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)

2020

Todd, Paul K., Allison Wustrow, Rebecca D. McAuliffe, Matthew J. McDermott, Gia Thinh Tran, Brennan C. McBride, Ethan D. Boeding, Daniel O’Nolan, Chia-Hao Liu, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Karena W. Chapman, Simon J.L. Billinge, Kristin A. Persson, Ashfia Huq, Gabriel M. Veith, and James R. Neilson."Defect-Accommodating Intermediates Yield Selective Low-Temperature Synthesis of YMnO ₃Polymorphs."Inorganic Chemistry 59.18 (2020) 13639 - 13650. DOI

Ling, Handong, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, and Kristin A. Persson."Origin of Disorder Tolerance in Piezoelectric Materials and Design of Polar Systems."Chemistry of Materials 32.7 (2020) 2836 - 2842. DOI

2019

Garten, Lauren M., David T. Moore, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Philip Schulz, Jake Wands, Angus Rockett, Brian Newell, Kristin A. Persson, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, and David S. Ginley."The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI ₃."Science Advances 5.1 (2019) eaas9311. DOI

2018

Woods-Robinson, Rachel, Danny Broberg, Alireza Faghaninia, Anubhav Jain, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, and Kristin A. Persson."Assessing High-Throughput Descriptors for Prediction of Transparent Conductors."Chemistry of Materials 30.22 (2018) 8375 - 8389. DOI

Ye, Weike, Chi Chen, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Anubhav Jain, Shyue Ping Ong, and Kristin A. Persson."Harnessing the Materials Project for machine-learning and accelerated discoveryAbstract."MRS Bulletin 43.9 (2018) 664 - 669. DOI

Latimer, Katherine, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Kiran Mathew, Donald Winston, and Kristin A. Persson."Evaluation of thermodynamic equations of state across chemistry and structure in the materials project."npj Computational Materials 4.1 (2018). DOI

Tabor, Daniel P., Loïc M. Roch, Semion K. Saikin, Christoph Kreisbeck, Dennis Sheberla, Joseph H. Montoya, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Muratahan Aykol, Carlos Ortiz, Hermann Tribukait, Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Christoph J. Brabec, Benji Maruyama, Kristin A. Persson, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik."Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation."Nature Reviews Materials 3.5 (2018) 5 - 20. DOI

Petretto, Guido, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Henrique P.C. Miranda, Donald Winston, Matteo Giantomassi, Michiel J. van Setten, Xavier Gonze, Kristin A. Persson, Geoffroy Hautier, and Gian-Marco Rignanese."High-throughput density-functional perturbation theory phonons for inorganic materials."Scientific Data 5 (2018) 180065. DOI

Garten, Lauren M., Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Julian Walker, John S. Mangum, Paul F. Ndione, Yoonsang Park, Daniel A. Beaton, Venkatraman Gopalan, Brian P. Gorman, Laura T. Schelhas, Michael F. Toney, SusanTrolier‐McKinstry, Kristin A. Persson, and David S. Ginley."Theory‐Guided Synthesis of a Metastable Lead‐Free Piezoelectric Polymorph."Advanced Materials 30.25 (2018) 1800559. DOI

Aykol, Muratahan, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Wenhao Sun, and Kristin A. Persson."Thermodynamic limit for synthesis of metastable inorganic materials."Science Advances 4.4 (2018) eaaq0148. DOI

2017

Mathew, Kiran, Joseph H. Montoya, Alireza Faghaninia, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Muratahan Aykol, Hanmei Tang, Iek-heng Chu, Tess Smidt, Brandon Bocklund, Matthew Horton, John Dagdelen, Brandon Wood, Zi-Kui Liu, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Shyue Ping Ong, Kristin A. Persson, and Anubhav Jain."Atomate: A high-level interface to generate, execute, and analyze computational materials science workflows."Computational Materials Science 139 (2017) 140 - 152. DOI

2016

Ding, Hong, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Lauren Garten, Paul Ndione, David Ginley, and Kristin A. Persson."Computational Approach for Epitaxial Polymorph Stabilization through Substrate Selection."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.20 (2016) 13086 - 13093. DOI