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)

2019

Horton, Matthew Kristofer, Joseph Harold Montoya, Miao Liu, and Kristin A Persson."High-throughput prediction of the ground-state collinear magnetic order of inorganic materials using Density Functional Theory."npj Computational Materials 5.1 (2019). DOI

2018

Cheng, Lei, Miao Liu, Apurva Mehta, Huolin L Xin, Feng Lin, Kristin A Persson, Guoying Chen, Ethan J Crumlin, and Marca M Doeff."Garnet Electrolyte Surface Degradation and Recovery."ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.12 (2018) 7244 - 7252. DOI

Zimmermann, Nils E. R, Daniel C. Hannah Hannah, Ziqin Rong, Miao Liu, Gerbrand Ceder, Maciej Haranczyk, and Kristin A Persson."Electrostatic Estimation of Intercalant Jump-Diffusion Barriers Using Finite-Size Ion Models."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9.3 (2018) 628 - 634. DOI

2017

Rong, Ziqin, Penghao Xiao, Miao Liu, Wenxuan Huang, Daniel C Hannah, William Scullin, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Fast Mg ²⁺ diffusion in Mo ₃ (PO ₄ ) ₃ O for Mg batteries."Chemical Communications 53.57 (2017) 7998 - 8001. DOI

Canepa, Pieremanuele, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Daniel C Hannah, Rahul Malik, Miao Liu, Kevin G Gallagher, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges."Chemical Reviews 117.5 (2017) 4287 - 4341. DOI

Petousis, Ioannis, David Mrdjenovich, Eric Ballouz, Miao Liu, Donald Winston, Wei Chen, Tanja Graf, Thomas D Schladt, Kristin A Persson, and Fritz B Prinz."High-throughput screening of inorganic compounds for the discovery of novel dielectric and optical materials."Scientific Data 4.1 (2017). DOI

2016

Niu, Kai-Yang, Miao Liu, Kristin A Persson, Yu Han, and Haimei Zheng."Strain-Mediated Interfacial Dynamics during Au–PbS Core–Shell Nanostructure Formation."ACS Nano 10.6 (2016) 6235 - 6240. 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

Sun, Xiaoqi, Patrick Bonnick, Victor Duffort, Miao Liu, Ziqin Rong, Kristin A Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Linda F Nazar."A high capacity thiospinel cathode for Mg batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 9.7 (2016) 2273 - 2277. DOI

Sa, Niya, Hao Wang, Danielle L Proffit, Albert L Lipson, Baris Key, Miao Liu, Zhenxing Feng, Timothy T Fister, Yang Ren, Cheng-Jun Sun, John T Vaughey, Paul A Fenter, Kristin A Persson, and Anthony K Burrell."Is alpha-V2O5 a cathode material for Mg insertion batteries?."Journal of Power Sources 323 (2016) 44 - 50. DOI

2015

Rong, Ziqin, Rahul Malik, Pieremanuele Canepa, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Miao Liu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Materials Design Rules for Multivalent Ion Mobility in Intercalation Structures."Chemistry of Materials 27.17 (2015) 6016 - 6021. DOI

Gautam, Gopalakrishnan Sai, Pieremanuele Canepa, Rahul Malik, Miao Liu, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-principles evaluation of multi-valent cation insertion into orthorhombic V₂O₅."Chemical Communications 51.71 (2015) 13619 - 13622. DOI

Liu, Miao, Ziqin Rong, Rahul Malik, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anubhav Jain, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A Persson."Spinel compounds as multivalent battery cathodes: a systematic evaluation based on ab initio calculations."Energy & Environmental Science 8 (2015) 964-974. DOI