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

Gorai, Prashun, Alex Ganose, Alireza Faghaninia, Anubhav Jain, and Vladan Stevanović."Computational discovery of promising new n-type dopable ABX Zintl thermoelectric materials."Materials Horizons 7.7 (2020) 1809 - 1818. DOI

2019

Shi, Xuemin, Cheng Sun, Zhonglin Bu, Xinyue Zhang, Yixuan Wu, Siqi Lin, Wen Li, Alireza Faghaninia, Anubhav Jain, and Yanzhong Pei."Revelation of Inherently High Mobility Enables Mg ₃Sb ₂as a Sustainable Alternative to n‐Bi₂ Te ₃ Thermoelectrics."Advanced Science 6.16 (2019) 1802286. DOI

Kuo, Jimmy Jiahong, Umut Aydemir, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Fei Zhou, Guodong Yu, Alireza Faghaninia, Francesco Ricci, Mary Anne White, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and G. G Jeffrey Snyder."Origins of ultralow thermal conductivity in 1-2-1-4 quaternary selenides."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.6 (2019) 2589 - 2596. 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

Li, Juan, Xinyue Zhang, Zhiwei Chen, Siqi Lin, Wen Li, Jiahong Shen, Ian T Witting, Alireza Faghaninia, Yue Chen, Anubhav Jain, Lidong Chen, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, and Yanzhong Pei."Low-Symmetry Rhombohedral GeTe Thermoelectrics."Joule 2.5 (2018) 976 - 987. DOI

Ward, Logan, Alexander Dunn, Alireza Faghaninia, Nils E. R Zimmermann, Saurabh Bajaj, Qi Wang, Joseph Montoya, Jiming Chen, Kyle Bystrom, Maxwell Dylla, Kyle Chard, Mark D Asta, Kristin A Persson, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Ian Foster, and Anubhav Jain."Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining."Computational Materials Science 152 (2018) 60 - 69. DOI

2017

Wu, Yixuan, Wen Li, Alireza Faghaninia, Zhiwei Chen, Juan Li, Xinyue Zhang, Bo Gao, Siqi Lin, Binqiang Zhou, Anubhav Jain, and Yanzhong Pei."Promising thermoelectric performance in van der Waals layered SnSe2."Materials Today Physics 3 (2017) 127 - 136. DOI

Pöhls, Jan-Hendrik, Alireza Faghaninia, Guido Petretto, Umut Aydemir, Francesco Ricci, Guodong Li, Max Wood, Saneyuki Ohno, Geoffroy Hautier, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Anubhav Jain, and Mary Anne White."Metal phosphides as potential thermoelectric materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 5.47 (2017) 12441 - 12456. DOI

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

Prakash, Abhinav, Peng Xu, Alireza Faghaninia, Sudhanshu Shukla, Joel W Ager, Cynthia S Lo, and Bharat Jalan."Wide bandgap BaSnO3 films with room temperature conductivity exceeding 104 S cm−1."Nature Communications 8.1 (2017). DOI

Faghaninia, Alireza, Guodong Yu, Umut Aydemir, Max Wood, Wei Chen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Geoffroy Hautier, and Anubhav Jain."A computational assessment of the electronic, thermoelectric, and defect properties of bournonite (CuPbSbS ₃) and related substitutions."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19.9 (2017) 6743 - 6756. DOI