Energy Frontier Research Centers:Energy Frontier Research Centers:UpdateUpdate

Dr. Altaf H. CarimDr. Altaf H. CarimOffice of Basic Energy SciencesOffice of Basic Energy Sciences

Office of ScienceOffice of ScienceU.S. Department of EnergyU.S. Department of Energy

Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) MeetingJuly 9, 2009 Bethesda, MD

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ContextContext

EFRCs interlock scientifically with existing BES programs; they are neither completely separate and disconnected, nor overlapping and duplicative

EFRCs will operate differently than, and expectations are different compared to, single-investigator grants, small-group awards, facilities operation, etc.BES has had a few examples of funded programs on a similar scale, but no prior portfolio of this magnitude.

Interdisciplinarity, size, number, visibility

Some motivations for theEFRC management structure:

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The Basic Energy Sciences The Basic Energy Sciences EFRC management teamEFRC management team

Altaf H. (Tof) CarimTeam lead(Scientific UserFacilities Division)

JohnVetrano

(Materials Sciences & Engineering Division)

MaryGalvin

Michael Casassa

Mark Pederson

(Chemical Sciences, Geosciences,& Biosciences Division)

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Groupings are based in part on topical relationships, but also involve a variety of practical and administrative considerations

Some activities, such as periodic Directors’ meetings, will involve all EFRCs, while others may be organized by groups or subsets thereof.

Groups of EFRCs and their Groups of EFRCs and their primary BES points of contactprimary BES points of contact

Red (Vetrano) Orange (Casassa) Yellow (Galvin) Blue (Pederson)

H. Abruña - Cornell P. Burns - Notre DameC. Grey - Stony BrookH.-K. Mao - CIWM. Nastasi - LANLF. Prinz - StanfordK. Reifsnider - South

CarolinaG. Rubloff - MarylandG. Soloveichik - GEM. Stocks - ORNLM. Thackeray - ANLD. Wolf - INL

R. Blankenship - Washington U.

M. Wasielewski - Northwestern

D. Gust - ASUT. Meyer - UNC

Chapel HillR. Sayre, Danforth Plant

Science Center M. McCann - PurdueD. Cosgrove - PSUC. Law - PrincetonB. Gunnoe - U. Va. M. Bullock - PNNLD. Vlachos - DelawareJ. Spivey - La. StateC. Marshall - ANL

N. Armstrong - ArizonaH. Atwater - Cal TechM. Baldo - MITP. Barbara - TexasJ. Bowers - UCSBG. Chen - MITD. Dapkus - USCB. Grzybowski -

NorthwesternV. Klimov - LANLJ. Yardley - Columbia

P. Green - MichiganA. Zunger - NRELD. Morelli - MI StateT. Russell - U. Mass.J. Simmons - SNLS. Davis - BNLV. Ozolins - UCLAG. Pope - UT AustinB. Smit - UC BerkeleyD. DePaolo - LBNLD. Wesolowski - ORNL

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Michael Thackeray, ANLCenter for Electrical Energy Storage: Tailored Interfaces

Gary Rubloff, Univ. of MarylandScience of Precision Multifunctional Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage

Grigorii Soloveichik, General Electric Global Research

Center for Electrocatalysis, Transport Phenomena,and Materials (CETM) for Innovative Energy Storage

Clare P. Grey, Stony Brook Univ.Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center

Héctor Abruña, Cornell Univ.Nanostructured Interfaces for Energy Generation,Conversion, and Storage

Ken Reifsnider, Univ. of South CarolinaScience Based Nano-Structure Design and Synthesis of

Heterogeneous Functional Materials for Energy Systems

Energy Storage

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Dieter Wolf, Idaho National LabCenter for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuel

Peter Burns, Univ. of Notre DameMaterials Science of Actinides

Malcolm Stocks, ORNLEnergy Frontier Center for Defect Physics in Structural Materials

Michael Nastasi, LANLExtreme Environment-Tolerant Materials via

Atomic Scale Design of Interfaces

David Mao, Carnegie Institute of WashingtonCenter for Energy Frontier Research inExtreme Environments (EFree)

Fritz Prinz, Stanford Univ.Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion

Advanced Energy Materials

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Robert Blankenship, Washington University in St. Louis Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center

Devens Gust, Arizona State UniversityCenter for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production

Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern UniversityArgonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center

Tom Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSolar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics

Solar Fuel Production

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Richard Sayre, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Center for Advanced Biofuels Systems

Daniel Cosgrove, Pennsylvania State UniversityCenter for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation

Maureen McCann, Purdue UniversityCenter for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels

Chung Law, Princeton UniversityCombustion Science

Biofuels and Combustion

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Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization

Morris Bullock, PNNLCenter for Molecular Electrocatalysis

Dion Vlachos, University of DelawareCatalysis Energy Center

Jerry Spivey, Louisiana State UniversityCenter for Atomic-Level Catalyst Design

Chris Marshall, ANLInstitute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations

Catalysis for New Fuels

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Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solid-State Solar-Thermal

Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center)

Daniel Dapkus, University of Southern CaliforniaEmerging Materials for Solar EnergyConversion and Solid State Lighting

John Bowers, U.C. at Santa BarbaraCenter on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications

Bartosz Grzybowski, Northwestern UniversityCenter for Integrated Training in Far-From-Equilibriumand Adaptive Materials (CITFAM)

Harry Atwater, California Institute of TechnologyLight-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion

James Yardley, Columbia UniversityRe-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency

Through Molecule-Scale Control

Materials Design: Light & Energy Conversion

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Neal R. Armstrong, University of ArizonaCenter for Interface Science:Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials

Paul Barbara, University of Texas, AustinUnderstanding Charge Separation and Transfer

at Interfaces in Energy Materials and Devices (EFRC:CST)

Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics

Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Excitonics

Materials Design:Interfaces and Physics

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Donald Morelli, Michigan St. Univ.Revolutionary Materials for Solid StateEnergy Conversion

Alex Zunger, NRELCenter for Inverse Design

Peter Green, Univ of MichiganSolar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials

Tom Russell, Univ. of MassachusettsPolymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy

Jerry Simmons, SNLSolid State Lighting Science

Séamus Davis, BNLCenter for Emergent Superconductivity

Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Transport

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Berend Smit, UC-BerkeleyCenter for Gas Separations

Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies

Gary Pope, Univ. of Texas, AustinFrontiers of Subsurface Energy Security

Donald DePaolo, LBNLCenter for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2

David Wesolowski, ORNL Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center

Vidvuds Ozolins, UCLAMolecularly Assembled Material Architectures for Solar

Energy Production, Storage, and Carbon Capture

Carbon Captureand Management

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COMMUNICATION:Establish EFRC Web sitesMonthly management conference calls

(by topical groups)Periodic Directors’ meetingsInformal site visits by BESEFRCs Science Forum

(FY11, 4th Quarter, w/BESAC)Energy Frontiers workshop

(FY13, tentatively 3rd Quarter)BES Contractors’ meetings, by topic

REVIEW SCHEDULE:Initial reverse site management/operations review

– FY10 3rd/4th QuarterInterim science and management review

– FY12

EFRCs Management TimelineEFRCs Management Timeline

FY09FY09 FY10FY10 FY11FY11 FY12FY12 FY13FY13 FY14FY14 FY15FY15

Initial Award Period

Periodic Directors’ Meeting(tied to alternate BESAC meetings)

Reverse Site Peer Reviews (Management/Operations focus)

On Site Peer Reviews(Science focus)

EFRCs Science Forum

Energy Frontiers Workshop

BES Topical Contractors Meetings(as appropriate)

20092009 20102010 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014

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Primary objective:Share information and expectations regarding management and operations of the EFRCs, to contribute to their success

Components of this:– Familiarize EFRCs with BES management structure and expectations– Interaction of EFRC directors with each other & BES points of contact– Information gathering, documentation, and distribution– Timeline for meetings, reviews, and other activities– Discussion of reporting and change control needs– Address communications expectations and issues– Share information on complementary tools and opportunities

First EFRC Directors’ MeetingFirst EFRC Directors’ MeetingJuly 8, 2009 – key messagesJuly 8, 2009 – key messages

The overall EFRC portfolio will be actively managed by BES

EFRC Directors must have the authority and responsibility to actively manage their own centers