PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW
OFFICE OF BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES
The Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program supports fundamental research in the natural sciences leading to new and improved energy technologies. The program’s purpose is to create new scientific knowledge by supporting basic, peer-reviewed research in areas of materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, plant and microbial biosciences, and engineering sciences that are relevant to energy resources, production, conversion, and efficiency. The results of BES-supported research are routinely published in the open literature.
A key function of the program is to plan, construct, and operate premier national user facilities to serve researchers at universities, national laboratories, and industrial laboratories, thus enabling the acquisition of new knowledge that cannot be obtained in any other way. The scientific facilities include synchrotron radiation light sources, high-flux neutron sources, electron-beam microcharacterization centers, nanoscale science research centers, and specialized facilities such as the Combustion Research Facility. These national resources are available free of charge to all researchers based on the quality and importance of proposed nonpropriety experiments.
A major objective of the BES program is to promote the transfer of the results of our basic research to advance and create technologies important to Department of Energy (DOE) missions in areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy resources, improved use of fossil fuels, mitigation of the adverse impacts of energy production and use, and future fusion energy sources. The following set of technical topics represents one important mechanism by which the BES program augments its system of university and laboratory research programs and integrates basic science, applied research, and development activities within the DOE.
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TOPICS:
16. Advanced Fossil Fuels Research
a. Hydrogen Fuels and Technologies
b. Biogeochemical Carbon Sequestration/Conversion
c. Instrumentation for Surface Science Investigations of Electrochemically Active Solid Oxide Materials
d. A More Economic Method for Making Liquid Fuels from Coal by Hydrogenation
17. Technologies Related to Energy Storage for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
a. Improved Electrolytes for Electrochemical Capacitors
b. Technology to Improve the Performance of Lithium-Ion Cells at Low Temperatures
c. Technologies to Improve the Tolerance of Lithium-Ion Cells and Batteries to Thermal Runaway Provoked by Abusive Discharge or Overcharge
d. Methods for Rapidly Predicting the Calendar Life of Lithium-Ion Cells and Batteries
18. Technologies for Hydrogen Transport and Storage
a. Advanced Materials and Technologies for Hydrogen Pipelines
b. Hydrogen Compression Technology
c. High-Pressure Hydrogen Tanks
a. Membrane Materials with Improved Properties
b. Membranes for Separations of Biobased Products
c. Hydrogen Production
d. Industrial Membrane Process Systems
21. Alternative Reaction Media for Industrial Chemical Processes
a. Ionic Liquids
b. Solventless Polymerization
c. Supercritical Solvents
22. Solid State Inorganic and Organic Light Emitting Diodes for General Lighting
a. High Efficiency Visible and Near UV (>380 nm) Semiconductor Materials for LED-Based General Illumination Technology
b. Advanced Architectures and Designs for High Power Conversion Efficiency Emitters
c. High Efficiency, Low-Voltage, Stable Materials for OLED-Based General Illumination Technology
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