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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2025

Jin, Xiuyu, Ziting Zhu, Qiusu Miao, Chen Fang, Di Huang, Raynald Giovine, Linfeng Chen, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey Urban, Yanbao Fu, Defu Li, Katie Liu, Yunfei Wang, Tianyu Zhu, Chenhui Zhu, Wei Tong, and Gao Liu."Green Electrode Processing Enabled by Fluoro‐Free Multifunctional Binders for Lithium‐Ion Batteries."Advanced Science 12.17 (2025). DOI

Yang, Lin, Peng Peng, Nathaniel Weger, Sarah Mills, Clément Messeri, Akanksha K Menon, Steven Zeltmann, Finn Babbe, Qiye Zheng, Chaochao Dun, Chuan Zhang, Jeffrey J Urban, Andrew M Minor, Ravi S Prasher, Hanna Breunig, and Sean D Lubner."Self-Heating Conductive Ceramic Composites for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage."ACS Energy Letters (2025) 1002-1012. DOI

Chen, Linfeng, Chenyang Li, Sahand Adibnia, Sizhuo Yang, Jialu Li, Erika Samolova, Andrew Dopilka, Zhiyuan Huang, Raynald Giovine, Xander B Fleming, Jinghua Guo, Andrew Z Haddad, Robert Kostecki, Wei Chen, Chaochao Dun, and Jeffrey J Urban."Ultraselective sequestration of Li ⁺ and Mg ²⁺ from brines via a reusable polyoxoniobate-based ion sponge."Science Advances 11.49 (2025). DOI

Theibault, Monica, Dennis Nordlund, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey Urban, Wei Tong, and Marca M Doeff."Understanding the Mn dissolution mechanism in rock salt-type Li₄Mn₂O₅ cathodes."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13.26 (2025) 21009-21020. DOI

2024

Dun, Chaochao, Xinyi Wang, Linfeng Chen, Sichi Li, Hanna Breunig, and Jeffrey J Urban."Nano-enhanced solid-state hydrogen storage: Balancing discovery and pragmatism for future energy solutions."Nano Research (2024). DOI

2023

Crafton, Matthew J, Tzu-Yang Huang, Yuan Yue, Raynald Giovine, Vincent C Wu, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey J Urban, Raphaële J Clément, Wei Tong, and Bryan D McCloskey."Tuning Bulk Redox and Altering Interfacial Reactivity in Highly Fluorinated Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15.15 (2023) 18747 - 18762. DOI

2020

Bui, Ngoc T, Hyungmook Kang, Simon J Teat, Gregory M Su, Chih-Wen Pao, Yi-Sheng Liu, Edmond W Zaia, Jinghua Guo, Jeng-Lung Chen, Katie R Meihaus, Chaochao Dun, Tracy M Mattox, Jeffrey R Long, Peter Fiske, Robert Kostecki, and Jeffrey J Urban."A nature-inspired hydrogen-bonded supramolecular complex for selective copper ion removal from water."Nature Communications 11.1 (2020). DOI