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

de la Fuente, Solis , Mauricio, Sumanjeet Kaur, Qin Hu, Edward S. Barnard, Peter Dudenas, Ahmet Kusoglu, Thomas P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Ravi S. Prasher."Enhanced Charge Carrier Transport in 2D Perovskites by Incorporating Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes or Graphene."ACS Energy Letters 5.1 (2020) 109 - 116. DOI

Huang, Zhi, Sumanjeet Kaur, Musahid Ahmed, and Ravi S. Prasher."Water Freezes at Near-Zero Temperatures Using Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrodes under Static Electric Fields."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.40 (2020) 45525 - 45532. DOI

He, Xin, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Robert Kostecki."Mining Lithium from Seawater."Joule 4.7 (2020) 1357 - 1358. DOI

Lubner, Sean D., Sumanjeet Kaur, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Ravi S. Prasher."Identification and characterization of the dominant thermal resistance in lithium-ion batteries using operando 3-omega sensors."Journal of Applied Physics 127.10 (2020) 105104. DOI

Zheng, Qiye, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, and Ravi S. Prasher."Analysis and improvement of the hot disk transient plane source method for low thermal conductivity materials."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 151 (2020) 119331. DOI

Menon, Akanksha K., Iwan Haechler, Sumanjeet Kaur, Sean D. Lubner, and Ravi S. Prasher."Enhanced solar evaporation using a photo-thermal umbrella for wastewater management."Nature Sustainability 3.2 (2020) 144 - 151. DOI

2019

de la Fuente, Mauricio Solis, Sumanjeet Kaur, Qin Hu, Edward S. Barnard, Peter Dudenas, Ahmet Kusoglu, Thomas P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Ravi S. Prasher."Enhanced Charge Carrier Transport in 2D Perovskites by Incorporating Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes or Graphene."ACS Energy Letters 5.1 (2019) 109 - 116. DOI

Wang, Hao, Sumanjeet Kaur, Mahmoud Elzouka, and Ravi S. Prasher."A nano-photonic filter for near infrared radiative heater."Applied Thermal Engineering 153 (2019) 221 - 224. DOI

2018

Wang, Hao, Iwan Haechler, Sumanjeet Kaur, Justin P. Freedman, and Ravi S. Prasher."Spectrally selective solar absorber stable up to 900 °C for 120 h under ambient conditions."Solar Energy 174 (2018) 305–311. DOI

2014

Kaur, Sumanjeet, Nachiket Raravikar, Brett A. Helms, Ravi S. Prasher, and D. Frank Ogletree."Enhanced thermal transport at covalently functionalized carbon nanotube array interfaces."Nature Communications 5 (2014) 3082. DOI