Virtual special issue on catalysis at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories

Journal Article · Thu Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b00823· OSTI ID:1252154

Pruski, Marek ^[1]; Sadow, Aaron D. ^[1]; Slowing, Igor I. ^[1]; Marshall, Christopher L. ^[2]; Stair, Peter ^[2]; Rodriguez, Jose ^[3]; Harris, Alex ^[3]; Somorjai, Gabor A. ^[4]; Biener, Juergen ^[5]; Matranga, Christopher ^[6]; Wang, Congjun ^[6]; Schaidle, Joshua A. ^[7]; Beckham, Gregg T. ^[7]; Ruddy, Daniel A. ^[7]; Deutsch, Todd ^[7]; Alia, Shaun M. ^[7]; Narula, Chaitanya ^[8]; Overbury, Steve ^[8]; Toops, Todd ^[8]; Bullock, R. Morris ^[9] ; Peden, Charles H. F. ^[9]; Wang, Yong ^[9]; Allendorf, Mark D. ^[10]; Norskov, Jens ^[11]; Bligaard, Thomas ^[11]

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1. Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
6. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Albany, OR (United States)
7. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
9. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
10. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
11. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Catalysis research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Laboratories covers a wide range of research topics in heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous/molecular catalysis, biocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and surface science. Because much of the work at National Laboratories is funded by DOE, the research is largely focused on addressing DOE’s mission to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. The catalysis research carried out at the DOE National Laboratories ranges from very fundamental catalysis science, funded by DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), to applied research and development (R&D) in areas such as biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals, fuel cells, and vehicle emission control with primary funding from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. National Laboratories are home to many DOE Office of Science national scientific user facilities that provide researchers with the most advanced tools of modern science, including accelerators, colliders, supercomputers, light sources, and neutron sources, as well as facilities for studying the nanoworld and the terrestrial environment. National Laboratory research programs typically feature teams of researchers working closely together, often joining scientists from different disciplines to tackle scientific and technical problems using a variety of tools and techniques available at the DOE national scientific user facilities. Along with collaboration between National Laboratory scientists, interactions with university colleagues are common in National Laboratory catalysis R&D. In some cases, scientists have joint appointments at a university and a National Laboratory. This ACS Catalysis Virtual Special Issue {http://pubs.acs.org/page/accacs/vi/doe-national-labs} was motivated by Christopher Jones and Rhea Williams, who sent out the invitations to all of DOE’s National Laboratories where catalysis research is conducted. All manuscripts submitted went through the standard rigorous peer review required for publication in ACS Catalysis. A total of 29 papers are published in this virtual special issue, which features some of the recent catalysis research at 11 of DOE’s National Laboratories: Ames Laboratory (Ames), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). In this preface, we briefly discuss the history and impact of catalysis research at these particular DOE National Laboratories, where the majority of catalysis research continues to be conducted.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725; AC05-76RL01830; AC36-08GO28308; AC02-76SF00515; AC52-07NA27344
• OSTI ID: 1252154
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1469455; OSTI ID: 1770173
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-117528; PNNL-SA-124616; NREL/JA-5100-70005; LLNL-JRNL-742033; KC0302010; ERKCC96
• Journal Information: ACS Catalysis, Vol. 6, Issue 5; ISSN 2155-5435
• Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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