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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

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)

2019

Sun, T., L. Liu, M. G. Flanner, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, C. Jiao, Chelsea V. Preble, W. L. Chang, and T. C. Bond."Constraining a Historical Black Carbon Emission Inventory of the United States for 1960–2000."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124.7 (2019) 4004 - 4025. DOI

2017

Zhu, K.J., Gao Liu, Y.J Wang, J Liu, S. T. Li, L.Y. Yang, S.L. Liu, H. Wang, and T. Xie."Metal-Organic Frameworks derived novel hierarchical durian-like nickel sulfide (NiS₂) as an anode material for high-performance sodium-ion batteries."Materials Letters 197 (2017) 180 - 183. DOI

Li, Q., C.T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, A.R. Damodaran, L.-L. Li, A.K. Yadav, M. McCarter, L.W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.V. Kalinin."Quantification of flexoelectricity in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice polar vortices using machine learning and phase-field modeling."Nature Communications 8 (2017). DOI

2016

Sa, Niya, Hao Wang, Danielle L. Proffit, Albert L. Lipson, Baris Key, Miao Liu, Zhenxing Feng, Timothy T. Fister, Yang Ren, Cheng-Jun Sun, John T. Vaughey, Paul A. Fenter, Kristin A. Persson, and Anthony K. Burrell."Is alpha-V2O5 a cathode material for Mg insertion batteries?."Journal of Power Sources 323 (2016) 44 - 50. DOI

Liu, Z.Q., L. Li, Z. Gai, J.D. Clarkson, S.L. Hsu, A.T. Wong, L.S. Fan, M.-W. Lin, C.M. Rouleau, T.Z. Ward, H.N. Lee, A.S. Sefat, H.M. Christen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Full Electroresistance Modulation in a Mixed-Phase Metallic Alloy."Physical Review Letters 116 (2016). DOI

2014

Gao, P., J. Britson, C.T. Nelson, J.R. Jokisaari, C. Duan, M. Trassin, S.-H. Baek, H. Guo, L. Li, Y. Wang, Y.-H. Chu, A.M. Minor, C.-B. Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-Q. Chen, and X. Pan."Ferroelastic domain switching dynamics under electrical and mechanical excitations."Nature Communications 5 (2014). DOI

2010

Baek, S.H., H.W. Jang, C.M. Folkman, Y.L. Li, B. Winchester, J.X. Zhang, Q. He, Y.H. Chu, C.T. Nelson, M.S. Rzchowski, X.Q. Pan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.Q. Chen, and C.B. Eom."Ferroelastic switching for nanoscale non-volatile magnetoelectric devices."Nature Materials 9 (2010) 309-314. DOI

2008

Zhang, J.X., Y.L. Li, S. Choudhury, L.Q. Chen, Y.H. Chu, F. Zavaliche, M.P. Cruz, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Q.X. Jia."Computer simulation of ferroelectric domain structures in epitaxial BiFe O3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 103 (2008). DOI

2007

Zhang, J.X., Y.L. Li, Y. Wang, Z.K. Liu, L.Q. Chen, Y.H. Chu, F. Zavaliche, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of substrate-induced strains on the spontaneous polarization of epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 101 (2007). DOI

Zhang, J.X., Y.L. Li, D.G. Schlom, L.Q. Chen, F. Zavaliche, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Q.X. Jia."Phase-field model for epitaxial ferroelectric and magnetic nanocomposite thin films."Applied Physics Letters 90 (2007). DOI

2004

Chang, K.-S., M.A. Aronova, C.-L. Lin, M. Murakami, M.-H. Yu, J. R. Hattrick-Simpers, O.O. Famodu, S.Y. Lee, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Wuttig, I. Takeuchi, C. Gao, and L.A. Bendersky."Exploration of artificial multiferroic thin-film heterostructures using composition spreads."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 3091-3093. DOI

2000

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, William E. Kastenberg, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time — a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, William E. Kastenberg, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time -- a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Scheringer, Martin, Deborah H. Bennett, Thomas E. McKone, Konrad Hugerbuhler, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."Relationship between Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000) 52-63.