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)

2023

Zeng, Yuqiang, Buyi Zhang, Yanbao Fu, Fengyu Shen, Qiye Zheng, Divya Chalise, Ruijiao Miao, Sumanjeet Kaur, Sean D Lubner, Michael C Tucker, Vincent S Battaglia, Chris Dames, and Ravi S Prasher."Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches."Nature Communications 14.1 (2023). DOI

Zhang, Buyi, Bei Fan, Zhi Huang, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S Battaglia, and Ravi S Prasher."A Review of Dispersion Film Drying Research."Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 20.3 (2023). DOI

Menon, Akanksha K, Mingxin Jia, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, and Ravi S Prasher."Distributed desalination using solar energy: A technoeconomic framework to decarbonize nontraditional water treatment."iScience 26.2 (2023) 105966. DOI

Zeng, Jian, Xintong Zhang, Ka Man Chung, Tianshi Feng, Haowen Zhang, Ravi S Prasher, and Renkun Chen."Moisture thermal battery with autonomous water harvesting for passive electronics cooling."Cell Reports Physical Science 4.2 (2023) 101250. DOI

Martin, Andrew, Drew Lilley, Ravi S Prasher, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Particle Size Optimization of Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for High Energy Density Thermal Storage."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS (2023). DOI

Gilbert, Tristan, Akanksha K Menon, Chris Dames, and Ravi S Prasher."Heat source and application-dependent levelized cost of decarbonized heat."Joule 7.1 (2023) 128 - 149. DOI

2022

Lilley, Drew, and Ravi S Prasher."Ionocaloric refrigeration cycleIonic cooling."Science 378.6626 (2022) 1344 - 1348. DOI

Yang, Lin, Yi Tao, Madeleine P Gordon, Akanksha K Menon, Yunfei Chen, Ravi S Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Morphological Ordering of the Organic Layer for High-Performance Hybrid Thermoelectrics."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.51 (2022) 57460 - 57470. DOI

Baibakova, Viktoriia, Mahmoud Elzouka, Sean D Lubner, Ravi S Prasher, and Anubhav Jain."Optical emissivity dataset of multi-material heterogeneous designs generated with automated figure extractionAbstract."Scientific Data 9.1 (2022). DOI

Foo, Zi Hao, Caleb Stetson, Elizabeth Dach, Akshay Deshmukh, Hyeonseok Lee, Akanksha K Menon, Ravi S Prasher, Ngai Yin Yip, John H Lienhard, and Aaron D Wilson."Solvent-driven aqueous separations for hypersaline brine concentration and resource recovery."Trends in Chemistry 4.12 (2022) 1078 - 1093. DOI

Chalise, Divya, Joseph Schaadt, Pallab Barai, Yuqiang Zeng, Robert Johnson, Sumanjeet Kaur, Sean D Lubner, Venkat Srinivasan, Michael C Tucker, and Ravi S Prasher."Using thermal interface resistance for non-invasive operando mapping of buried interfacial lithium morphology in-solid state batteries." V1 (2022). DOI

Chalise, Divya, Joseph Schaadt, Akshey Dhar, Venkat Srinivasan, Sean D Lubner, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Ravi S Prasher."Multi-Harmonic Electrothermal Spectroscopy (METS), a New Technique for Spatially Resolved Electrochemical Measurements."ECS Meeting Abstracts MA2022-02.1 (2022) 99 - 99. DOI

Chalise, Divya, Joseph Schaadt, Akshey Dhar, Venkat Srinivasan, Sean D Lubner, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Ravi S Prasher."Multi-Harmonic Electrothermal Spectroscopy (METS), a New Technique for Spatially Resolved Electrochemical Measurements."ECS Meeting Abstracts MA2022-02.1 (2022) 99 - 99. DOI

Martin, Andrew, Drew Lilley, Ravi S Prasher, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Particle Size Optimization of Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for High Energy Density Thermal Storage."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS (2022). DOI

Lu, Wenchao, Chandika Amarasinghe, Emily Zhang, Andrew Martin, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S Prasher, and Musahid Ahmed."Probing hydrogen-bond networks in plastic crystals with terahertz and infrared spectroscopy."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.8 (2022) 100988. DOI

Miao, Ruijiao, Ravi Kishore, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S Prasher, and Chris Dames."A non-volatile thermal switch for building energy savings."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.7 (2022) 100960. DOI

Consiglio, Anthony N, Drew Lilley, Ravi S Prasher, Boris Rubinsky, and Matthew J Powell-Palm."Methods to stabilize aqueous supercooling identified by use of an isochoric nucleation detection (INDe) device."Cryobiology 106 (2022) 91 - 101. DOI

Zheng, Qiye, Divya Chalise, Mingxin Jia, Yuqiang Zeng, Minxiang Zeng, Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Ali N.M Tanvir, Gottlieb Uahengo, Sumanjeet Kaur, Javier E Garay, Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, Ravi S Prasher, and Chris Dames."Structured illumination with thermal imaging (SI-TI): A dynamically reconfigurable metrology for parallelized thermal transport characterization."Applied Physics Reviews 9.2 (2022) 021411. DOI

Zheng, Qiye, Divya Chalise, Mingxin Jia, Yuqiang Zeng, Minxiang Zeng, Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Ali N.M Tanvir, Gottlieb Uahengo, Sumanjeet Kaur, Javier E Garay, Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, Ravi S Prasher, and Chris Dames."Structured illumination with thermal imaging (SI-TI): A dynamically reconfigurable metrology for parallelized thermal transport characterization."Applied Physics Reviews 9.2 (2022) 021411. DOI

Chang, Brooke, Anthony N Consiglio, Drew Lilley, Ravi S Prasher, Boris Rubinsky, Baptiste Journaux, and Matthew J Powell-Palm."On the pressure dependence of salty aqueous eutectics."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.5 (2022) 100856. DOI

Zheng, Qiye, Divya Chalise, Mingxin Jia, Yuqiang Zeng, Minxiang Zeng, Mortaza Saeidi-Javash, Ali N.M Tanvir, Gottlieb Uahengo, Sumanjeet Kaur, Javier E Garay, Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, Ravi S Prasher, and Chris Dames."Structured illumination with thermal imaging (SI-TI): A dynamically reconfigurable metrology for parallelized thermal transport characterization."Applied Physics Reviews 9.2 (2022) 021411. DOI

Lubner, Sean D, and Ravi S Prasher."Combined heat and electricity using thermal storage to decarbonize buildings and industries."One Earth 5.3 (2022) 230 - 231. DOI

Odukomaiya, Adewale, Jason Woods, Nelson James, Sumanjeet Kaur, Kyle R Gluesenkamp, Navin Kumar, Sven Mumme, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Correction: Addressing energy storage needs at lower cost via on-site thermal energy storage in buildings."Energy & Environmental Science 15.1 (2022) 395 - 395. DOI

Peng, Peng, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Sean D Lubner, Hanna Breunig, and Lin Yang."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power." (2022).

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S Prasher."Thermal fluids with high specific heat capacity through reversible Diels-Alder reactions."iScience 25.1 (2022) 103540. DOI