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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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2010

Zorba, Vassilia, Xiaobo Chen, and Samuel S Mao."Superhydrophilic TiO₂ surface without photocatalytic activation."Applied Physics Letters 96.9 (2010) 093702-093702. DOI

Ong, Shyue P, Anubhav Jain, Geoffroy Hautier, Byoungwoo Kang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Thermal stabilities of delithiated olivine MPO₄ (M=Fe, Mn) cathodes investigated using first principles calculations."Electrochemistry Communications 12.3 (2010) 427-430. DOI

Li, Junjie, Xuan Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Richard Clinite, Samuel S Mao, Pengfei Zhu, Zhengming Sheng, Jie Zhang, and Jianming Cao."Ultrafast electron beam imaging of femtosecond laser-induced plasma dynamics."Journal of Applied Physics 107.8 (2010). DOI

Walker, Iain S."Ventilating Existing Homes in the US."Air Infiltration Review 31.2 (2010).

Pollak, Elad, Ivan T Lucas, and Robert Kostecki."A study of lithium transport in aluminum membranes."Electrochemistry Communications 12.2 (2010) 198-201. DOI

Guo, Zeng-Shan, Lihua Zhao, Jian Pei, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Gary Gibson, James Brug, Sity Lam, and Samuel S Mao."CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticle Composites with Amine-Functionalized Polyfluorene Derivatives for Polymeric Light-Emitting Diodes: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and the Electroluminescent Performance."Macromolecules 43.4 (2010) 1860-1866. DOI

Gifford, William, Shawn Bodmann, Paul Young, Joseph H Eto, and Jeremy Laundergan."Customer Impact Evaluation for the 2009 Southern California Edison Participating Load Pilot." (2010) 34.

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

Cabana, Jordi, Costana M Ionica-Bousquet, Clare P Grey, and M. M Rosa Palacín."High rate performance of lithium manganese nitride and oxynitride as negative electrodes in lithium batteries."Electrochemistry Communications 12 (2010) 315-318. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A."Intelligent Alarms Criteria and Thresholds Summary." (2010).

Destaillats, Hugo, and William J Fisk."Investigation of IAQ-Relevant Surface Chemistry and Emissions on HVAC Filter Materials." (2010).

Zeng, Dongli, Jordi Cabana, Won-Sub Yoon, and Clare P Grey."Investigation of the Structural Changes in Li[Ni_yMn_yCo_{(1- 2y)}]O₂ (y=0.05) upon Electrochemical Lithium Deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 22 (2010) 1209-1219. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Junichi Shirakawa, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, and Clare P Grey."MAS NMR Study of the Metastable Solid Solution Found in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Chemistry of Materials 22.3 (2010) 1249-1262. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Thermal instability of Olivine-type LiMnPO₄ cathodes."Journal of Power Sources 195.4 (2010) 1221-1224. DOI

McMillan, W. W Wallace, R. R Bradley Pierce, Lynn C Sparling, Gregory Osterman, Kevin McCann, Marc L Fischer, Bernhard Rappenglueck, Rob K Newsom, David D Turner, Chieko Kittaka, Keith Evans, Sebastien C Biraud, Barry Lefer, Arlyn E Andrews, and Samuel J Oltmans."An observational and modeling strategy to investigate the impact of remote sources on local air quality: A Houston, Texas, case study from the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS II)."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 115.D1 (2010). DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study (2010).

Goldman, Charles A, Michael Reid, Roger Levy, and Alison Silverstein."Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response." (2010) 74.

Tucker, Michael C, Grace Y Lau, Craig P Jacobson, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Cu–YSZ cermet solid oxide fuel cell anode prepared by high-temperature sintering."Journal of Power Sources 195.10 (2010) 3119 - 3123. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, K Sydny Fujita, Aimee T McKane, Junqiao Han Dudley, Anthony Radspieler Jr, KC Mares, and Dave Shroyer."Demand Response and Open Automated Demand Response Opportunities for Data Centers." (2010) 56.

Persson, Kristin A, Vijay A Sethuraman, Laurence J Hardwick, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, Venkat Srinivasan, Robert Kostecki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Lithium diffusion in graphitic carbon."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1.8 (2010) 1176-1180. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L Ridgway, and John S Newman."Mathematical Modeling of CO₂ Reduction to CO in Aqueous Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157.12 (2010) B1902. DOI

Fisk, William J, Douglas P Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and Hwataik Han."Measuring Outdoor Air Intake Rates into Existing Building-Final Report." (2010).

Spanakis, Emmanuel, Marios Barberoglou, Vassilia Zorba, Panagiotis Tzanetakis, and Costas Fotakis."Metal coated silicon spike cold-electron emitters show improvement of performance with operation."Applied Physics Letters 96.3 (2010). DOI

Menon, Surabi, Hashem Akbari, Sarith Mahanama, Igor Sednev, and Ronnen M Levinson."Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedos and associated CO₂ offsets."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

Bolinger, Mark."Revealing the Hidden Value that the Federal Investment Tax Credit and Treasury Cash Grant Provide To Community Wind Projects." (2010) 36.