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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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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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Huang, Tzu‐Yang, Zijian Cai, Matthew J. Crafton, Lori A. Kaufman, Zachary M. Konz, Helen K. Bergstrom, Elyse A. Kedzie, Han‐Ming Hao, Gerbrand Ceder, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Quantitative Decoupling of Oxygen‐Redox and Manganese‐Redox Voltage Hysteresis in a Cation‐Disordered Rock Salt Cathode."Advanced Energy Materials 13.21 (2023). DOI

Konz, Zachary M., Brendan M. Wirtz, Ankit Verma, Tzu-Yang Huang, Helen K. Bergstrom, Matthew J. Crafton, David E. Brown, Eric J. McShane, Andrew M. Colclasure, and Bryan D. McCloskey."High-throughput Li plating quantification for fast-charging battery design."Nature Energy 8.5 (2023) 450 - 461. DOI

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

Zak, Joshua J., Mateusz J. Zuba, Zachary W. Lebens-Higgins, Heran Huang, Matthew J. Crafton, Nathan F. Dalleska, Bryan D. McCloskey, Louis F.J. Piper, and Kimberly A. See."Irreversible Anion Oxidation Leads to Dynamic Charge Compensation in the Ru-Poor, Li-Rich Cathode Li2Ru0.3Mn0.7O3."ACS Energy Letters 8.1 (2023) 722 - 730. DOI

2022

He, Xin, Jue Wu, Zhuoying Zhu, Haodong Liu, Ning Li, Dong Zhou, Xu Hou, Jun Wang, Haowei Zhang, Dominic Bresser, Yanbao Fu, Matthew J. Crafton, Bryan D. McCloskey, Yan Chen, Ke An, Ping Liu, Anubhav Jain, Jie Li, Wanli Yang, Yong Yang, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."Chemical and structural evolutions of Li–Mn-rich layered electrodes at different current densities."Energy & Environmental Science 15.10 (2022) 4137 - 4147. DOI

2021

Satish, Rohit, Lennart Wichmann, Matthew J. Crafton, Raynald Giovine, Linze Li, Juhyeon Ahn, Yuan Yue, Wei Tong, Guoying Chen, Chongmin Wang, Raphaële J. Clément, and Robert Kostecki."Exposure History and its Effect Towards Stabilizing Li Exchange Across Disordered Rock Salt Interfaces."ChemElectroChem 8.20 (2021) 3982 - 3991. DOI

Huang, Jianping, Peichen Zhong, Yang Ha, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Matthew J. Crafton, Yaosen Tian, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Bryan D. McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Non-topotactic reactions enable high rate capability in Li-rich cathode materials."Nature Energy 6.7 (2021) 706 - 714. DOI

2020

Crafton, Matthew J., Yuan Yue, Tzu‐Yang Huang, Wei Tong, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Anion Reactivity in Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Materials: The Influence of Fluorine Substitution."Advanced Energy Materials 10.35 (2020) 2001500. DOI

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