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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) 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.

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2020

Peng, Xiong, Zachary Taie, Jiangjin Liu, Yaqian Zhang, Xinxing Peng, Yagya N. Regmi, Julie C. Fornaciari, Christopher Capuano, Dustin Binny, Nancy N. Kariuki, Deborah J. Myers, Mary C. Scott, Adam Z. Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Hierarchical electrode design of highly efficient and stable unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs) for long-term energy storage."Energy & Environmental Science 13.12 (2020) 4872 - 4881. DOI

Regmi, Yagya N., Eden Tzanetopoulos, Guosong Zeng, Xiong Peng, Douglas I. Kushner, Tobias A. Kistler, Laurie A. King, and Nemanja Danilovic."Supported Oxygen Evolution Catalysts by Design: Toward Lower Precious Metal Loading and Improved Conductivity in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers."ACS Catalysis 10.21 (2020) 13125 - 13135. DOI

Tucker, Michael C.."Progress in metal-supported solid oxide electrolysis cells: A review."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45.46 (2020) 24203 - 24218. DOI

Weng, , Lien-Chun, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."A systematic analysis of Cu-based membrane-electrode assemblies for CO ₂ reduction through multiphysics simulation."Energy & Environmental Science 13.10 (2020) 3592-3606. DOI

2019

Luo, , Xiaoyan, Santiago Rojas-Carbonell, Yushan Yan, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Structure-transport relationships of poly(aryl piperidinium) anion-exchange membranes: Effect of anions and hydration."Journal of Membrane Science (2019) 117680. DOI

Weng, , Lien-Chun, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Towards membrane-electrode assembly systems for CO₂ reduction: a modeling study."Energy & Environmental Science 12.6 (2019) 1950 - 1968. DOI

Higgins, , Drew, Christopher Hahn, Chengxiang Xiang, Thomas F. Jaramillo, and Adam Z. Weber."Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm."ACS Energy Letters 4.1 (2019) 317 - 324. DOI

Kistler, , Tobias A., David Larson, Karl Walczak, Peter Agbo, Ian D. Sharp, Adam Z. Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Integrated Membrane-Electrode-Assembly Photoelectrochemical Cell under Various Feed Conditions for Solar Water Splitting."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.5 (2019) H3020 - H3028. DOI

2018

Weng, Lien-Chun, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Modeling gas-diffusion electrodes for CO ₂ reduction."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20.25 (2018) 16973 - 16984. DOI

Haishiba, Hiroshi, Lien-Chun Weng, YiKai Chen, Hiroki K. Sato, Satoshi Yotsuhashi, Chengxiang Xiang, and Adam Z. Weber."Effects of Electrolyte Buffer Capacity on Surface Reactant Species and the Reaction Rate of CO₂ in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122.7 (2018) 3719 - 3726. DOI

Bala Chandran, Rohini, Sasuke Breen, Yuanxun Shao, Shane Ardo, and Adam Z. Weber."Evaluating particle-suspension reactor designs for Z-scheme solar water splitting via transport and kinetic modeling."Energy & Environmental Science 11.1 (2018) 115 - 135. DOI

2017

Singh, Meenesh R., Jason D. Goodpaster, Adam Z. Weber, Martin Head-Gordon, and Alexis T. Bell."Mechanistic insights into electrochemical reduction of CO₂ over Ag using density functional theory and transport models."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.42 (2017) E8812 - E8821. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber."New Insights into Perfluorinated Sulfonic-Acid Ionomers."Chemical Reviews 117.3 (2017) 987 - 1104. DOI

2016

Stevens, John C., and Adam Z. Weber."A Computational Study of Optically Concentrating, Solar-Fuels Generators from Annual Thermal- and Fuel-Production Efficiency Perspectives."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 163.7 (2016) H475 - H484. DOI

2014

Singh, Meenesh R., John C. Stevens, and Adam Z. Weber."Design of Membrane-Encapsulated Wireless Photoelectrochemical Cells for Hydrogen Production."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.8 (2014) E3283 - E3296. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Michelle Calabrese, and Adam Z. Weber."Effect of Mechanical Compression on Chemical Degradation of Nafion Membranes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 3.5 (2014) F33 - F36. DOI