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

Li, , Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E. Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D. McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

2020

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Wang Hay Kan, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Hao Shen, Kai Chen, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Distinct Surface and Bulk Thermal Behaviors of LiNi_0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂ Cathode Materials as a Function of State of Charge."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.10 (2020) 11643 - 11656. DOI

2019

Chen, Dongchang, Wang Hay Kan, and Guoying Chen."Understanding Performance Degradation in Cation‐Disordered Rock‐Salt Oxide Cathodes."Advanced Energy Materials 9.31 (2019) 1901255. DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Chenxi Wei, Dongchang Chen, Tao Bo, Bao‐Tian Wang, Yan Zhang, Yangchao Tian, Jun‐Sik Lee, Yijin Liu, and Guoying Chen."Evolution of Local Structural Ordering and Chemical Distribution upon Delithiation of a Rock Salt–Structured Li_1.3Ta_0.3Mn_0.4O₂ Cathode."Advanced Functional Materials 29.17 (2019) 1808294. DOI

2018

Shin, Yongwoo, Wang Hay Kan, Muratahan Aykol, Joseph K. Papp, Bryan D. McCloskey, Guoying Chen, and Kristin A. Persson."Alleviating oxygen evolution from Li-excess oxide materials through theory-guided surface protection."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Biao Deng, Yahong Xu, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Tao Bo, Shuo Zhang, Jin Liu, Piero Pianetta, Bao-Tian Wang, Yijin Liu, and Guoying Chen."Understanding the Effect of Local Short-Range Ordering on Lithium Diffusion in Li_1.3Nb_0.3Mn_0.4O₂ Single-Crystal Cathode."Chem 4.9 (2018) 2108 - 2123. DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Dongchang Chen, Joseph K. Papp, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Ashfia Huq, Craig M. Brown, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Guoying Chen."Unravelling Solid-State Redox Chemistry in Li _1.3Nb _0.3Mn _0.4O ₂ Single-Crystal Cathode Material."Chemistry of Materials 30.5 (2018) 1655 - 1666. DOI

2017

Kan, Wang Hay, Saravanan Kuppan, Lei Cheng, Marca M. Doeff, Jagjit Nanda, Ashfia Huq, and Guoying Chen."Crystal Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Li _xMn _1.5Ni _0.5O ₄Solid Solution Cathode Materials."Chemistry of Materials 29.16 (2017) 6818 - 6828. DOI