The Department of Energy (DOE)
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC)
**Funding Opportunity---University-wide Internal selection process required*
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Sponsor's website
Dean of Research Internal Deadline: May 20, 2008 12 noon
(see
internal submission guidelines below).
Number of applicants
permitted: 3
Stanford and SLAC will be allowed to submit a total of three proposals.
$2-$5 million per year over a five year period.
Eligibility
Stanford faculty with PI eligibility
Program
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences announces the initiation of 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.
Under this initiative, universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for profit firms will be invited to compete, singly or in partnerships, to establish an EFRC.
These integrated, multi-investigator Centers will conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more of several "grand challenges" recently identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community. The purpose of these Centers will be to integrate the talents and expertise of leading scientists in a setting desinged to accelerated research toward meeting our critical energency challenges. The EFRCs will harness the most basic and advanced discovery research in a concerted effort to establish the scientific foundation for a fundamentally new U.S. energy economy.
Grand challenges (see pages 3 & 4 of the program announcement):
How do we control material processes at the level of electrons?
How do we design and perfect atom- and energy-efficient synthesis of revolutionary new forms of matter with tailored properties?
How do remarkable properties of matter emerge from complex correlations of atomic or electronic constituents and how can we control these properties?
How can we master energy and information on the nanoscale to create new technologies wth capabilities rivaling those of living things?
How do we characterize and control matter away-especially very far away-from equilibrium?
Examples of EFRC Research Focus Areas (see detailed descriptions on pages 5 to 10 the program announcement)
Direct conversion of solar energy to electricity and chemical fuels
Understanding of how biological feedstocks are converted into portable fuels
A new generation of radiation-tolerant materials and chemical separation processes for fission applications
Addressing fundamental knowledge gaps in energy storage
Transforming energy utilization and transmission
Science-based geological carbon sequestration
Internal Stanford Letter of Intent Guidelines
Letter of intent deadline Dean of Research Office:
By May 20, 2008, 12 noon, please deliver the original letter of intent and 6 copies to:
Elizabeth Lasensky
Dean of Research Office
Building 60, Room 223 (next to Memorial Church)
723-9034, lasensky@stanford.edu
Your letter of intent should be 3 pages and should include:
1. Title of the Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC)
2. Estimated cost of the project
3. PI name/contact information + names of faculty co-investigators
4. List of institutions that are expected to be involved in the planned application in addition to Stanford/SLAC
5. Brief description of the strategic plan, including the long term vision and goals for the proposed EFRC as well as the objectives for the initial five year period of the project
6. Overview of the research plan
Selection Process:
This summary will be used for review and selection of proposals for submission by Stanford and SLAC if more than three letters of intent are received. The letter of intent to DOE will be five-six pages containing the same content.
