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

Huang, Tzu‐Yang, Zijian Cai, Matthew J Crafton, Lori A Kaufman, Zachary M Konz, Helen K Bergstrom, Elyse A Kedzie, Han‐Ming Hao, Gerbrand Ceder, and Bryan D McCloskey."Quantitative Decoupling of Oxygen‐Redox and Manganese‐Redox Voltage Hysteresis in a Cation‐Disordered Rock Salt Cathode."Advanced Energy Materials 13.21 (2023). DOI

Konz, Zachary M, Brendan M Wirtz, Ankit Verma, Tzu-Yang Huang, Helen K Bergstrom, Matthew J Crafton, David E Brown, Eric J McShane, Andrew M Colclasure, and Bryan D McCloskey."High-throughput Li plating quantification for fast-charging battery design."Nature Energy 8.5 (2023) 450 - 461. DOI

Crafton, Matthew J, Tzu-Yang Huang, Yuan Yue, Raynald Giovine, Vincent C Wu, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey J Urban, Raphaële J Clément, Wei Tong, and Bryan D McCloskey."Tuning Bulk Redox and Altering Interfacial Reactivity in Highly Fluorinated Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15.15 (2023) 18747 - 18762. DOI

Huang, Liliang, Peichen Zhong, Yang Ha, Zijian Cai, Young‐Woon Byeon, Tzu‐Yang Huang, Yingzhi Sun, Fengyu Xie, Han‐Ming Hau, Haegyeom Kim, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Optimizing Li‐Excess Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Design Through Partial Li Deficiency."Advanced Energy Materials 13.4 (2023) 2202345. DOI

2022

Kaufman, Lori A, Tzu-Yang Huang, Donghun Lee, and Bryan D McCloskey."Particle Surface Cracking Is Correlated with Gas Evolution in High-Ni Li-Ion Cathode Materials."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.35 (2022) 39959 - 39964. DOI

2021

Yue, Yuan, Yang Ha, Tzu-Yang Huang, Ning Li, Linze Li, Qingtian Li, Jun Feng, Chongmin Wang, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Interplay between Cation and Anion Redox in Ni-Based Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Nano 15.8 (2021) 13360 - 13369. DOI

2020

Crafton, Matthew J, Yuan Yue, Tzu‐Yang Huang, Wei Tong, and Bryan D McCloskey."Anion Reactivity in Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Materials: The Influence of Fluorine Substitution."Advanced Energy Materials 10.35 (2020) 2001500. DOI

Jordan, Dirk C, Wei Luo, Anubhav Jain, Mashad U Saleh, Heidi von Korff, Yang Hu, Jean-Nicolas Jaubert, Fotis Mavromatakis, Chris Deline, Michael Deceglie, Ambarish Nag, Gregory M Kimball, Adam B Shinn, Jim J John, Aaesha A Alnuaimi, and Ammar B.A Elnosh."Reducing Interanalyst Variability in Photovoltaic Degradation Rate Assessments."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 10.1 (2020) 206 - 212. DOI