 285 (2015) 161 - 168. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Zhihui Wang, Guo Ai, Hui Zhao, Wen Yuan, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Chengdong Sun, Kai Wu, and Gao Liu."The transformation of graphite electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries after cycling."Journal of Power Sources 298 (2015) 349 - 354. DOI

2014

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Michael C Tucker, Markus Ding, Paul L Ridgway, Vincent S Battaglia, Venkat Srinivasan, and Adam Z Weber."Cyclic Performance Analysis of Hydrogen/Bromine Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage."ChemPlusChem 80.2 (2014) 402 - 411. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Zhihui Wang, Peng Lu, Meng Jiang, Feifei Shi, Xiangyun Song, Ziyang Zheng, Xin Zhou, Yanbao Fu, Guerfi Abdelbast, Xingcheng Xiao, Zhi Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, Karim Zaghib, and Gao Liu."Toward practical application of functional conductive polymer binder for a high-energy lithium-ion battery design."Nano Letters 14 (2014) 6704–6710. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Xin Zhou, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Min Ling, Neslihan Yuca, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."A polymerized vinylene carbonate anode binder enhances performance of lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 288-295. DOI

Yuca, Neslihan, Hui Zhao, Xiangyun Song, Murat F Dogdu, Wen Yuan, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Xingcheng Xiao, and Gao Liu."A Systematic Investigation of Polymer Binder Flexibility on the Electrode Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (2014) 17111-17118. DOI

Zheng, Ziyan, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Shidi Xun, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Biomimetic Nanostructuring of Copper Thin Films Enhances Adhesion to the Negative Electrode Laminate in Lithium-Ion Batteries."ChemSusChem 7 (2014) 2853-2858. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Hui Zhao, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Toward high specific capacity and high cycling stability of pure tin nanoparticles with conductive polymer binder for sodium ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 263 (2014) 276-279. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yanbao Fu, Zhengcheng Zhang, Shengwen Yuan, Khalil Amine, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Application of Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP®) in graphite anode – A high efficient prelithiation method for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 260 (2014) 57 - 61. DOI

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Jingping Zhang, Xiangyun Song, Haiming Xie, Vincent S Battaglia, and Rongshun Wang."Li₃PO₄-Coated LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄: A Stable High-Voltage Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Chemistry - A European Journal 20.24 (2014) 7479-7485. DOI

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Zhihui Wang, Yuliang Zhang, Xiangyun Song, James Murowchick, Vincent S Battaglia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Amorphous carbon-coated TiO₂ nanocrystals for improved lithium-ion battery and photocatalytic performance."Nano Energy 6 (2014) 109-118. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yulin Chen, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Improving the performance of lithium–sulfur batteries using conductive polymer and micrometric sulfur powder."Journal of Materials Research 29.09 (2014) 1027-1033. DOI

Wong, Dominica H. C, Jacob L Thelen, Yanbao Fu, Didier H Devaux, Ashish A Pandya, Vincent S Battaglia, Nitash P Balsara, and Joseph M DeSimone."Nonflammable perfluoropolyether-based electrolytes for lithium batteries."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.9 (2014) 3327 - 3331. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zitao Li, Yuchun Zhai, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Microsized single-crystal spinel LAMO for high-power lithium ion batteries synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 248 (2014) 22-27. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L Ridgway, Venkat Srinivasan, and Vincent S Battaglia."Measurements and Simulations of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of a Three-Electrode Coin Cell Design for Li-Ion Cell Testing."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.9 (2014) A1253 - A1260. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Sang-Jae Park, Feifei Shi, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Philip N Ross, and Gao Liu."Propylene Carbonate (PC)-Based Electrolytes with High Coulombic Efficiency for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161.1 (2014) A194-A200. DOI

2013

Wu, Mingyan, Julian E. C Sabisch, Xiangyun Song, Andrew M Minor, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."In Situ Formed Si Nanoparticle Network with Micron-Sized Si Particles for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes."Nano Letters 13 (2013) 5397-5402. DOI

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Paul Albertus, Vincent S Battaglia, Aleksandar Kojic, Venkat Srinivasan, and Adam Z Weber."Optimization and Analysis of High-Power Hydrogen/Bromine-Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage."Energy Technology 1.10 (2013) 596 - 608. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xingcheng Xiao, Nenad Vukmirovic, Shidi Xun, Prodip K Das, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Dongdong Wang, Adam Z Weber, Lin-Wang Wang, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Toward an Ideal Polymer Binder Design for High-Capacity Battery Anodes."J Am Chem Soc 135.32 (2013) 12048-56. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Bin Xiang, Andrew M Minor, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer and Silicon Composite Secondary Particles for a High Area-Loading Negative Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) A1380-A1383. DOI