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The Office of Basic Energy Sciences supports research to advance the
scientific and technical knowledge and skills needed to develop and use
new and existing energy resources in an economically viable and
environmentally sound manner. Areas of interest are:
- Materials Sciences: The objective of the Materials Sciences
program is to increase the understanding of phenomena and properties
important to materials behavior that will contribute to meeting the
needs of present and future energy technologies. It is comprised of
the subfields metallurgy, ceramics, solid state physics, materials
chemistry, and related disciplines where the emphasis is on the
science of materials.
- Chemical Sciences: The objective of this program is to expand,
through support of basic research, knowledge of various areas of
chemistry, physics and chemical engineering with a
goal of contributing to new or improved processes for developing and
using domestic energy resources in an efficient and environmentally
sound manner.
- Energy Biosciences: The Energy Biosciences program supports
fundamental research needed to develop future biotechnologies related
to energy. The supported research focuses on the biological
mechanisms occurring in plants and microorganisms. Plants and microbes
fit readily into the energy context by virtue of serving as renewable
resources for fuel and other fossil resource substitutes, as vehicles
to restore previously disrupted environmental sites, and as potential
components of industrial processes to produce new products and
chemicals in an environmentally benign manner.
- Geosciences: The Geosciences Research Program focuses on basic,
or fundamental, research dealing with the response of natural rocks,
minerals, and fluids to natural or anthropogenic perturbations.
The emphasis is on processes active in the near-surface region of the
earth's crust which modify and alter the physical and chemical state
of earth materials.
- Engineering: The major goals of the Engineering Research Program
are to extend the body
of knowledge underlying current energy engineering practice and to broaden
the technical and conceptual base for solving future engineering problems
in energy technologies.
NERSC 3 Greenbook
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Rick A Kendall
7/13/1998