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Title: Basic Research Needs for Innovation and Discovery of Transformative Experimental Tools

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1616508· OSTI ID:1616508
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  7. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (United States)
  8. Fritz Haber Inst., Berlin (Germany)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  10. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  11. Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
  12. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  13. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  14. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  15. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  16. Dept. of Energy (DOE), Washington DC (United States). Office of Science. Basic Energy Sciences
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The scientific discoveries that expand the frontiers of human understanding, and that lead to the innovations of our technological world, require scientific tools and instrumentation to enable observation and manipulation of the physical world. As science advances, so too must its tools; the quest for deeper scientific insights and the drive to control chemistry and materials at the atomic and molecular levels require increasingly powerful and sophisticated instruments. A secure energy future requires technologies that use existing resources more efficiently, harness renewable resources, and efficiently store energy. The urgent demand for new energy technologies has ushered in a new era in scientific pursuit to decipher the complexity found at the core of chemical and materials processes, as articulated by the basic energy science research community in its series of Basic Research Needs (BRN) workshops. Historically, novel experimental tools and methods have been foundational in both scientific and technological advances — ranging from high-resolution microscopes that “see” atomic structures, to lithography that has enabled advances in semiconductors and computing. Today, expanding the frontiers of basic research requires new generations of instrumentation to reveal the intricacies of complex materials and chemical systems; energy systems in realistic working environments; and systems that are dynamical, far from equilibrium, and extremely heterogeneous. A concerted effort to invent, design, and build scientific instrumentation will enable new scientific breakthroughs and transformative technologies to address the most pressing energy challenges of the 21st century. To identify the highest priorities for the instrumentation innovation and development needed to address grand challenges in energy sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences sponsored a workshop entitled, “Basic Research Needs for Innovation and Discovery of Transformative Experimental Tools” on June 1–3, 2016 near Washington, D.C. The workshop was attended by approximately 100 leading national and international scientific experts representing areas of basic energy sciences in chemistry, materials, physics, and biology, and included a mix of experimentalists and theorists.

Research Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC) (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI ID:
1616508
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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