Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Office of Science Program Office/Division and Research

Total
($ in thousands)

• P-Wave Superconductivity in Sr2Ru04 and Other Possible New Superconductors

• Establishing Concepts for the Use of Clusters as Building Blocks of New Nanoscale Materials

• Raman Spectroscopic Study of Coupling Between Magnetic and Ferroelectric Orders in Nanoscaled Thin Films Superlattices

• Nanocolloidal Forces for Stability or Assembly

• Conduction Mechanisms and Structure of Ionomeric Single-Ion Conductors

• Possible Giant Electrocaloric Effect at Room Temperature in Relaxor Ferroelectric Polymers

• The State of Water in Proton Conducting Membranes

• A Hybrid Biological/Organic Half-Cell for Generating Dihydrogen

• Low-Temperature Synthesis Routes to Intermetallic Superconductors

• Studies of Interband Modes and Fermi Surface Features in Very Clean MgB2 Films

• 10-100 ueV Multichopper Spectrometer

• Structure and Dynamics of Domains in Ferroelectric Nanostructures

• Solvation and Charge Transfer in Ionic Liquids and Polar Solvents

• Elucidating the Molecular Level Mechanisms of Oxidation Reactions Effected by Heterogeneous Catalysts

• Atomic-Scale Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Properties of the Subsurface Hydride of Palladium

• Light Energy Transduction in Green Sulfur Bacteria

• New Perspectives on Acetate and One-Carbon Metabolism in the Methanoarchaea

• Homodimeric Type I Photosynthetic Reaction Centers in Anoxygenic Bacteria

• An Investigation of Rougness and Weathering at the Bedrock-Regolith Interface

• Broad Spectrum Photoelectrochemical Diodes for Solar Hydrogen Generation

• Dye-Sensitized Tandem Photovoltaic Cells

• Photoelectrochemistry of Semiconductor Nanowire Arrays

• Modification of Lignin by Protein Cross-Linking to Facilitate Production of Biofuels from Poplar

• Local Optical Spectroscopies for Subnanometer Spatial Resolution Chemical Imaging

• Chemical Imaging With Cluster Ion Beams and Lasers

• Metal-Linked Artificial Peptides as Photoinitiated Molecular Wires and Antennas

• Nanostructured Photocatalytic Water Splitting Systems

• Transcriptome and biochemical analyses of fungal degradation of wood

• Transition Metal Mediated Transformations of Small Molecules

• Analysis of Anther Cell Differentiation

• Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Cell Wall Loosening

• Finite Dimensional Approximations for Continuum Multiscale Problems

• Development of Computational Tools for Metabolic Models Curation, Flux, Elucidation and Strain Design

• Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at 2<.z<.3: Towards a Calibrated Probe of Dark Energy

• Theoretical Studies in Elementary Particle Physics

• Transversity and Transverse Spin Correlations of Quarks and Hadrons in QCD

• Theoretical Studies in High Energy Nuclear Physics

• Identifying Genes Controlling Ferulate Cross-Link Formation in Grass Cell Walls

• Synthesis of Carbon Dioxide Flux and Mixing Ratio Measurements in Support of the North American Carbon Program Midcontinental Regional Intensive

• Northeastern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research

• Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations Using ARM Observations

• Release of Aged Contaminants From Weathered Sediments:  Effects of Sorbate Speciation on Scaling of Reactive Transport

• A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indicators Under Climate Change Scenarios for the US

• Biochemical Mechanisms and Energy Strategies of Geobacter Sulfurreducens

• Parameterization and Analysis of 3-D Solar Radiative Transfer in Clouds

• Toward Quantifying Kinetics of Biotic and Abiotic Metal Reduction with Electrical Geophysical Methods

• Physical, Chemical and Structural Evolution of Zeolite - Containing Waste Forms Produced from Metakaolinite and Calcined HLW

• North Slope Site Scientist Team

*Total FY08 Funding for Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA ($ in thousands):

$8,668