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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.
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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

Besli, Münir M, Anantharaman Subbaraman, Farshad R.Pour Safaei, Christina Johnston, Gerhard Schneider, Nikhil Ravi, Jake Christensen, Yijin Liu, Marca M Doeff, Michael Metzger, and Saravanan Kuppan."A Study of Model‐Based Protective Fast‐Charging and Associated Degradation in Commercial Smartphone Cells: Insights on Cathode Degradation as a Result of Lithium Depositions on the Anode."Advanced Energy Materials 11.12 (2021) 2003019. 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

Alvarado, Judith, Chenxi Wei, Dennis Nordlund, Thomas Kroll, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yangchao Tian, Yijin Liu, and Marca M Doeff."Thermal stress-induced charge and structure heterogeneity in emerging cathode materials."Materials Today (2019). DOI

Besli, Münir M, Alpesh K Shukla, Chenxi Wei, Michael Metzger, Judith Alvarado, Julian Boell, Dennis Nordlund, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Christina Johnston, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Saravanan Kuppan."Thermally-driven mesopore formation and oxygen release in delithiated NCA cathode particles."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.20 (2019) 12593 - 12603. 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

Besli, Münir M, Sihao Xia, Saravanan Kuppan, Yiqing Huang, Michael Metzger, Alpesh K Shukla, Gerhard Schneider, Sondra Hellstrom, Jake Christensen, Marca M Doeff, and Yijin Liu."Mesoscale Chemomechanical Interplay of the LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ Cathode in Solid-State Polymer Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 31.2 (2019) 491 - 501. 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

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

Mu, Linqin, Qingxi Yuan, Chixia Tian, Chenxi Wei, Kai Zhang, Jin Liu, Piero Pianetta, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, and Feng Lin."Propagation topography of redox phase transformations in heterogeneous layered oxide cathode materials."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Mu, Linqin, Ruoqian Lin, Rong Xu, Lili Han, Sihao Xia, Dimosthenis Sokaras, James D Steiner, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Yijin Liu, Kejie Zhao, Huolin L Xin, and Feng Lin."Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials."Nano Letters 18.5 (2018) 3241 - 3249. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Dennis Nordlund, Feng Lin, Jin Liu, Zhihong Sun, Yijin Liu, and Marca M Doeff."Charge Heterogeneity and Surface Chemistry in Polycrystalline Cathode Materials."Joule 2.3 (2018) 464 - 477. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Dennis Nordlund, Huolin L Xin, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Feng Lin, and Marca M Doeff."Depth-Dependent Redox Behavior of LiNi _0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.3 (2018) A696 - A704. DOI

2017

Lin, Feng, Yijin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lei Cheng, Andrej Singer, Oleg G Shpyrko, Huolin L Xin, Nobumichi Tamura, Chixia Tian, Tsu-Chien Weng, Xiao-Qing Yang, Ying Shirley Meng, Dennis Nordlund, Wanli Yang, and Marca M Doeff."Synchrotron X-ray Analytical Techniques for Studying Materials Electrochemistry in Rechargeable Batteries."Chemical Reviews 117.21 (2017) 13123 - 13186. DOI

Kuppan, Saravanan, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, and Guoying Chen."Phase transformation mechanism in lithium manganese nickel oxide revealed by single-crystal hard X-ray microscopy."Nature Communications 8.1 (2017). DOI

2013

Boesenberg, Ulrike, Florian Meirer, Yijin Liu, Alpesh K Shukla, Rossana Dell’Anna, Tolek Tyliszczak, Guoying Chen, Joy C Andrews, Thomas J Richardson, Robert Kostecki, and Jordi Cabana."Mesoscale phase distribution in single particles of LiFePO₄ following lithium deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 25.9 (2013) 1664-1672. DOI

2011

Meirer, Florian, Jordi Cabana, Yijin Liu, Apurva Mehta, Joy C Andrews, and Piero Pianetta."3D imaging of Chemical Phase Transformations at the nanoscale with full field transmission X-Ray Microscopy."Synchrotron Radadiation 18.18 (2011) 773-781. DOI