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)

2023

Qian, Ji, Yang Ha, Krishna Prasad Koirala, Di Huang, Zhi Huang, Vincent S. Battaglia, Chongmin Wang, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Toward Stable Cycling of a Cost‐Effective Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathode via Fluorination."Advanced Functional Materials 33.22 (2023). DOI

2019

Zhu, , Guobin, Yuanyuan Gu, Yan Wang, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, Qunting Qu, and Honghe Zheng."Suppressing the dry bed-lake fracture of silicon anode via dispersant modification in electrode processing."Electrochimica Acta 319 (2019) 682 - 689. 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

Wei, Chenxi, Yan Zhang, Sang-Jun Lee, Linqin Mu, Jin Liu, Chenxu Wang, Yang Yang, Marca M. Doeff, Piero Pianetta, Dennis Nordlund, Xi-Wen Du, Yangchao Tian, Kejie Zhao, Jun-Sik Lee, Feng Lin, and Yijin Liu."Thermally driven mesoscale chemomechanical interplay in Li _0.5 Ni _0.6Mn _0.2Co _0.2O ₂ cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6.45 (2018) 23055 - 23061. DOI

2017

Wang, , Yan, Yonghong Deng, Qunting Qu, Xueying Zheng, Jingyu Zhang, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."Ultrahigh-Capacity Organic Anode with High-Rate Capability and Long Cycle Life for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Energy Letters 2.9 (2017) 2140 - 2148. DOI

Hang, Bo, Antoine M. Snijders, Yurong Huang, Suzaynn F. Schick, Pin Wang, Yankai Xia, Christopher Havel, Peyton Jacob III, Neal L. Benowitz, Hugo Destaillats, Lara A. Gundel, and Jian-Hua Mao."Early exposure to thirdhand cigarette smoke affects body mass and the development of immunity in mice."Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 41915. DOI

2014

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

2013

Wang, Lei, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."SBR–PVDF based binder for the application of SLMP in graphite anodes."RSC Advances 3.35 (2013) 15022-15027. DOI