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

2021

Fang, Chen, Jonathan Lau, Dion Hubble, Piyachai Khomein, Eric A Dailing, Yi Liu, and Gao Liu."Large-Molecule Decomposition Products of Electrolytes and Additives Revealed by On-Electrode Chromatography and MALDI."Joule 5.2 (2021) 415 - 428. DOI

2015

Xiao, Qiangfeng, Meng Gu, Hui Yang, Bing Li, Cunman Zhang, Yang Liu, Fang Liu, Fang Dai, Li Yang, Zhongyi Liu, Xingcheng Xiao, Gao Liu, Peng Zhao, Sulin Zhang, Chongmin Wang, Yunfeng Lu, and Mei Cai."Inward lithium-ion breathing of hierarchically porous silicon anodes."Nature Communications 6 (2015) 8844. DOI

Xiao, Xingcheng, Weidong Zhou, Youngnam Kim, Ill Ryu, Meng Gu, Chongmin Wang, Gao Liu, Zhongyi Liu, and Huajian Gao."Regulated Breathing Effect of Silicon Negative Electrode for Dramatically Enhanced Performance of Li-Ion Battery."Advanced Functional Materials 25.9 (2015) 1426 - 1433. DOI

2012

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Direct Real-Time Determination of Compositional Profiles in Structured Materials Using Laser Ablation Instruments: LIBS and LA-ICP-MS."Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology (2012). DOI

2010

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, John R Plumer, and Richard E Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in industrial and security applications."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C132-C142. DOI

2009

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Discrimination of complex substances with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Spectroscopy 24.10 (2009) 36-44.

2007

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Chunyi Liu, Sy-Bor Wen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Glass particles produced by laser ablation for ICP-MS measurements."Talanta 73.3 (2007) 577-582. DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Chunyi Liu, Sy-Bor Wen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Metal particles produced by laser ablation for ICP-MS measurements."Talanta 73.3 (2007) 567-576. DOI

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Expansion and radiative cooling of the laser induced plasma."Jourmal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 343-347. DOI

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Time resolved shadowgraph images of silicon during laser ablation: Shockwaves and Particle generation."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 338-342. DOI

2006

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Siv H Dundas, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."UV-femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS: internal and external repeatability."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 21.8 (2006) 778-784. DOI

2005

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Particle-size dependent chemistry from laser ablation of brass."Analytical Chemistry 77.20 (2005) 6687-6691. DOI

Liu, Chunyi."A study of particle generation during laser ablation with applications." (2005).

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Chunyi Liu, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Double-pulse laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 60 (2005) 27-31.

Russo, Richard E, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Chunyi Liu."Laser ablation: LIBS and ICP-MS."LabPlus International September (2005).

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, and Richard E Russo."Study of particle size influence on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using an in-line cascade impactor."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 20 (2005) 200-203.

2004

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Jhanis J Gonzalez."Laser assisted plasma spectrometry: Laser Ablation."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 1084-1089.

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Xianzhong Zeng, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation of brass: Particulate and ICPMS measurements."Analytical Chemistry 76 (2004) 379-383.

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."UV-femtosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS for analysis of alloys samples."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 19 (2004) 1165-1168.

2003

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser-induced plasmas in micromachined fused silica cavities."Appl.Phys.Lett. 83 (2003) 240-242.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Samuel S Mao, Chunyi Liu, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Plasma diagnostics during laser ablation in a cavity."Spectrochim.Acta Pt.B-At.Spec. 58 (2003) 867-877.