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.

Ji Su

Materials Research Scientist/Engineer

(510) 289-0813

JiSu@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Ji-Su

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Bio

Bio

Ji Su’s lab is built based on Somorjai Research Group and studies heterogeneous catalysis for energy & environment relevant chemical conversions. Specifically, lab research activities focus on novel catalyst design and development, surface chemistry, and catalytic applications for hydrogen production and storage, CO₂ capture and conversion, natural gas, plastics, and biomass conversion. The research in Su group is sponsored by DOE and industrial partner.

Dr. Ji Su holds B.S. from Dalian Polytechnic University. Next, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Catalysis Chemistry and Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. Dr. Su continued his postdoctoral research in heterogeneous catalysis at University of Nevada, Reno, then at Chemical Sciences Division of LBNL. Dr. Su was a project scientist at The Molecular Foundry. Now, Dr. Su is a Material Staff Scientist at Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division (ESDR).

Journal and Editorial Board Memberships

Surface Science and Technology, Editorial Board