UMERC wins "DOE Energy Frontier Research Center"
Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating the following Professors:
- Gary Rubloff (MSE/ISR) (PI)
- Sang Bok Lee (chem) (co-PI)
- Ellen Williams (PHYS/IPST)
- Ray Adomaitis (ChBE/ISR)
- Janice Reutt-Robey (chem)
- Chunsheng Wang (ChBE)
- Robert Walker (chem)
- Yu-Huang Wang (chem)
- Michael Fuhrer (phys/CNAM)
- John Cummings (MSE)
- Oded Rabin (MSE/IREAP)
- Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR)
from the University of Maryland for putting together a successful DOE Energy Frontier Research Center Proposal on "Science of Precision Multifunctional Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage."
Other contributing partners include:
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of Florida
- Yale University
- University of California, Irvine
I would also like to thank the VP of Research Office, the staff of CMPS, Life Sciences and the Clark School for their support of this proposal.
Congratulations to the Maryland team for a job well done.
Darryll
The 46 EFRC awards span the full range of energy research challenges described in the BES Basic Research Needs (BRN) series of workshop reports while also addressing one or more of the science grand challenges described in the BESAC report, Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenge for Science and the Imagination.
Because many of the EFRCs address multiple
energy challenges that are linked by common scientific themes, such as interfacial chemistry
for solar energy conversion and electrical energy storage or rational design of materials for
multiple potential energy applications, it is most appropriate to sort the EFRCs by the
following taxonomy, with the appropriate BRN reports listed in parentheses:
- Renewable and Carbon-Neutral Energy (Solar Energy Utilization, Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Biofuels, Geological Sequestration of CO2)
- Energy Efficiency (Clean and Efficient Combustion, Solid State Lighting, Superconductivity)
- Energy Storage (Hydrogen Research, Electrical Energy Storage)
- Crosscutting Science (Catalysis, Materials under Extreme Environments, other)
In addition, the EFRCs span the full range of eligible institutions.
