Publications

X Term: Thermal Energy Group

2022

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
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

Yang, Lin, Madeleine P Gordon, Akanksha K Menon, Alexandra Bruefach, Kyle Haas, M S Scott, Ravi S Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Decoupling electron and phonon transport in single-nanowire hybrid materials for high-performance thermoelectrics."Science Advances 7.20 (2021) eabe6000. DOI
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
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
Lilley, Drew, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S Prasher."A simple model for the entropy of melting of monatomic liquids."Applied Physics Letters 118.8 (2021) 083902. DOI
Haddad, Andrew Z, Akanksha K Menon, Hyungmook Kang, Jeffrey J Urban, Ravi S Prasher, and Robert Kostecki."Solar Desalination Using Thermally Responsive Ionic Liquids Regenerated with a Photonic Heater."Environmental Science & Technology 55.5 (2021) 3260 - 3269. DOI
Booten, Chuck, Prakash Rao, Vi H Rapp, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Theoretical Minimum Thermal Load in Buildings."Joule 5.1 (2021) 24 - 46. DOI
Gordon, Madeleine P, Kyle Haas, Edmond W Zaia, Akanksha K Menon, Lin Yang, Alexandra Bruefach, Michael D Galluzzo, Mary C Scott, Prasher Prasher, Ayaskanta Sahu, and Jeffrey J Urban."Understanding Diameter and Length Effects in a Solution‐Processable Tellurium‐Poly(3,4‐Ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene Sulfonate Hybrid Thermoelectric Nanowire Mesh."Advanced Electronic Materials 7.3 (2021) 2000904. DOI

2020

Elzouka, Mahmoud, Charles Yang, Adrian Albert, Ravi S Prasher, and Sean D Lubner."Interpretable Forward and Inverse Design of Particle Spectral Emissivity Using Common Machine-Learning Models."Cell Reports Physical Science 1.12 (2020) 100259. DOI
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 (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
Henry, Asegun, Ravi S Prasher, and Arun Majumdar."Five thermal energy grand challenges for decarbonization."Nature Energy 5.9 (2020) 635 - 637. DOI
Chalise, Divya, Wenquan Lu, Venkat Srinivasan, and Ravi S Prasher."Heat of Mixing During Fast Charge/Discharge of a Li-Ion Cell: A Study on NMC523 Cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.9 (2020) 090560. DOI
Spotte‐Smith, Evan WalterCla, Peiyuan Yu, Samuel M Blau, Ravi S Prasher, and Anubhav Jain."Aqueous Diels–Alder reactions for thermochemical storage and heat transfer fluids identified using density functional theory."Journal of Computational Chemistry 41.24 (2020) 2137 - 2150. 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
Fang, Chen, Zhimeng Liu, Jonathan Lau, Mahmoud Elzouka, Guangzhao Zhang, Piyachai Khomein, Sean D Lubner, Philip N Ross, and Gao Liu."Gradient Polarity Solvent Wash for Separation and Analysis of Electrolyte Decomposition Products on Electrode Surfaces."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.2 (2020) 020506. DOI