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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

Khomein, Piyachai, Tijs Lap, and Gao Liu."Synthesis of highly sulfonated 2,6-diphenyl-p-Phenylene oxide: A highly conductive membrane."Polymer 335 (2025) 128806. DOI

2023

Khomein, Piyachai, Young-Woon Byeon, Dongye Liu, Jin Yu, Andrew M Minor, Haegyeom Kim, and Gao Liu."Lithium Phosphorus Sulfide Chloride–Polymer Composite via the Solution–Precipitation Process for Improving Stability toward Dendrite Formation of Li-Ion Solid Electrolyte."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15.9 (2023) 11723-11730. DOI

2021

Lau, Jonathan, Joseph K Papp, Drew Lilley, Piyachai Khomein, Sumanjeet Kaur, Christopher Dames, Gao Liu, and Ravi S Prasher."Dynamic tunability of phase-change material transition temperatures using ions for thermal energy storage."Cell Reports Physical Science 2.10 (2021) 100613. DOI

Khomein, Piyachai, Asritha Nallapaneni, Jonathan Lau, Drew Lilley, Chenhui Zhu, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S Prasher, and Gao Liu."Random copolymer of poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether)methacrylate as tunable transition temperature solid-solid phase change material for thermal energy storage."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 225 (2021) 111030. DOI

Fang, Chen, Jonathan Lau, Dion Hubble, Piyachai Khomein, Eric A Dailing, Yi Liu, and Gao Liu."Large-Molecule Decomposition Products of Electrolytes and Additives Revealed by On-Electrode Chromatography and MALDI."Joule 5.2 (2021) 415 - 428. DOI

Park, Hyeokjun, Orapa Tamwattana, Jihyeon Kim, Sunisa Buakeaw, Rattiya Hongtong, Byunghoon Kim, Piyachai Khomein, Gao Liu, Nonglak Meethong, and Kisuk Kang."Probing Lithium Metals in Batteries by Advanced Characterization and Analysis Tools."Advanced Energy Materials 11.15 (2021) 2003039. DOI

Khomein, Piyachai, Wesley Ketelaars, Tijs Lap, and Gao Liu."Sulfonated aromatic polymer as a future proton exchange membrane: A review of sulfonation and crosslinking methods."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 137 (2021) 110471. DOI

2020

Fang, Chen, Zhimeng Liu, Jonathan Lau, Mahmoud Elzouka, Guangzhao Zhang, Piyachai Khomein, Sean D Lubner, Philip N Ross, and Gao Liu."Gradient Polarity Solvent Wash for Separation and Analysis of Electrolyte Decomposition Products on Electrode Surfaces."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.2 (2020) 020506. DOI