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)

2018

Rajput, Nav Nidhi, Trevor J. Seguin, Brandon M. Wood, Xiaohui Qu, and Kristin A. Persson."Elucidating Solvation Structures for Rational Design of Multivalent Electrolytes—A Review."Topics in Current Chemistry 376.3 (2018). DOI

2017

Newhouse, Paul F., Sebastian E. Reyes-Lillo, Guo Li, Lan Zhou, Aniketa Shinde, Dan Guevarra, Santosh K. Suram, Edwin Soedarmadji, Matthias H. Richter, Xiaohui Qu, Kristin A. Persson, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and John M. Gregoire."Discovery and Characterization of a Pourbaix-Stable, 1.8 eV Direct Gap Bismuth Manganate Photoanode."Chemistry of Materials 29.23 (2017) 10027 - 10036. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, Yong Zhang, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Anubhav Jain, Edward Maginn, and Kristin A. Persson."Computational Design of New Magnesium Electrolytes with Improved Properties."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121.30 (2017) 16126 - 16136. DOI

Wills, Lindsay A., Xiaohui Qu, I-Ya Chang, Thomas J. L. Mustard, Douglas A. Keszler, Kristin A. Persson, and Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong."Group additivity-Pourbaix diagrams advocate thermodynamically stable nanoscale clusters in aqueous environments."Nature Communications 8.1 (2017). DOI

Ward, Ashleigh L., Sean E. Doris, Longjun Li, Mark A. Hughes, Xiaohui Qu, Kristin A. Persson, and Brett A. Helms."Materials Genomics Screens for Adaptive Ion Transport Behavior by Redox-Switchable Microporous Polymer Membranes in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."ACS Central Science 3.5 (2017) 399 - 406. DOI

2016

Gerber, Laura C. H., Peter D. Frischmann, Frank Y. Fan, Sean E. Doris, Xiaohui Qu, Angelique M. Scheuermann, Kristin A. Persson, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Brett A. Helms."Three-Dimensional Growth of Li ₂ S in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Promoted by a Redox Mediator."Nano Letters 16.1 (2016) 549 - 554. DOI

Liu, Miao, Anubhav Jain, Ziqin Rong, Xiaohui Qu, Pieremanuele Canepa, Rahul Malik, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A. Persson."Evaluation of sulfur spinel compounds for multivalent battery cathode applications."Energy & Environmental Science 9.10 (2016) 3201 - 3209. DOI

Han, Sang-Don, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Xiaohui Qu, Baofei Pan, Meinan He, Magali S. Ferrandon, Chen Liao, Kristin A. Persson, and Anthony K. Burrell."Origin of Electrochemical, Structural, and Transport Properties in Nonaqueous Zinc Electrolytes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.5 (2016) 3021 - 3031. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, and Kristin A. Persson."Toward Accurate Modeling of the Effect of Ion-Pair Formation on Solute Redox Potential."Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12.9 (2016) 4501 - 4508. DOI

2015

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue Ping Ong, Wei Chen, Bharat Medasan, Xiaohui Qu, Michael Kocher, Miriam Brafman, Guido Petretto, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Daniel Gunter, and Kristin A. Persson."FireWorks: a dynamic workflow system designed for high-throughput applications."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 27.17 (2015) 5037 - 5059. DOI

Frischmann, Peter D., Laura C. H. Gerber, Sean E. Doris, Erica Y. Tsai, Frank Y. Fan, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A. Persson, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Brett A. Helms."Supramolecular Perylene Bisimide-Polysulfide Gel Networks as Nanostructured Redox Mediators in Dissolved Polysulfide Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 27.19 (2015) 6765 - 6770. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, Anubhav Jain, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Lei Cheng, Yong Zhang, Shyue P. Ong, Miriam Brafman, Edward Maginn, Larry A. Curtiss, and Kristin A. Persson."The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery."Computational Materials Science 103 (2015) 56-67. DOI

Rajput, Nav Nidhi, Xiaohui Qu, Niya Sa, Anthony K. Burrell, and Kristin A. Persson."The Coupling between Stability and Ion Pair Formation in Magnesium Electrolytes from First-Principles Quantum Mechanics and Classical Molecular Dynamics."Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2015) 3411-3420. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Rajeev S. Assary, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P. Ong, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Kristin A. Persson, and Larry A. Curtiss."Accelerating Electrolyte Discovery for Energy Storage with High-Throughput Screening."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 283-291. DOI

2014

Lapidus, Saul H., Nav Nidhi Rajput, Xiaohui Qu, Karena W. Chapman, Kristin A. Persson, and Peter J. Chupas."Solvation structure and energetics of electrolytes for multivalent energy storage."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2014). DOI