Oak Ridge Laboratory to house two new ERFC projects
In Tennessee, Oak Ridge Laboratory will house two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced this week by US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. The projects are among 32 ERFC projects awarded $100 million by the Department of Energy to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.
The two Oak Ridge EFRCs are a renewal of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, which is led by David Wesolowski, and a new award to the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE) Center, led by Yanwen Zhang.
ORNL scientists also partnered on successful proposals to lay the groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences and extreme environments. Those proposals include three new projects (led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the State University of New York–Stony Brook, and Pennsylvania State University) and three renewals (led by Washington University in St. Louis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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