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New research centers at SBU, BNL
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April 29, 2009 | 02:44 PM
Congressman Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) announced Tuesday that Long Island will be home to two of the nation's new, multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers. The centers will be located at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The EFRCs, which will pursue advanced scientific research on energy, are being established by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science across the nation.
"Finding practical alternatives to foreign oil is critical both for our future national security and our economic growth," said Bishop in the statement. "This funding will create high-tech jobs on Long Island and bring together the best scientific minds in the pursuit of affordable, American energy technologies that can break our dangerous dependence on Middle East oil."
The 46 EFRCs, to be funded at $2 to 5 million per year each for a planned initial five-year period, were selected from 260 applications. Selection was based on a rigorous merit review process utilizing outside panels composed of scientific experts.
Stony Brook University
SBU will be home to the Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center, which involves a team of experimentalists and theorists at SBU (Clare Grey, director and Peter Khalifah), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Jason Graetz and Xiao-Qing Yang), Rutgers, Binghamton University, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U. Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory and U. Florida.
"This award is a great example of the world-class energy research that is being conducted at Stony Brook University," said SBU President Shirley Strum Kenny in Bishop's statement.
"I am very excited by the opportunity to bring together a team of world experts at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory and other leading U.S. institutions to attack a series of key fundamental research issues that directly impact our ability to use lithium ion batteries in a wider range of applications," said Grey, who will be leading the project.
Brookhaven Lab
BNL will lead the new Center for Emergent Superconductivity. By understanding the fundamental physics of superconductivity, the center will help discover new high-temperature superconductors and improve the performance of known superconductors. The Lab will work with scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois and will perform experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Synchrotron Light Source at BNL, and the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
"We at BNL are delighted to have been chosen to lead a DOE EFRC together with our partners at The University of Illinois and Argonne National Lab," said Doon Gibbs, BNL's Deputy Director for Science and Technology. "Ultimately this research is aimed at improving the capacity, efficiency, and reliability of the electric grid. These are crucial issues for Long Island and New York State, especially as demand continues to rise and as we integrate substantial renewable energy sources like the sun and wind."
According to Bishop, the criterion for providing an EFRC with Recovery Act funding was job creation. The EFRCs chosen for funding provide the most employment for postdoctoral associates, graduate students, undergraduates, and technical staff, in keeping with the act's objective to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery. Additional information is available at www.sc.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html.
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