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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) 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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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)

2020

Zou, Lianfeng, Yang He, Zhenyu Liu, Haiping Jia, Jian Zhu, Jianming Zheng, Guofeng Wang, Xiaolin Li, Jie Xiao, Jun Liu, Ji-Guang Zhang, Guoying Chen, and Chongmin Wang."Unlocking the passivation nature of the cathode–air interfacial reactions in lithium ion batteries."Nature Communications 11.1 (2020). DOI

2018

Hu, Jian Zhi, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Chuan Wan, Yuyan Shao, Xuchu Deng, Nicholas R. Jaegers, Mary Hu, Yingwen Chen, Yongwoo Shin, Joshua Monk, Zhong Chen, Zhaohai Qin, Karl Todd Mueller, Jun Liu, and Kristin A. Persson."25Mg NMR and computational modeling studies of the solvation structures and molecular dynamics in magnesium based liquid electrolytes."Nano Energy 46 (2018) 436 - 446. DOI

2017

Rajput, Nav Nidhi, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Yongwoo Shin, Kee Sung Han, Kah Chun Lau, Junzheng Chen, Jun Liu, Larry A. Curtiss, Karl T. Mueller, and Kristin A. Persson."Elucidating the Solvation Structure and Dynamics of Lithium Polysulfides Resulting from Competitive Salt and Solvent Interactions."Chemistry of Materials 29.8 (2017) 3375 - 3379. DOI

Han, Kee Sung, Junzheng Chen, Ruiguo Cao, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Lili Shi, Huilin Pan, Ji-Guang Zhang, Jun Liu, Kristin A. Persson, and Karl T. Mueller."Effects of Anion Mobility on Electrochemical Behaviors of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 29.21 (2017) 9023 - 9029. DOI

Pan, Huilin, Junzheng Chen, Ruiguo Cao, Vijay Murugesan, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Kee Sung Han, Kristin A. Persson, Luis Estevez, Mark H. Engelhard, Ji-Guang Zhang, Karl T. Mueller, Yi Cui, Yuyan Shao, and Jun Liu."Non-encapsulation approach for high-performance Li–S batteries through controlled nucleation and growth."Nature Energy 2.10 (2017) 813 - 820. DOI

2015

Shao, Yuyan, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Jianzhi Hu, Mary Hu, Tianbiao Liu, Zhehao Wei, Meng Gu, Xuchu Deng, Suochang Xu, Kee Sung Han, Jiulin Wang, Zimin Nie, Guosheng Li, Kevin R. Zavadil, Jie Xiao, Chongmin Wang, Wesley A. Henderson, Ji-Guang Zhang, Yong Wang, Karl T. Mueller, Kristin A. Persson, and Jun Liu."Nanocomposite polymer electrolyte for rechargeable magnesium batteries."Nano Energy 12 (2015) 750-759. DOI

2014

Gu, Meng, Xingcheng Xiao, Gao Liu, Suntharampillai Thevuthasan, Donald R. Baer, Ji-Guang Zhang, Jun Liu, Nigel D. Browning, and Chongmin Wang."Mesoscale Origin of the Enhanced Cycling-Stability of the Si-Conductive Polymer Anode for Li-ion Batteries."Scientific Reports 4 (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

2011

Xiao, Jie, Xiaojian Wang, Xiao-Qing Yang, Shidi Xun, Gao Liu, Phillip K. Koech, Jun Liu, and John P. Lemmon."Electrochemically Induced High Capacity Displacement Reaction of PEO/MoS₂/Graphene Nanocomposites with Lithium."Advanced Functional Materials 21 (2011) 2840-2846. DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E. Conry, Xiangyun Song, Li Yang, Marca M. Doeff, and Thomas J. Richardson."Spherical nanoporous LiCoPO₄/C composites as high performance cathode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 9984-9987. DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E. Conry, Xiangyun Song, Marca M. Doeff, and Thomas J. Richardson."Nanoporous spherical LiFePO₄ for high performance cathodes."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 885-888. DOI