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

Attia, Peter M, Aditya Grover, Norman Jin, Kristen A Severson, Todor M Markov, Yang-Hung Liao, Michael H Chen, Bryan Cheong, Nicholas Perkins, Zi Yang, Patrick K Herring, Muratahan Aykol, Stephen J Harris, Richard D Braatz, Stefano Ermon, and William C Chueh."Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning."Nature 578.7795 (2020) 397 - 402. DOI

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

2018

Bassman, Lindsay, Pankaj Rajak, Rajiv K Kalia, Nakano Aiichiro, Sha Fei, Jifeng Sun, David J Singh, Muratahan Aykol, Patrick Huck, Kristin A Persson, and Priya Vashishta."Active learning for accelerated design of layered materials."npj Computational Materials 4.1 (2018). DOI

Shin, Yongwoo, Wang Hay Kan, Muratahan Aykol, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, Guoying Chen, and Kristin A Persson."Alleviating oxygen evolution from Li-excess oxide materials through theory-guided surface protection."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Tabor, Daniel P, Loïc M Roch, Semion K Saikin, Christoph Kreisbeck, Dennis Sheberla, Joseph H Montoya, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Muratahan Aykol, Carlos Ortiz, Hermann Tribukait, Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Christoph J Brabec, Benji Maruyama, Kristin A Persson, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik."Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation."Nature Reviews Materials 3.5 (2018) 5 - 20. DOI

Aykol, Muratahan, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Wenhao Sun, and Kristin A Persson."Thermodynamic limit for synthesis of metastable inorganic materials."Science Advances 4.4 (2018) eaaq0148. DOI

Bassman, Lindsay, Pankaj Rajak, Rajiv K Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Fei Sha, Muratahan Aykol, Patrick Huck, Kristin A Persson, Jifeng Sun, David J Singh, and Priya Vashishta."Efficient Discovery of Optimal N -Layered TMDC Hetero-StructuresABSTRACT."MRS Advances 3.6-7 (2018) 397 - 402. DOI

Aykol, Muratahan, and Kristin A Persson."Oxidation Protection with Amorphous Surface Oxides: Thermodynamic Insights from Ab Initio Simulations on Aluminum."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10.3 (2018) 3039 - 3045. DOI

2017

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