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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.
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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

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R. Epstein, Peter R. Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J. Teat, Trevor J. Seguin, Christopher W. Chan, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas P. Russell, Jay D. Keasling, Kristin A. Persson, and Brett A. Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

2021

Ringsby, Alexandra J., Kara D. Fong, Julian Self, Helen K. Bergstrom, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Kristin A. Persson."Transport Phenomena in Low Temperature Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 168.8 (2021) 080501. DOI

Fong, Kara D., Julian Self, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Kristin A. Persson."Ion Correlations and Their Impact on Transport in Polymer-Based Electrolytes."Macromolecules 54.6 (2021) 2575 - 2591. DOI

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

Cheng, Jianli, Eric Sivonxay, and Kristin A. Persson."Evaluation of Amorphous Oxide Coatings for High-Voltage Li-Ion Battery Applications Using a First-Principles Framework."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.31 (2020) 35748 - 35756. 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

Mrdjenovich, David, Matthew K. Horton, Joseph H. Montoya, Christian M. Legaspi, Shyam Dwaraknath, Vahe Tshitoyan, Anubhav Jain, and Kristin A. Persson."propnet: A Knowledge Graph for Materials Science."Matter 2.2 (2020) 464 - 480. DOI

Lin, Shuren, Zixuan Fang, Tingzheng Hou, Ting Wan Hsu, Chi H. So, Cher Yeoh, Roger Li, Yin Liu, Emory M. Chan, Yu-Lun Chueh, Bin Tang, Kristin A. Persson, and Jie Yao."Tunable valleytronics with symmetry-retaining high polarization degree in SnS _x Se _1−x model system."Applied Physics Letters 116.6 (2020) 061105. DOI

Gonze, Xavier, Bernard Amadon, Gabriel Antonius, Frédéric Arnardi, Lucas Baguet, Jean-Michel Beuken, Jordan Bieder, François Bottin, Johann Bouchet, Eric Bousquet, Nils Brouwer, Fabien Bruneval, Guillaume Brunin, Théo Cavignac, Jean-Baptiste Charraud, Wei Chen, Michel Côté, Stefaan Cottenier, Jules Denier, Grégory Geneste, Philippe Ghosez, Matteo Giantomassi, Yannick Gillet, Olivier Gingras, Donald R. Hamann, Geoffroy Hautier, Xu He, Nicole Helbig, Natalie Holzwarth, Yongchao Jia, François Jollet, William Lafargue-Dit-Hauret, Kurt Lejaeghere, Miguel A.L. Marques, Alexandre Martin, Cyril Martins, Henrique P.C. Miranda, Francesco Naccarato, Kristin A. Persson, Guido Petretto, Valentin Planes, Yann Pouillon, Sergei Prokhorenko, Fabio Ricci, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Aldo H. Romero, Michael Marcus Schmitt, Marc Torrent, Michiel J. van Setten, Benoit Van Troeye, Matthieu J. Verstraete , Gilles Zérah, and Josef W. Zwanziger."The Abinitproject: Impact, environment and recent developments."Computer Physics Communications 248 (2020) 107042. DOI

He, Changfei, Peter R. Christensen, Trevor J. Seguin, Eric A. Dailing, Brandon M. Wood, Rebecca K. Walde, Kristin A. Persson, Thomas P. Russell, and Brett A. Helms."Conformational Entropy as a Means to Control the Behavior of Poly(diketoenamine) Vitrimers In and Out of Equilibrium."Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59.2 (2020) 735 - 739. DOI

Cooley, Joya A., Matthew K. Horton, Emily E. Levin, Saul H. Lapidus, Kristin A. Persson, and Ram Seshadri."From Waste-Heat Recovery to Refrigeration: Compositional Tuning of Magnetocaloric Mn _{1+ x} Sb."Chemistry of Materials 32.3 (2020) 1243 - 1249. DOI

Sivonxay, Eric, Muratahan Aykol, and Kristin A. Persson."The lithiation process and Li diffusion in amorphous."Electrochimica Acta 331 (2020) 135344. DOI

Borodin, Oleg, Julian Self, Kristin A. Persson, Chunsheng Wang, and Kang Xu."Uncharted Waters: Super-Concentrated Electrolytes."Joule 4.1 (2020) 69 - 100. DOI

Zheng, Hui, Xiang-Guo Li, Richard Tran, Chi Chen, Matthew Horton, Donald Winston, Kristin A. Persson, and Shyue Ping Ong."Grain boundary properties of elemental metals."Acta Materialia 186 (2020) 40 - 49. DOI

Woods-Robinson, Rachel, Yanbing Han, Hanyu Zhang, Tursun Ablekim, Imran Sheikh, Kristin A. Persson, and Andriy Zakutayev."Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors."Chemical Reviews (2020). DOI

2006

Persson, Kristin A., Amelia Bengtson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Dane Morgan."Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin transition in the (Mg_1-x,Fe_x)O system."Geophysical Research Letters 33 (2006).

Persson, Kristin A., Gerbrand Ceder, and Dane Morgan."Spin transitions in the Fe_xMn_1-xS₂ system."Physical Review B 73 (2006).

2000

Ekman, Mathias, Kristin A. Persson, and Goran Grimvall."Lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of the B-Sn phase in Si."Physical Review B 62 (2000) 14784-14789.

Persson, Kristin A., Mathias Ekman, and Vidvuds Ozoliņš."Phonon instabilities in bcc Sc, Ti, La, and Hf."Physical Review B 61 (2000) 11221-11224.

Ekman, Mathias, Kristin A. Persson, and Goran Grimvall."Phase diagram and lattice instability in tungsten-rhenium alloys."Journal of Nuclear Materials 278 (2000) 273-276.

1999

Persson, Kristin A., Mathias Ekman, and Goran Grimvall."Dynamical and thermodynamical instabilities in the disordered Re_xW_1-x system."Physical Review B 60 (1999) 9999-10007.

1998

Ekman, Mathias, Babak Sadigh, Kristin Einarsdotter, Peter Blaha, and Kristin A. Persson."Ab initio study of the martensitic bcc-hcp transformation in iron."Physical Review B 58.9 (1998) 5296 - 5304. DOI

1997

Einarsdotter, Kristin, Babak Sadigh, Goran Grimvall, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Kristin A. Persson."Phonon Instabilities in fcc and bcc Tungsten."Physical Review Letters 79.11 (1997) 2073 - 2076. DOI

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