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)

2016

He, Min, Zhihui Wang, Xiaodong Yan, Lihong Tian, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Hydrogenation effects on the lithium ion battery performance of TiOF₂."Journal of Power Sources 306 (2016) 309 - 316. DOI

2015

Yan, Xiaodong, ZhihuiWang, Min He, Zhaohui Hou, Ting Xia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."TiO₂ Nanomaterials as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries."Energy Technology 3.8 (2015) 801 - 814. DOI

2014

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Zhihui Wang, Yuliang Zhang, Xiangyun Song, James Murowchick, Vincent S. Battaglia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Amorphous carbon-coated TiO₂ nanocrystals for improved lithium-ion battery and photocatalytic performance."Nano Energy 6 (2014) 109-118. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yuliang Zhang, Ting Xia, James Murowchick, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Lithium-Ion Battery Performance of (001)-Faceted TiO₂ Nanosheets vs. Spherical TiO₂ Nanoparticles."Energy Technology 2.4 (2014) 376-382. DOI

2013

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Wenjing Li, Nathan A. Oyler, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Hydrogenated surface disorder enhances lithium ion battery performance."Nano Energy 2.5 (2013) 826-835. DOI

2012

Chen, Xiaobo, Can Li, Michael Grätzel, Robert Kostecki, and Samuel S. Mao."Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage."Chemical Society Reviews 41.23 (2012) 7909-7937. DOI

2010

Shen, Shaohua, Liejin Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Feng Ren, and Samuel S. Mao."Effect of Ag₂S on solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of nanostructured CdS."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35.13 (2010) 7110-7115. DOI

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

2009

Rogers, Matthew, Steven J. Barcelo, Xiaobo Chen, Thomas J. Richardson, Vincent Berube, Gang Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S. Mao."Hydrogen Storage Characteristics of Nanograined Free-Standing Magnesium-Nickel Films."Applied Physics A 96.2 (2009) 349-352. DOI

Liu, Deang, Michael Fina, Jinghua Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Gao Liu, Stephen G. Johnson, and Samuel S. Mao."Organic light-emitting diodes with carbon nanotube cathode-organic interface layer."Applied Physics Letters 94.1 (2009). DOI

2007

Liu, Deang, Michael Fina, Zhaoyang Chen, Xiaobo Chen, Gao Liu, Steven Johnson, and Samuel S. Mao."Organic light-emitting diodes with structured cathode."Applied Physics Letters 91 (2007) 093514-1-3.