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

Wang, Yan, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, and Corinne D. Scown."Co-Processing Agricultural Residues and Wet Organic Waste Can Produce Lower-Cost Carbon-Negative Fuels and Bioplastics."Environmental Science & Technology (2023). DOI

2021

Wang, Yan, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D. Scown."Tree-Based Automated Machine Learning to Predict Biogas Production for Anaerobic Co-digestion of Organic Waste."ACS Sustainable Chem. 9.38 (2021) 12990–13000. DOI

2020

Shan, Xiaojian, Zhang Cao, Guobin Zhu, Yan Wang, Qunting Qu, Gao Liu, and Honghe Zheng."A trimethylol melamine functionalized polyvinyl alcohol network for high performance nano-silicon anodes."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.45 (2020) 26029 - 26038. DOI

2019

Guo, , Ruitian, Yan Wang, Shuai Heng, Guobin Zhu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."Pyromellitic dianhydride: A new organic anode of high electrochemical performances for lithium ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 436 (2019) 226848. DOI

Heng, Shuai, Yan Wang, Qunting Qu, Ruitian Guo, Xiaojian Shan, Vincent S. Battaglia, Gao Liu, and Honghe Zheng."Fluoro-Ether as a Bifunctional Interphase Electrolyte Additive with Graphite/LiNi_0.5Co _0.2Mn_0.3O₂ Full Cell."ACS Applied Energy Materials 2.9 (2019) 6404 - 6416. DOI

Zheng, Xueying, Qiang Shi, Yan Wang, Vincent S. Battaglia, Yunhui Huang, and Honghe Zheng."The role of carbon bond types on the formation of solid electrolyte interphase on graphite surfaces."Carbon 148 (2019) 105 - 114. DOI

2018

Wang, Yan, Xueying Zheng, Qunting Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."A novel maleic acid/graphite composite anode for lithium ion batteries with high energy and power density."Carbon 132 (2018) 420 - 429. DOI

2017

Wang, Yan, Qunting Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."Aluminum fumarate-based metal organic frameworks with tremella-like structure as ultrafast and stable anode for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Energy 39 (2017) 200 - 210. DOI

Heng, Shuai, Qiang Shi, Xueying Zheng, Yan Wang, Qunting Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."An organic-skinned secondary coating for carbon-coated LiFePO₄ cathode of high electrochemical performances."Electrochimica Acta 258 (2017) 1244 - 1253. DOI

Shi, Qiang, Weijie Liu, Qunting Qu, Tian Gao, Yan Wang, Gao Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Honghe Zheng."Robust solid/electrolyte interphase on graphite anode to suppress lithium inventory loss in lithium-ion batteries."Carbon 111 (2017) 291 - 298. DOI