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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.
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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

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

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

2022

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

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. 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

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

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

Rippy, Kerry, Judith Vidal, Shuang Cui, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Mitigation of Leakage and Water Ingress for a Promising Phase Change Material (PCM) Containing Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)Abstract."ASME 2022 16th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2022 Heat Transfer Summer ConferenceASME 2022 16th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (2022). DOI

2021

Gao, Yuan, Qiye Zheng, Jacob C Jonsson, Sean D Lubner, Dragan C Curcija, Luis L Fernandes, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Christian Kohler."Parametric study of solid-solid translucent phase change materials in building windows."Applied Energy 301 (2021) 117467. DOI

Lau, Jonathan, Joseph K Papp, Drew Lilley, Piyachai Khomein, Sumanjeet Kaur, Christopher Dames, Gao Liu, and Ravi S Prasher."Dynamic tunability of phase-change material transition temperatures using ions for thermal energy storage."Cell Reports Physical Science 2.10 (2021) 100613. DOI

Odukomaiya, Adewale, Jason Woods, Nelson James, Sumanjeet Kaur, Kyle R Gluesenkamp, Navin Kumar, Sven Mumme, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Addressing energy storage needs at lower cost via on-site thermal energy storage in buildings."Energy & Environmental Science (2021). DOI

Zeng, Yuqiang, Divya Chalise, Yanbao Fu, Joseph Schaadt, Sumanjeet Kaur, Vincent S Battaglia, Sean D Lubner, and Ravi S Prasher."Operando spatial mapping of lithium concentration using thermal-wave sensing."Joule (2021). DOI

Zeng, Yuqiang, Divya Chalise, Sean D Lubner, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Ravi S Prasher."A review of thermal physics and management inside lithium-ion batteries for high energy density and fast charging."Energy Storage Materials 41 (2021) 264 - 288. DOI

Yang, Lin, Daihong Huh, Rui Ning, Vi H Rapp, Yuqiang Zeng, Yunzhi Liu, Sucheol Ju, Yi Tao, Yue Jiang, Jihyun Beak, Juyoung Leem, Sumanjeet Kaur, Heon Lee, Xiaolin Zheng, and Ravi S Prasher."High thermoelectric figure of merit of porous Si nanowires from 300 to 700 K."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Lilley, Drew, Jonathan Lau, Chris Dames, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Ravi S Prasher."Impact of size and thermal gradient on supercooling of phase change materials for thermal energy storage."Applied Energy 290 (2021) 116635. DOI

Khomein, Piyachai, Asritha Nallapaneni, Jonathan Lau, Drew Lilley, Chenhui Zhu, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S Prasher, and Gao Liu."Random copolymer of poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether)methacrylate as tunable transition temperature solid-solid phase change material for thermal energy storage."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 225 (2021) 111030. DOI