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)

2021

Jia, Lujie, Jian Wang, Shuaiyang Ren, Guoxi Ren, Xiang Jin, Licheng Kao, Xuefei Feng, Feipeng Yang, Qi Wang, Ludi Pan, Qingtian Li, Yi‐sheng Liu, Yang Wu, Gao Liu, Jun Feng, Shoushan Fan, Yifan Ye, Jinghua Guo, and Yuegang Zhang."Unraveling Shuttle Effect and Suppression Strategy in Lithium/Sulfur Cells by In Situ/Operando X‐ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS 4.2 (2021) 222 - 228. DOI

2013

Song, Min-Kyu, Yuegang Zhang, and Elton J. Cairns."A long-life, high-rate lithium/sulfur cell: a multifaceted approach to enhancing cell performance."Nano Letters 13 (2013) 5891-5899. DOI

Song, Min-Kyu, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Lithium/sulfur batteries with high specific energy: old challenges and new opportunities."Nanoscale 5 (2013) 2186-2204. DOI

2012

Cai, Kunpeng, Min-Kyu Song, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Nanostructured Li₂S–C composites as cathode material for high-energy lithium/sulfur batteries."Nano Letters 12 (2012) 6474-6479. DOI

Zhang, Liang, Elad Pollak, Wei-Cheng Wang, Peng Jiang, Per-Anders Glans, Yuegang Zhang, Jordi Cabana, Robert Kostecki, Chinglin Chang, Miquel Salmeron, Junfa Zhu, and Jinghua Guo."Electronic structure study of ordering and interfacial interaction in graphene/Cu composites."Carbon 50.14 (2012) 5316-5322. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Huolin L. Xin, Tevye R. Kuykendall, Shao-Ling Wu, Haimei Zheng, Mumin Rao, Elton J. Cairns, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."SnS₂ nanoparticle loaded graphene nanocomposites for superior energy storage."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14.19 (2012) 6981-6986. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Honghe Zheng, Ariel Ismach, Zhongkui Tan, Shidi Xun, Eric Lin, Vincent S. Battaglia, Venkat Srinivasan, and Yuegang Zhang."Graphene/Si multilayer structure anodes for advanced half and full lithium-ion cells."Nano Energy 1.1 (2012) 164-171. DOI

2011

Ji, Liwen, Mumin Rao, Haimei Zheng, Liang Zhang, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan, Jinghua Guo, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Graphene oxide as a sulfur immobilizer in high performance lithium/sulfur cells."Journal of the American Chemical Society 133.46 (2011) 18522-18525. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Mumin Rao, Shaul Aloni, Lei Wang, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Porous carbon nanofiber–sulfur composite electrodes for lithium/sulfur cells."Energy & Environmental Science 4.12 (2011) 5053-5059. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Zhongkui Tan, Tevye R. Kuykendall, Eun J. An, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."Multilayer nanoassembly of Sn-nanopillar arrays sandwiched between graphene layers for high-capacity lithium storage."Energy & Environmental Science 4.9 (2011) 3611-3616. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Zhongkui Tan, Tevye R. Kuykendall, Shaul Aloni, Shidi Xun, Eric Lin, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."Fe₃O₄ nanoparticle-integrated graphene sheets for high-performance half and full lithium ion cells."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13.15 (2011) 7170-7177. DOI