University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

 
 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES) 

  • Microstructural Origins of the Dielectric Behavior of Ferroelectric Thin Films

  • Host-Guest Interactions in Materials for Hydrogen Separations and Storage

  • Heat Transport by Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection

  • Properties of Surfaces and Films over Large Length and Time Scales

  • Biological and Biomimetic Low-Temperature Routes to Materials for Energy Applications

  • Functional Interfaces in Polymer-Based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Establishment of a Cluster

  • Miniaturized Hybrid Materials Inspired by Nature

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Hierarchical Design of Supported Organometallic Catalysis for Hydrocarbon Transformations

  • Nanostructured Metal Carbide Catalysts for the Hydrogen Economy

  • Investigations of Electronic Promotion of C-x Bond Transformations

  • Physiochemical Evidence of Faulting Processes and Modeling of Fluid Flow in Evolving Fault Systems in Southern California

  • Electronically Non-Adiabatic Interactions in Molecule Metal-Surface Scattering

  • AB18: Prototype of a Novel Signaling Factor

  • Chemical Imaging with 100nm Spatial Resolution

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • UCSB High Energy User Group

  • National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory

Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • Multiscale Simulation Algorithims for Biochemical Systems

  • PetaScale Application Development Analysis

  • Localized Scale Coupling and New Educational Paradigms in Multiscale

Research Division (FES) 

  • A Science-Based Fast Track for Advanced Fusion Structural Materials Development

Climate Change Research Division (BER) 

  • Effects of Oceanic Disposal of Carbon Dioxide on Benthic Microfauna as Indicators of Dissolution and Ecosystem Health

Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (BER)  

  • Stabilization of Plutonium in Subsursface Environments via Microbial Reduction and Biofilm Formation

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $6,445