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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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Publications by Research Area

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)

2015

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI

Niu, Kai-Yang, Feng Lin, Liang Fang, Dennis Nordlund, Runzhe Tao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Marca M Doeff, and Haimei Zheng."Structural and Chemical Evolution of Amorphous Nickel Iron Complex Hydroxide upon Lithiation/Delithiation."Chemistry of Materials 27 (2015) 1583-1589. DOI

2014

Lin, Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Taijun Pan, Isaac M Markus, Tsu-Chien Weng, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Influence of synthesis conditions on the surface passivation and electrochemical behavior of layered cathode materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (2014) 19833-19840. DOI

Lin, Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Isaac M Markus, Tsu-Chien Weng, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Profiling the nanoscale gradient in stoichiometric layered cathode particles for lithium-ion batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 7.9 (2014) 3077-3085. DOI

Lin, Feng, Isaac M Markus, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Mark D Asta, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nature communications 5 (2014). DOI

Pascal, Tod A, Ulrike Boesenberg, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J Richardson, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Eamon McDermott, Alexander Moewes, Jordi Cabana, and David G Prendergast."Finite temperature effects on the X-ray absorption spectra of lithium compounds: First-principles interpretation of X-ray Raman measurements."The Journal of Chemical Physics 140.3 (2014). DOI

2012

Liu, Xiaosong, Jun Liu, Ruimin Qiao, Yan Yu, Hong Li, Liumin Suo, Yong-sheng Hu, Yi- De Chuang, Guojiun Shu, Fangcheng Chou, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yung J Wang, Hsin Lin, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, Xiangyun Song, Zhi Liu, Shishen Yan, Gao Liu, Shan Qjao, Thomas J Richardson, David G Prendergast, Zahid Hussain, Frank M.F de Groot, and Wanli Yang."Phase Transformation and Lithiation Effect on Electronic Structure of Li_xFePO₄: An In-Depth Study by Soft X-ray and Simulations."Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.33 (2012) 13708-13715. DOI