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Technical Summary Energy Frontier Research Centers Technical Summaries Of ice of Basic Energy Sciences Of ice of Science U.S. Department of Energy January 2010 Current version available at http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html TABLE OF CONTENTS Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) Christopher L. Marshall, Argonne National Laboratory ................................................. 1 Center for Electrical Energy Storage (CEES) Michael Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory ......................................................... 3 Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production Devens Gust, Arizona State University .............................................................................. 5 Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CIS:SEM) Neal R. Armstrong, University of Arizona ........................................................................ 7 Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES) J. C. Séamus Davis, Brookhaven National Laboratory .................................................... 9 Light Matter Interactions in Solar Energy Conversion (LMI-EFRC) Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology ........................................................ 11 Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies Berend Smit, UC Berkeley ............................................................................................... 13 Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM) Vidvuds Ozolins, University of California, Los Angeles................................................. 15 Center for Energy Efficient Materials (CEEM) John Bowers, University of California, Santa Barbara ................................................. 17 Center for Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments (EFree) Ho-kwang Mao, Carnegie Institution ............................................................................. 19 Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule Scale Control James Yardley, Columbia University ............................................................................... 21 Energy Materials Center at Cornell (EMC2) Héctor D. Abruña, Cornell University ............................................................................. 23 Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) Dion Vlachos, University of Delaware ............................................................................ 25 Center for Advanced Biofuel Systems (CABS) Richard T. Sayre, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ............................................ 27 Center for Electrocatalysis, Transport Phenomena, and Materials (EFRC-ETM) for Innovative Energy Storage Dr. Grigorii Soloveichik, General Electric Global Research ......................................... 29 Center for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuel Dieter Wolf, Idaho National Laboratory ......................................................................... 31 i Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC) Donald J. DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ....................................... 33 Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) Victor I. Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory ........................................................ 35 Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes (MIME) Michael Nastasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory ........................................................ 37 Center for Atomic-Level Catalyst Design James Spivey, Louisiana State University ....................................................................... 39 Center for Science of Precision Multifunctional Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES) Gary Rubloff, University of Maryland ............................................................................ 41 Center for Excitonics Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...................................................... 43 Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC) Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...................................................... 45 Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy (PHaSE) Thomas P. Russell and Paul M. Lahti, University of Massachusetts Amherst ............. 47 Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion (CSTEC) Peter F. Green, University of Michigan .......................................................................... 49 Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion (RMSSEC) Donald T. Morelli, Michigan State University ................................................................ 51 Center for Inverse Design Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory .................................................. 53 Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina ............................................................ 55 Non-equilibrium Energy Research Center (NERC) Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Northwestern University ........................................................... 57 Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University ......................................................... 59 Materials Science of Actinides (MSA) Peter C. Burns, University of Notre Dame ...................................................................... 61 Center for Defect Physics in Structural Materials (CDP) G. Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ..................................................... 63 Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center David J. Wesolowski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory .................................................. 65 ii The Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis R. Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory........................................... 67 Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF) Daniel Cosgrove, Penn State University .......................................................................... 69 Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (C-EFRC) Chung K. Law, Princeton University............................................................................... 71 Center for direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) Maureen McCann, Purdue University ............................................................................ 73 Energy Frontier Research Center for Solid-State Lighting Science (SSLS) Jerry A. Simmons, Sandia National Laboratories .......................................................... 75 Heterogeneous Functional Materials Center (HeteroFoaM) Kenneth Reifsnider, University of South Carolina ......................................................... 77 Center for Energy Nanoscience P. Daniel Dapkus, University of Southern California .................................................... 79 Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC) Stacey Bent and Fritz Prinz, Stanford University ........................................................... 81 Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) Clare P. Grey, Stony Brook University ............................................................................ 83 Understanding Charge Separation and Transfer at Interfaces in Energy Materials (EFRC:CST) Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas at Austin.............................................................. 85 Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) Gary A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin ........................................................... 87 Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization (CCHF) T. Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia ......................................................................... 89 Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St. Louis ......................................... 91 INVESTIGATOR INDEX.............................................................................................. 93 INSTITUTION INDEX .................................................................................................. 101 GRAND CHALLENGES INDEX ................................................................................ 103 BASIC RESEARCH NEEDS INDEX ........................................................................ 103 TOPICAL INDEX .......................................................................................................... 104 EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL METHODS INDEX ............................... 106 iii Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) The Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) focuses on advancing the science of catalysis for the efficient conversion of energy resources into usable forms. IACT is a partnership among world-class scientists only through advances in measurement science, at Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern and this is an important aspect of IACT research. University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Closely coupled interpretation, understanding, and Purdue University. Using a multidisciplinary approach prediction of experimental results by computation involving integrated catalyst synthesis, advanced is also critical to advancing catalysis science and is a characterization, catalytic experimentation, and major IACT activity. Finally, the ultimate validation of computation, IACT will address key chemistries our synthesized, characterized, and computationally associated with clean, efficient utilization of the modeled catalysts will come from characterizing their two main chemical
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