The Basic Energy Sciences (BES) informational brochures provide an overview of BES research areas, scientific user
facilities, and the relevance of the research work to practical applications.
Science Serving the Nation, Impacts of Basic Research
This 12-page pamphlet describes how BES-supported research addresses our Nation's energy challenges by enabling
solutions through scientific understanding. Examples illustrate better ways to tap the sun's energy, efficient
approaches to power the future, innovative seeds for clean energy technologies, and other ways of converting new
insights into new technologies.
PDF file of this brochure
(823KB)| Higher resolution (7.2MB)
Basic Energy Sciences 2011 Summary Report
This report describes how BES is organized and operates to accomplish our mission and presents selected
accomplishments to illustrate some exciting new scientific advances that resulted from BES-supported research. Also
included are references to supplementary resources that provide additional information about BES strategic planning,
research, and user facilities.
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Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology in the Department of Energy; Research Directions and Nanoscale Science
Research Centers
This 20-page brochure describes five Nanoscale Science
Research Centers. These user facilities will provide the Nation's research community with world-class resources
for the synthesis, processing, fabrication, and analysis of materials at the nanoscale. Each Center will be housed in
a new building located near one or more existing BES user facilities.
PDF file of this brochure (7.3MB)
User Facilities of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences
A National Resource for Scientific Research
This 72-page booklet describes fourteen highly sophisticated user facilities. These major scientific facilities are synchrotron
radiation light sources, neutron sources, nanoscale science research centers, and electron beam microcharacterization
centers that allow researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to make and examine their samples in unprecedented
detail using leading-edge research equipment and the expertise of the resident facility staff.
PDF file of this brochure (7.4MB) | Higher resolution (58.1MB)
Basic Energy Sciences (BES) at a Glance
The two-page flyer on the left identifies some opportunities, challenges, and benefits of the BES program. The
poster on the right lists some BES historic accomplishments, recent achievements, and major scientific user
facilities.
Flyer (1.0MB) Poster (1.8MB)
Energy Frontier Research Centers
This 20-page brochure describes proposed Energy
Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced
energy technologies for the 21st century. The EFRCs will pursue the fundamental understanding necessary to
meet the global need for abundant, clean, and economical energy.
PDF file of this brochure (1.7MB) | Higher resolution (11.2MB)
Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology in the Department of Energy; Research Directions and Nanoscale Science
Research Centers
This 20-page brochure describes five Nanoscale Science
Research Centers. These user facilities will provide the Nation's research community with world-class resources
for the synthesis, processing, fabrication, and analysis of materials at the nanoscale. Each Center will be housed in
a new building located near one or more existing BES user facilities.
PDF file of this brochure (7.3MB)
Basic Energy Sciences: Serving the Present, Shaping the Future
This 40-page booklet describes successful collaborations between BES-supported researchers and industrial
laboratories and some of the applications that have resulted. Topics include energy efficiency; energy resources;
environmental technology; transportation; manufacturing; chemical processing; biotechnology; ceramics; polymers;
semiconductors; superconductors; measurement and analysis; and metals, alloys and intermetallics.
PDF file of this brochure (13.8MB) | Higher resolution (46.6MB)
Basic Energy Sciences: Research for the Nation's Energy Future
This 8-page brochure provides a brief overview of the BES program, our major activities, our accomplishments and some
examples of how practical benefits derive from the fundamental research supported by BES.
PDF file of this brochure (3.2MB) | Higher resolution (13.9MB)