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)

2013

Karim, Altaf, Sonia Fosse, and Kristin A. Persson."Surface structure and equilibrium particle shape of the LiMn₂O₄ spinel from first-principles calculations."Physical Review B 87.7 (2013). DOI

Wu, Yabi, Predrag Lazic, Geoffroy Hautier, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."First principles high throughput screening of oxynitrides for water-splitting photocatalysts."Energy & Environmental Science 6.1 (2013) 157-168. DOI

2012

Gunter, Dan, Shreyas Cholia, Anubhav Jain, Michael Kocher, Kristin A. Persson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Shyue P. Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Community Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from the Materials Project."High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC) 2012 (2012) 1244-1251. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A. Persson."Li absorption and intercalation in single layer graphene and few layer graphene by first principles."Nano letters 12.9 (2012) 4624-4628. DOI

Grimvall, , Göran, Blanka Magyari-Köpe, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Kristin A. Persson."Lattice instabilities in metallic elements."Reviews of Modern Physics 84.2 (2012). DOI

Persson, Kristin A., Bryn Waldwick, Predrag Lazic, and Gerbrand Ceder."Prediction of solid-aqueous equilibria: Scheme to combine first-principles calculations of solids with experimental aqueous states."Physical Review B 85.23 (2012). 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

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

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

Persson, Kristin A., Vijay A. Sethuraman, Laurence J. Hardwick, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, Venkat Srinivasan, Robert Kostecki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Lithium diffusion in graphitic carbon."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1.8 (2010) 1176-1180. DOI

2009

Tang, Lei, Byungchan Han, Kristin A. Persson, Cody Friesen, Ting He, Karl Sieradzki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Electrochemical stability of nanometer-scale Pt particles in acidic environments."Journal of the American Chemical Society 132.2 (2009) 596-600. DOI

Doe, Robert E, Kristin A. Persson, Geoffroy Hautier, and Gerbrand Ceder."First Principles Study of the Li-BiF Phase Diagram and Bismuth Fluoride Conversion Reactions with Lithium."Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 12.7 (2009) A125-A128. DOI

2008

Bi, Lei, Alexander R. Taussig, Hyun-Suk Kim, Lei Wang, Gerald F. Dionne, D. Bono, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Caroline A. Ross."Structural, magnetic, and optical properties of BiFeO₃ and Bi₂FeMnO₆ epitaxial thin films: An experimental and first-principles study."Physical Review B 78 (2008) 104106. DOI

Sivakumar, , V., Caroline A. Ross, N. Yabuuchi, Yang Shao-Horn, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Electrochemical Control of the Magnetic Moment of CrO₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) P83-P88.

Doe, Robert E, Kristin A. Persson, Ying Shirley Meng, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-Principles Investigation of the Li-Fe-F Phase Diagram and Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conversion Reactions of Iron Fluorides with Lithium."Chemistry of Materials 20.16 (2008) 5274-5283. DOI

Predith, A., Gerbrand Ceder, Chris Wolverton, Kristin A. Persson, and Tim Mueller."Ab initio prediction of ordered ground-state structures in ZrO₂-Y₂O₃."Physical Review B 77 (2008). DOI

Bengtson, , Amelia, Kristin A. Persson, and Dane Morgan."Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin crossover in perovskite (Mg_1-x,Fe_x)SiO₃."Earth and Planetary Science Letters 265 (2008) 535-545.

2007

Gallardo-Amores, Jose M., Neven Biskup, Ulises Amador, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and M. Elena Arroyo y de Dompablo."Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Transformation of V₂O₅ Under Pressure."Chemistry of Materials 19 (2007) 5262-5271. 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).

2003

Curtarolo, Stefano, Dane Morgan, Kristin A. Persson, John Rodgers, and Gerbrand Ceder."Predicting Crystal Structures with Data Mining of Quantum Calculations."Physical Review Letters 91 (2003).

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.