Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 
 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES) 

  • The Evolution of Topically Complex Structures:  Coarsening of Dendritic Mixtures

  • Effect of Rare-Earth Additions on the Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Al-Sc Alloys Containing Nanosize

  • New Methods for Atomic Structure Determination of Nanoscale Materials

  • Self-Organized Highly Regular Nanostructures in Polymer Films

  • High Performance Nano-Crystalline Oxide Fuel Cell Materials: Defects, Structures, Interfaces, Transport, and Electrochemistry

  • Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity

  • Electronic Structure and Novel Properties in Complex Oxides and Hetero-Interfaces

  • Microstructural Changes and Deformation Processes of Nanocrystalline Cu Under Constant and Time-Dependent Stresses

  • Nanoengineering of Complex Materials

  • In Situ X-ray Studies of Adsorption, Nucleation and Self-Assembly at Soft and Hard Surfaces

  • Dynamics of Segregation and Mixing of Granular Matter

  • Epitaxial Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures

  • Engineered Electrodes and Electrode-Organic Interfaces for

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Institute for Environmental Catalysis

  • Supramolecular-Coordination-Chemistry-Derived Membranes Featuring Nanoscale Porosity and Selective Chemical Separation Capabilities

  • Fundamental Studies of Light-Induced Charge Transfer, Energy Transfer, and Energy Conversion with Supramolecular Systems

  • Light-Driven Charge Transfer in Face-to-Face Donor-Spacer-Acceptor Supramolecular Systems

  • Vibrational Dynamics in Photoinduced Electron Transfer

  • Approaches to Some of the Outstanding Problems in the Heterogeneous Compactive Deformation of Geomaterials

  • Actinide Transition-Metal Chalcogenides and Pnictides

  • Computational Nanophotonics: Modeling Optical Interactions and Transport in Tailored Nanosystem Architectures

  • New Directions in Intense Laser Alignment

  • Surface Charge Densities and Acidities of Biogeochemically Important Organic

  • Approaches to Integrated Photochemical Systems for Solar Energy Conversion

  • Synthesis Strategy for Novel Oxide Catalytic Materials

  • In-Situ and Time-Resolved Characterization of Working Catalysts by Ultraviolet Resonance Raman

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • High Energy Physics Research

  • 3D Atom-Probe Microscopy on Niobium for SRF Cavities

  • Development of Beam Instrumentation for CLIC at the CTF3 Facility at CERN

Mathematical Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • Nonlinear Optimization and Applications

  • Programming Models for HPCS: I/O Models and Runtime Interface

  • High Performance Networking Hardware Design

  • HPNAIDM: The High-Performance Network Anomaly/Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System

  • Optical Network Testbed Workshop II - September 2005

  • Scientific Data Management Integrated Software Infrastructure Center

Medical Sciences Division (BER)  

  • A Computational Framework for the Discovery of Novel Biotransformations

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • Physics with Rare Isotope Beams

  • Strong Interaction Studies with Medium Energy Probes

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $7,234