Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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

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)

2011

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, Paul L. Ridgway, Ji Q. Wang, and Vincent S. Battaglia."A comparative study of polyacrylic acid and poly (vinylidene difluoride) binders for spherical natural graphite/LiFePO₄ electrodes and cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.18 (2011) 7707-7714. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Alpesh K. Shukla, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J. Richardson."Improved kinetics and stabilities in Mg-substituted LiMnPO₄."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21.27 (2011) 10126-10133. 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

Xun, Shidi, Xiangyun Song, Michael E. Grass, Daniel K. Roseguo, Zhi Liu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Li."Improved Initial Performance of Si Nanoparticles by Surface Oxide Reduction for Lithium-Ion Battery Application."Electrochemical Solid-State Letters 14.5 (2011) A61-A63 . DOI

2010

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Paul L. Ridgway, Shidi Xun, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Cathode performance as a function of inactive material and void fractions."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157.10 (2010) A1060-A1066. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Paul L. Ridgway, Shidi Xun, and Vincent S. Battaglia."An Optimization of Electrode Energy and Power Density through of Variations in Inactive Material and Electrode Porosity."J. Elec. Chem (2010).

2009

Ridgway, Paul L., Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, Philip N. Ross, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Effect of Vinylene Carbonate on Graphite Anode Cycling Efficiency."Electrochemical Society 19.25 (2009) 51-57. DOI

Liu, Gao, Dacheng Zhao, Antoni P. Tomsia, Andrew M. Minor, Xiangyun Song, and Eduardo Saiz."Three-Dimensional Biomimetic Mineralization of Dense Hydrogel Templates."Journal of the American Chemical Society 131.29 (2009) 9937-9939. DOI

2008

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, S. Kim, Yonghong Deng, Andrew M. Minor, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Effects of Various Conductive Additive and Polymeric Binder Contents on the Performance of a Lithium-Ion Composite Cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.12 (2008) A887-A892. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Li[Ni_1/3Mn_1/3Co_1/3]O₂-based electrodes for PHEV applications: an optimization."ECS Transactions 11.32 (2008) 1-9. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L., Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Abdelbast Guerfi, Patrick Charest, Karim Zaghib, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Performance of Lithium Ion Cell Anode Graphites Under Various Cycling Conditions."ECS Trans. 13 (2008).

2007

Marcinek, Marek, Laurence J. Hardwick, Thomas J. Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nano-Structured Sn/C Composite Thin-Film anodes for Li-ion Batteries."Journal of Power Sources 173.2 (2007) 965-971. DOI

Chen, Y. H., C. W. Wang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Ann M. Sastry."Selection of Conductive Additives in Li-Ion Battery Cathodes A Numerical Study."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 154 (2007) A978-A986. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition of nano-composite C/Pt thin-films."Electrochemistry Communications 9.7 (2007) 1739-1743. DOI

Chen, Guoying, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J. Richardson."Metastable Solid-Solution Phases in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 154.7 (2007) A627-A632. DOI

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, Vincent S. Battaglia, Amanda S. Simens, Andrew M. Minor, and Xiangyun Song."Optimization of Acetylene Black Conductive Additive and Polyvinylidene Difluoride Composition for High Power Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Cells."ECS Transactions 6.14 (2007) 45-56. DOI

2006

Chen, Guoying, Xiangyun Song, and Thomas J. Richardson."Electron Microscopy Study of the LiFePO₄ to FePO₄ Phase Transition."Electroanalytical Chemistry 9 (2006) A295-A298. DOI

2005

Striebel, Kathryn A., Joongpyo Shim, Azucena Sierra, Hui Yang, Xiangyun Song, Robert Kostecki, and Kathryn McCarthy."The development of low cost LiFePO₄-based high power lithium-ion batteries."Journal of power sources 146.1 (2005) 33-38. DOI

2004

Zhuang, Guorong V., Guoying Chen, Joongpyo Shim, Xiangyun Song, Philip N. Ross, and Thomas J. Richardson."Li₂CO₃ in LiNi_0.8Co_0.15AI_0.05O₂ cathodes and its effects on capacity and power."Journal of power sources 134 (2004) 293-297. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A., Joongpyo Shim, Elton J. Cairns, Robert Kostecki, Young Joo Lee, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Thomas J. Richardson, Philip N. Ross, Xiangyun Song, and Guorong V. Zhuang."Diagnostic analysis of electrodes from high-power lithium-ion cells cycled under different conditions."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.6 (2004) A857-A866. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Laura Norin, Xiangyun Song, and Frank R. McLarnon."Diagnostic studies of polyolefin separators in high-power Li-ion cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A522-A526. DOI

2003

Song, Seung-Wan, Kathryn A. Striebel, Xiangyun Song, and Elton J. Cairns."Amorphous and nanocrystalline Mg₂Si thin-film electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 119-121 (2003) 110-112. DOI

2002

Shim, Joongpyo, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J. Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Kathryn A. Striebel."Electrochemical and physical analysis of a Li-ion cell cycled at elevated temperature."Journal of Power Sources 112.1 (2002) 222-230. DOI

2001

Kostecki, Robert, Xiangyun Song, Kim Kinoshita, and Frank R. McLarnon."Nanoscale fabrication and modification of selected battery materials."International Workshop on Electrochemical Systems: Interfaces, Phenomena, and Nanostructures in Lithium Batteries 2000 (2001) 175-183.