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)

2017

Zheng, Tianyue, Zhe Jia, Na Lin, Thorsten Langer, Simon Lux, Isaac Lund, Ann-Christin Gentschev, Juan Qiao, and Gao Liu."Molecular Spring Enabled High-Performance Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries."Polymers 9.12 (2017) 657. DOI

Lin, Na, Zhe Jia, Zhihui Wang, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Xiangyun Song, Ying Bai, Vincent S Battaglia, Chengdong Sun, Juan Qiao, Kai Wu, and Gao Liu."Understanding the crack formation of graphite particles in cycled commercial lithium-ion batteries by focused ion beam - scanning electron microscopy."Journal of Power Sources 365 (2017) 235 - 239. DOI

2016

Zhao, Hui, Yanbao Fu, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Xiangyun Song, Zonghai Chen, Jun Lu, Khalil Amine, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder-Enabled SiO–Sn_x Co_yC_zAnode for High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.21 (2016) 13373 - 13377. DOI

2015

Feng, Caihong, Le Zhang, Menghuan Yang, Xiangyun Song, Hui Zhao, Zhe Jia, Kening Sun, and Gao Liu."One-Pot Synthesis of Copper Sulfide Nanowires/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites with Excellent Lithium-Storage Properties as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.29 (2015) 15726 - 15734. DOI

Jia, Zhe, Hui Zhao, Ying Bai, Ting Zhang, Amanda S Lupinacci, Andrew M Minor, and Gao Liu."Solvent processed conductive polymer with single-walled carbon nanotube compositesAbstract."Journal of Materials Research 30.22 (2015) 3403 - 3411. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Yang Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Chenhui Zhu, Ziyan Zheng, Min Ling, Zhe Jia, Ying Bai, Yanbao Fu, Jinglei Lei, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, Phillip B Messersmith, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder for High-Tap-Density Nanosilicon Material for Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrode Application."Nano Letters 15.12 (2015) 7927 - 7932. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Zhe Jia, Wen Yuan, Heyi Hu, Yanbao Fu, Gregory L Baker, and Gao Liu."Fumed Silica-Based Single-Ion Nanocomposite Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.34 (2015) 19335 - 19341. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Fadi Asfour, Yanbao Fu, Zhe Jia, Wen Yuan, Ying Bai, Min Ling, Heyi Hu, Gregory L Baker, and Gao Liu."Plasticized Polymer Composite Single-Ion Conductors for Lithium Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.34 (2015) 19494 - 19499. DOI

Bai, Ying, Yang Tang, Zhihui Wang, Zhe Jia, Feng Wu, Chuan Wu, and Gao Liu."Electrochemical performance of Si/CeO₂/Polyaniline composites as anode materials for lithium ion batteries."Solid State Ionics 272 (2015) 24 - 29. DOI

Bai, Ying, Xingzhen Zhou, Zhe Jia, Chuan Wu, Liwei Yang, Mizi Chen, Hui Zhao, Feng Wu, and Gao Liu."Understanding the combined effects of microcrystal growth and band gap reduction for Fe_(1−x)Ti_xF₃ nanocomposites as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Energy 17 (2015) 140 - 151. DOI

2014

Deng, Yonghong, Wen Yuan, Zhe Jia, and Gao Liu."H-and J-aggregation of Fluorene-based Chromophores."The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118 (2014) 14536-14545. DOI