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Provided below is
a listing of
BES-sponsored workshop reports resulting from
The “Basic Research Needs”
Workshop Series that are
used to help identify research directions for a
decades-to-century energy strategy. These reports
provide the informational basis for the
Energy Frontier
Research Centers and
single-investigator
and small-group research proposals.
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Longer abstracts of these reports
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The Grand Science Challenges Report: |
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Directing Matter and Energy:
Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination
This Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC)
Grand Challenges report identifies the most important scientific questions and
science-driven technical challenges facing BES and describes the importance of
these challenges to advances in disciplinary science, to technology development,
and to energy and other societal needs. The report originated from a January 25,
2005, request from the Office of Science and is the product of numerous BESAC
and Grand Challenges Subcommittee meetings and conferences in 2006–2007.
(more)
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Basic Research Needs Workshop Reports: |
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Basic
Research Needs for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
This report is based on a BES Workshop on
Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, July 31–August 3, 2006,
to identify new, emerging, and scientifically challenging areas in materials and
chemical sciences that have the potential for significant impact on advanced
nuclear energy systems.
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Basic Research Needs: Catalysis for Energy
This report is based on a BES Workshop on Basic
Research Needs in Catalysis for Energy Applications, August 6–8, 2007, to
identify research needs and opportunities for catalysis to meet the nation’s
energy needs, provide an assessment of where the science and technology now
stand, and recommend the directions for fundamental research that should be
pursued to meet the goals described.
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Basic
Research Needs for Clean and Efficient Combustion
of 21st Century Transportation Fuels
This report is based on a BES Workshop on
Clean and Efficient Combustion of 21st Century Transportation Fuels, October
29–November 1, 2006, to identify basic research
needs and opportunities underlying utilization of evolving transportation fuels,
with a focus on new or emerging science challenges that have the potential for
significant long-term impact on fuel efficiency and emissions.
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Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage
This report is based on a BES Workshop on
Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage (EES),
April 2–4, 2007, to identify basic research needs and opportunities underlying
batteries, capacitors, and related EES technologies, with a focus on new or
emerging science challenges with potential for significant long-term impact on
the efficient storage and release of electrical energy.
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Basic Research Needs for Geosciences: Facilitating 21st
Century Energy Systems
This report is based on a BES Workshop on
Basic Research Needs for Geosciences: Facilitating 21st Century Energy Systems,
February 21–23, 2007, to identify research areas in geosciences, such as
behavior of multiphase fluid-solid systems on a variety of scales, chemical
migration processes in geologic media, characterization of geologic systems, and
modeling and simulation of geologic systems, needed for improved energy systems.
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Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy
This report is based upon the BES Workshop on Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Use, held May 13–15, 2003, to
identify fundamental research needs and opportunities in hydrogen production, storage, and use, with a focus on new, emerging and scientifically
challenging areas that have the potential to have significant impact in science and technologies.
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Basic Research Needs for Materials under Extreme Environments
This report is based on a BES Workshop on Basic
Research Needs for Materials under
Extreme Environments, June 11–13, 2007, to
evaluate the potential for developing revolutionary new materials that will meet
demanding future energy requirements that expose materials to environmental
extremes.
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Basic
Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization
This report is based on a BES Workshop on Solar
Energy Utilization, April 18–21, 2005, to examine the challenges and opportunities for the development of solar energy as a competitive energy source and to identify the technical barriers to large-scale implementation of solar energy and the basic research directions showing promise to overcome them.
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Basic
Research Needs for Solid-State Lighting
This report is based on a BES Workshop on Solid-State
Lighting (SSL),
May 22–24, 2006, to examine
the gap separating current state-of-the-art SSL technology from an energy
efficient, high-quality, and economical SSL technology suitable for general
illumination; and to identify the most significant fundamental scientific
challenges and research directions that would enable that gap to be bridged.
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Basic
Research Needs for Superconductivity
This report is based on a BES Workshop on Superconductivity,
May 8–10, 2006, to examine
the prospects for superconducting grid technology and its potential for
significantly increasing grid capacity, reliability, and efficiency to meet the
growing demand for electricity over the next century.
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The Foundational Basic Research Needs
Report: |
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Basic Research Needs
to Assure a Secure Energy Future
This report is based upon a Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee workshop
that was held in October 2002 to assess the basic research needs for energy technologies to assure a reliable, economic, and environmentally sound energy supply for the future.
The workshop discussions produced a total of 37 proposed research
directions.
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BES reports not part of the
"Basic Research Needs” Workshop series are available
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