The DOE program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program and encourages both new and renewal applications.
The BES mission is to support fundamental research to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic, atomic, and molecular levels. BES research provides scientific foundations for DOE missions in energy, the environment, and national security. The portfolio supports fundamental research in materials sciences, chemistry, geosciences, and biosciences.
Applications from multi-disciplinary teams will be required to propose discovery science and use-inspired basic research that addresses priority research directions and opportunities identified by a series of BES workshop and roundtable reports. The focus of the EFRC program is on fundamental scientific research, therefore applications to this FOA must not propose applied research and technology development activities.
BES is soliciting new applications for basic science in two topical areas:
- Co-design of materials and processes to revolutionize microelectronics and/or QIS fabrication, and
- Environmental management.
BES is soliciting renewal applications for basic science in three topical areas:
- Transformative manufacturing,
- Quantum information science (QIS), and
- Environmental management.
**Please note that application requirements for this competition differ from standard Limited Submission competition requirements.
Institutional Limit: 2 Preapplications
Internal Deadline: February 14, 2024, 4:45pm
Funder Preapplication Deadline: February 28, 2024, 5:00pm ET
