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2009 Program - APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 15, 2009.

Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy recently put it ”…of the biggest challenges we face as Americans today and in the coming decades is that of energy security” And “current technologies cannot meet this challenge, and incremental improvements in these technologies will not suffice. We need transformational discoveries, leading to what I call disruptive technologies - technologies that fundamentally change the rules of the game - and that means we need fundamental breakthroughs”. 

Research in alternative energies and energy reduction technologies is rapidly becoming one of the most important topics in engineering and science and will remain at the top of national research priorities for quite some time. Novel alternative energies will not only provide for a high standard of living after the depletion of crude oil and provide more independence from foreign oil, but will also decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases from non-renewable sources.

1. Fuel savings through drag reduction in high deformation rate turbulent flows using novel nanomaterials (Antony Beris)
2. Synthesis and characterization of new vanadium- and niobium-substituted bismuth molybdates (Douglas J. Buttrey)
3. Developing electrocatalysts for hydrogen PEM fuel cells (Jingguang Chen)
4. Orienting block copolymer thin films to generate nanostructured conducting membranes (Thomas H. Epps)
5. High-throughput analysis of NH3 decomposition catalysts (Jochen Lauterbach)
6. Acid catalysis with novel mesoporous carbons (Raul Lobo)
7. Modified aqueous gels for conducting devices (Raul Lobo and Eric Furst)
8. Nanoparticle self assembly in polymer-based photovoltaic devices (Michael Mackay and Thomas Epps)
9. Biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals (Dion G. Vlachos)
10. Directed Self Assembly of Photonic Nanomaterials (Norman J. Wagner and Michael Mackay)

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