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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 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.
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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 resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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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)

2012

Satish, Usha, B Brena, Krishnamurthy Shekhar, J Nordgren, Douglas P Sullivan, Y Luo, and Chung Yan Shih."Is CO₂ an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO₂ Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance."Environmental Health Perspectives 10 (2012). DOI

2005

Brena, B, Guorong V Zhuang, A Augustsson, Gao Liu, J Nordgren, Jinghua Guo, Philip N Ross, and Y Luo."Conformation dependence of electronic structures of poly(ethylene oxide)."Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (2005) 7907-7914. DOI

2003

Luo, Y, I Szafraniak, V Nagarajan, R.B Wehrspohn, M Steinhart, J.H Wendorff, N.D Zakharov, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M Alexe, LaFan D.A, Ayon A.A, Madou M.J, and McNie M.E."Ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate nanoshell tubes."Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 782 (2003) 415-420.

Luo, Y, I Szafraniak, V Nagarajan, R.B Wehrspohn, M Steinhart, J.H Wendorff, N.D Zakharov, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M Alexe."Ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate nanotubes."Integrated Ferroelectrics 59 (2003) 1513-1520. DOI

Morrison, F.D, Y Luo, I Szafraniak, V Nagarajan, R.B Wehrspohn, M Steinhart, J.H Wendorff, N.D Zakharov, E.D Mishina, K.A Vorotilov, A.S Sigov, S Nakabayashi, M Alexe, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F Scott."Ferroelectric nanotubes."Reviews on Advanced Materials Science 4 (2003) 114-122.

Steinhart, M, Y Luo, M Alexe, Z Jia, A.K Schaper, R.B Wehrspohn, J.H Wendorff, V Nagarajan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and U Gösele."Functionalized nanotubes by wetting of porous templates."VDI Berichte (2003) 161-164.

Luo, Y, I Szafraniak, N.D Zakharov, V Nagarajan, M Steinhart, R.B Wehrspohn, J.H Wendorff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M Alexe."Nanoshell tubes of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate."Applied Physics Letters 83 (2003) 440-442. DOI