Strategic Plan for the Federal R&D Program in Nanotechnology (Dec 2004)
The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology has released its 2004 Strategic Plan for the Federal R&D program in nanotechnology. This report, which was developed with the support of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, updates the original strategic plan of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) for the next 5 to 10 years and contains the vision, goals and plans for specific activities by which the goals will be accomplished by the 22 agencies participating in the NNI.
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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.
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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.
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Scientific Research Facilities: A National Resource
This 44-page booklet describes seventeen highly sophisticated user facilities that enable scientists to carry out experiments that they cannot otherwise perform at their own research institutions. These major facilities are synchrotron radiation light sources, high-flux neutron sources, electron beam microcharacterization centers and other specialized centers which allow researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to examine their samples in unprecidented detail using leading-edge research equipment and the expertise of the resident facility staff.
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Opportunities for Discovery: Theory and Computation in Basic Energy Sciences
This report is based on the deliberations of the BESAC Subcommittee on Theory and Computation following meetings on February 22 and April 17-16, 2004, to obtain testimony and discuss input from the scientific community on research directions for theory and computation to advance the scientific mission of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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Nanoscience Research for Energy Needs
This report is based upon a BES-cosponsored National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Workshop held March 16-18, 2004, by the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to address the Grand Challenge in Energy Conversion and Storage set out in the NNI. This report was released on June 24, 2004, during the Department of Energy NanoSummit.
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Theory and Modeling in Nanoscience
This report is based upon the May 10-11, 2002, workshop conducted jointly by the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee and the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committees to identify challenges and opportunities for theory, modeling, and simulation in nanoscience and nanotechnology and to investigate the growing and promising role of applied mathematics and computer science in meeting those challenges.
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Opportunities for Catalysis in the 21st Century
This report is based upon a Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee subpanel workshop that was held May 14-16, 2002, to identify research directions to better understand how to design catalyst structures to control catalytic activity and selectivity.
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Complex Systems: Science for the 21st Century
This report is based upon a BES workshop on March 5-6, 1999, which was designed to help define new scientific directions related to complex systems in order to create new understanding about the nano world and complicated, multicomponent structures.
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Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Research Directions
This report illustrates the wide range of research opportunities and challenges in nanoscale science, engineering and technology. It was prepared in 1999 in connection with the interagency national research initiative on nanotechnology.
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