Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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2012

Chen, Hailong, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Robert E Doe, Lijun Wu, Yime Zhu, Yuanzhi Tang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Carbonophosphates: A New Family of Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries Identified Computationally."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2009-2016. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Shyue P Ong, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, and Gerbrand Ceder."Accuracy of density functional theory in predicting formation energies of ternary oxides from binary oxides and its implication on phase stability."Physical Review B 85 (2012) 155208-155208. DOI

Huang, Jijun, Gao Liu, Chengyu Song, Eduardo Saiz, and Antoni P Tomsia."Role of Molecular Chemistry of Degradable pHEMA Hydrogels in Three-Dimensional Biomimetic Mineralization."Chemistry of Materials 24.7 (2012) 1331-1337. DOI

Ma, XiaoHui, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Robert E Doe, and Gerbrand Ceder."Improved Capacity Retention for LiVO₂ by Cr Substitution."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.2 (2012) A279-A284. DOI

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Xiangyun Song, Paul L Ridgway, Gao Liu, and Vincent S Battaglia."Towards the understanding of coatings on rate performance of LiFePO₄."Journal of Power Sources 200 (2012) 67-76. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Ruizhi Yang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Cooperation between active material, polymeric binder and conductive carbon additive in lithium ion battery cathode."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116.7 (2012) 4875-4882. DOI

Wu, Shao-Ling, Wei Zhang, Xiangyun Song, Alpesh K Shukla, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."High Rate Capability of Li(Ni_1/3Mn_1/3Co_1/3)O₂ Electrode for Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.4 (2012) A438-A444. DOI

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Particles and polymer binder interaction: a controlling factor in lithium-ion electrode performance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.3 (2012) A214-A221. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A Persson."Revealing the coupled cation interactions behind the electrochemical profile of Li_xNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Energy & Environmental Science 5.3 (2012) 6047-6051. DOI

2011

Ceder, Gerbrand, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P Ong."Recharging lithium battery research with first-principles methods."MRS Bulletin 36.03 (2011) 185-191. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Hailong Chen, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Novel mixed polyanions lithium-ion battery cathode materials predicted by high-throughput ab initio computations."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 17147-17153. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Xiangyun Song, Linwang Wang, Michael E Grass, Zhi Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."The Effects of Native Oxide Surface Layer on the Electrochemical Performance of Si Nanoparticle-Based Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158 (2011) A1260-A1266. DOI

Liu, Gao, Shidi Xun, Nenad Vukmirovic, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Honghe Zheng, Vincent S Battaglia, Linwang Wang, and Wanli Yang."Polymers with tailored electronic structure for high capacity lithium battery electrodes."Advanced Materials 23.40 (2011) 4679-4683. DOI

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, Paul L Ridgway, Ji Q Wang, and Vincent S Battaglia."A comparative study of polyacrylic acid and poly (vinylidene difluoride) binders for spherical natural graphite/LiFePO₄ electrodes and cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.18 (2011) 7707-7714. DOI

Mueller, Tim, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Evaluation of tavorite-structured cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries using high-throughput computing."Chemistry of Materials 23.17 (2011) 3854-3862. DOI

Ong, Shyue P, Vincent L Chevrier, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, Sangtae Kim, XiaoHui Ma, and Gerbrand Ceder."Voltage, stability and diffusion barrier differences between sodium-ion and lithium-ion intercalation materials."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 3680-3688. DOI

Xiao, Jie, Xiaojian Wang, Xiao-Qing Yang, Shidi Xun, Gao Liu, Phillip K Koech, Jun Liu, and John P Lemmon."Electrochemically Induced High Capacity Displacement Reaction of PEO/MoS₂/Graphene Nanocomposites with Lithium."Advanced Functional Materials 21 (2011) 2840-2846. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P Ong, Byoungwoo Kang, Charles J Moore, Robert E Doe, and Gerbrand Ceder."Phosphates as Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes: An Evaluation Based on High-Throughput Ab Initio Calculations."Chemistry of Materials 23.15 (2011) 3495-3508. DOI

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Shyue P Ong, Charles J Moore, Christopher C Fischer, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Formation enthalpies by mixing GGA and GGA+ U calculations."Physical Review B 84.4 (2011). DOI

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, Christopher C Fischer, Tim Mueller, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."A high-throughput infrastructure for density functional theory calculations."Computational Materials Science 50 (2011) 2295-2310. DOI

Kim, Jae C, Charles J Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Monoclinic LiMnBO₃ as a Li Intercalation Material."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.3 (2011) A309-A309. DOI

Kim, Suhan, Moon Jeong Park, Nitash P Balsara, Gao Liu, and Andrew M Minor."Minimization of focused ion beam damage in nanostructured polymer thin films."Ultramicroscopy 111.3 (2011) 191-199. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Christopher C Fischer, Virginie Ehrlacher, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Data Mined Ionic Substitutions for the Discovery of New Compounds."Inorganic Chemistry 50 (2011) 656-663. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Xiangyun Song, Michael E Grass, Daniel K Roseguo, Zhi Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Li."Improved Initial Performance of Si Nanoparticles by Surface Oxide Reduction for Lithium-Ion Battery Application."Electrochemical Solid-State Letters 14.5 (2011) A61-A63 . DOI

2010

Persson, Kristin A, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, and Gerbrand Ceder."Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the Li-graphite system from first-principles calculations."Physical Review B 82.12-15 (2010) 125416. DOI