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Stories of Discovery & Innovation: From Human Genome to Materials "Genome"

Government initiative seeks to speed the pace of materials discovery and innovation. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported in part by the Center for Electrical Energy Storage, an EFRC led by Michael Thackeray at Argonne National Laboratory.

DOE Awards $100 Million for Innovative Energy Research

Projects will help enable advances in energy production and use.

Getting More Electricity out of Solar Cells

New MIT model can guide design of solar cells that produce less waste heat, more useful current. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported in part by the Center for Excitonics (CE), an EFRC led by Marc Baldo at MIT.

April 2014 EFRC Newsletter

The 11^th edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online on April 30, 2014.

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Squaring the Circle in Biofuels?

Researchers produce a new type of plant fiber that supports normal growth while easing the difficulties of conversion to fuel. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported in part by the Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio), an EFRC led by Maureen McCann at Purdue University.

2014 Princeton CEFRC Summer School on Combustion

The Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center at Princeton University will host a summer school on Combustion from June 22-27, 2014.

January 2014 EFRC Newsletter

The 10^th edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online on January 30, 2014.

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Harvesting the Sun's Energy Through Heat as Well as Light

New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported in part by the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC), an EFRC led by Gang Chen at MIT.

Observing the Sparks of Life

EFRC researchers isolate a photosynthetic complex — arguably the most important bit of organic chemistry on the planet — in its complete functioning state. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported in part by the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), an EFRC led by Robert Blankenship at Washington University in St. Louis.

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DOE to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced a proposed $100 million in FY2014 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy. Research supported by this initiative will enable fundamental advances in energy production and use.

September 2013 EFRC Newsletter

The 9^th edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online on September 25, 2013.

People’s Choice Voting for the Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge

The Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge invited the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers to represent their science in images, cartoons, photos, words and original paintings, but any descriptions or words could only use the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language, with the addition of one word important to each of the EFRCs and the mission of DOE: energy.