U.S. Department of Energy

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and

Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program

Preliminary Topic Titles for the 2009 SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunity Notice

 

NOTE:  THESE ARE ONLY TITLES.  TOPICS ARE NOT AVAILABLE YET.      

The DOE plans to issue the 2009 SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunity Notice mid-September 2008.  The technical topics of interest are listed below and are subject to change prior to release.  Also, they are not necessarily in the order they will appear in the funding notice.  Full topic descriptions will be available in the Funding Opportunity Notice.

DOE FY 2009 Technical Topic Titles

1. Technology to Support BES User Facilities

2. Accelerator Technologies for Present and Future Accelerator Facilities

3. Instrumentation for Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy

4. Instrumentation for Materials Research Using Synchrotron Radiation

5. Advanced Coal Research

6. Solid State Lighting

7. Advanced Materials and Technologies for Cooling and Waste Heat Recovery

8. Energy Efficient Membranes

9. Catalysis

10. Nanotechnology

11. Materials for Nuclear Energy Systems

12. Advanced Battery Development

13. Energy Savings Technologies for Commodity Manufacturing Industries

14. Increasing Efficiency in Traditional Lighting Technologies 

15. Production of Biofuels from Biomass

16. Advanced Water Power Technology Development

17. Wind Energy Technology Development

18. Geothermal Technologies

19. Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies

20. Solar Energy

21. Technologies Related to Energy Storage for Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

22. Climate Control Technology for Fossil Energy Applications

23. Oil and Gas Technologies

24. Coal Gasification Technologies

25. Use of Algae for Fuels Production

26. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology for Coal-Based Power Plants

27. Advanced Turbine Technology for IGCC Power Plants     

28. Sensors and Controls for Fossil Energy Power Generation Systems

29. High Performance Materials for Fossil Energy Power Generation Systems

30. High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing

31. High Energy Physics Detectors

32. High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders

33. Accelerator Technology for the International Linear Collider

34. Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators

35. Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders

36. Medical Sciences

37. Genomes-to-Life (GTL) and Related Biotechnologies

38. Technologies for Subsurface Characterization and Monitoring

39. Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere

40. Atmospheric Measurement Technology

41. Enhancing Availability of Climate Model Output  

42. Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology

43. Nuclear Physics Software and  Data Management

44. Nuclear Physics  Electronics Design and Fabrication

45. Nuclear Physics Instrumentation, Detection Systems and Techniques

46. Software Libraries and Applications Maintenance and Scaling to Petascale

47. Scientific Visualization and Data Understanding

48. High Performance Networks

49. Scalable System Software for Petascale Computer Systems

50. Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems Plasma Facing

51. Fusion Science and Technology

52. High Energy Density Physics for Inertial Fusion Energy

53. Remote Sensing

54. Alternative Radiological Sources

55. Simulation and Software Tools For Nonproliferation R&D

56. Seismic Signal Analysis

57. Advanced Technologies for Electricity Systems

58. Search, Discovery, and Communication of Scientific and Technical Knowledge in   Distributed  Systems

59. Improved Characterization of Waste in Tanks and Ancillary Piping

60. Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy