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)

2015

Qu, Xiaohui, Anubhav Jain, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Lei Cheng, Yong Zhang, Shyue P Ong, Miriam Brafman, Edward Maginn, Larry A Curtiss, and Kristin A Persson."The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery."Computational Materials Science 103 (2015) 56-67. DOI

Ong, Shyue P, Shreyas Cholia, Anubhav Jain, Miriam Brafman, Dan Gunter, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A Persson."The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles."Computational Materials Science 97 (2015) 209-215. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Rajeev S Assary, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P Ong, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Kristin A Persson, and Larry A Curtiss."Accelerating Electrolyte Discovery for Energy Storage with High-Throughput Screening."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (2015) 283-291. DOI

2013

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue P Ong, Geoffroy Hautier, Wei Chen, William D Richards, Stephen Dacek, Shreyas Cholia, Dan Gunter, David Skinner, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A Persson."Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation."APL Materials 1.1 (2013). DOI

Ong, Shyue P, William D Richards, Anubhav Jain, Geoffroy Hautier, Michael Kocher, Shreyas Cholia, Dan Gunter, Vincent L Chevrier, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis."Computational Materials Science 68 (2013) 314-319. 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

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P Ong."From the computer to the laboratory: materials discovery and design using first-principles calculations."Journal of Materials Science 47.21 (2012) 7317-7340. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Shyue P Ong, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, and Gerbrand Ceder."Accuracy of density functional theory in predicting formation energies of ternary oxides from binary oxides and its implication on phase stability."Physical Review B 85 (2012) 155208-155208. DOI

2011

Ceder, Gerbrand, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P Ong."Recharging lithium battery research with first-principles methods."MRS Bulletin 36.03 (2011) 185-191. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Hailong Chen, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Novel mixed polyanions lithium-ion battery cathode materials predicted by high-throughput ab initio computations."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 17147-17153. DOI

Ong, Shyue P, Vincent L Chevrier, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, Sangtae Kim, XiaoHui Ma, and Gerbrand Ceder."Voltage, stability and diffusion barrier differences between sodium-ion and lithium-ion intercalation materials."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 3680-3688. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P Ong, Byoungwoo Kang, Charles J Moore, Robert E Doe, and Gerbrand Ceder."Phosphates as Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes: An Evaluation Based on High-Throughput Ab Initio Calculations."Chemistry of Materials 23.15 (2011) 3495-3508. DOI

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

Ong, Shyue P, Anubhav Jain, Geoffroy Hautier, Byoungwoo Kang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Thermal stabilities of delithiated olivine MPO₄ (M=Fe, Mn) cathodes investigated using first principles calculations."Electrochemistry Communications 12.3 (2010) 427-430. DOI