FY 2009 LDRD Director's R&D Fund Projects

Listed below by initiative are the titles and principal investigators of the projects being supported by the ORNL LDRD Director’s R&D Fund during FY 2009.

Advanced Energy Systems Initiative

  • L05011, “Nanocomposites for Advanced Thermoelectrics,” Brian Sales
  • L05015, “Irradiation of Advanced Light Water Reactor Fuel in the High Flux Isotope Reactor,” Joel McDuffee
  • L05057, “Automated Freeform Construction Technologies and Materials,” Francois Pin
  • L05075, “High-Performance Proton-Conducting Fuel Cell Electrolytes Based on Task-Specific Protic Ionic Liquids,” Sheng Dai
  • 05099, “Manufacturable Nanotransistors for Advanced Analog Circuits,” Charles Britton Jr
  • L05115, “Revolutionary Method for Increasing Efficiency of White-Light, Quantum-Dot, Light Emitting Diodes,” Chad Duty
  • L05179, “Unmixed Combustion for High-Efficiency Energy Conversion,” Josh Pihl
  • L05214, “Development of Cermet High-Level Waste Forms,” Robert Jubin
  • L05224, “Investigation of Molten Salt Thermal Performance in Pebble Beds Using Unique Heating Techniques,” Graydon Yoder Jr
  • L05266, “Liquid Membrane Facilitated Solvent Extraction for Americium Separation from Spent Nuclear Fuel,” Melanie Debusk
  • L05349, “Variable Valve Actuation to Enable Highly Efficient Engines,” James Szybist
  • L05369, “Design of Evanescent-Wave Power Transfer for Parked and Moving Hybrid Electric Vehichles,” Matthew Scudiere

Emerging Science and Technology for Sustainable Bioenergy Initiative

  • L05063, “Scale-Dependent Metrics for Bioenergy: Land-Nutrient-Water Interactions under Future Energy Scenarios,” Virginia Dale
  • L05200, “Evolution and Optimization of the Biofuel Supply Chain,” Michael Hilliard
  • L05238, “Spatiotemporal Data Mining Framework for Monitoring Biomass at Regional and Global Scales,” Ranga Vatsavai
  • L05311, “Spatial Modeling of Geographic Patterns in Biodiversity and Biofuel Production,” Yetta Jager
  • L05355, “Architecture for Advancing Scientific Collaboration and Promoting Citizen Science,” Daniel Getman
  • General Category
  • L05104, “Imaging of Molecular Structure and Electron-Driven Dynamics,” Mark Bannister
  • L05315, “Active Control of Surface Plasmonics with Ferroelectricity,” Jian Shen
  • L05374, “Materials Behavior Underlying the Electrochemical Performance of Advanced Batteries,” Sheng Dai

National Security Science and Technology Initiative

  • L05068, “Novel Alternative Signatures for Radiation Detection,” John Neal
  • L05142, “Enabling Ubiquitous Information Flows: Real-Time Data-Streams Instantiation and Agent-Based Forward-Analysis,” Mallikarjun Shankar
  • L05216, “Multi-Photon Entangled States for Quantum Information Science,” Warren Grice
  • L05228, “Integrated Navigation System for GPS-Denied Environments,” Stephen Smith
  • L05281, “Distributed Computational Intelligence for Active Response to Cyber-Threat,” Louis Wilder

Neutron Sciences Initiative

  • L00015, “A Robust Polymer Scaffold System for Bio-Inspired Membranes,” John Ankner
  • L00019, “Probing Molecular Interaction Between Microbial-Cell Protein and Mineral Surfaces With Neutrons,” Liyuan Liang
  • L00022, “High-Throughput Neutron Crystallography for Macromolecular Structure, Function, and Design,” Dean Myles
  • L00023, “Magnetic Structure Under Simultaneous Ultrahigh-Pressure and High-Temperature Conditions: 200 kbar and 1500 K,” Christopher Tulk
  • L05004, “Neutron Scattering Study of Magnetic and Spin Dynamic Behavior in Amine-Stabilized Transition Metal and Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles,” Andrew Christianson
  • L05028, “Rotating Solid Target Design Development for SNS,” Thomas McManamy
  • L05029, “Pushing the Limits: High-Impact Neutron Protein Crystallography,” Leighton Coates
  • L05045, “Neutron Structural Virology,” Flora Meilleur
  • L05088, “Inelastic Neutron Scattering from Magnetic Heterostructures,” Randy Fishman
  • L05125, “An Experimental, Theoretical, and Molecular-Modeling Approach to Characterize the Structure and Dynamics of Charged PAMAM Dendrimers in Solution,” Wei-Ren Chen
  • L05140, “Mapping the Protein Structure-Function-Dynamics Landscape,” Pratul Agarwal
  • L05225, “Dynamically Polarized Samples for Studying Biological and Soft Condensed Matters,” Jinkui Zhao
  • L05227, “Fundamental Neutron Scattering Studies of the Molecular Mobility and Interactions between Natural Porous Media and Greenhouse Gases,” Yuri Melnichenko
  • L05246, “Neutron Scattering and Osmotic Stress to Study Intrinsically Disordered Proteins,” Christopher Stanley
  • L05272, “A Study of Real-Space Neutron Scattering Methods,” Lee Robertson
  • L05306, “Structure and Structure Evolution in Amorphous Materials: Fundamental Understanding of Materials Behaviors Far from Equilibrium,” Xun-Li Wang
  • L05376, “Protein Dynamics: Neutron Scattering Methodological Development,” Jeremy Smith

Science for Extreme Environments: Advanced Materials and Interfacial Processes for Energy Initiative

  • L00027, “Fundamental Mechanisms of Self-Assembly of Ordered Nanostructures in Heterogeneous Ceramic Materials,” George Stocks
  • L00031, “Energy Flow and Conversion on the Molecular Level: A View at Molecular Photoelectromechanical Machines,” Sergei Kalinin
  • L00032, “Nanostructured Thermoelectrics for Power Generation: Smaller is Cooler,” Rongying Jin
  • L00041, “Smart Materials Toward a New Paradigm of Super-Efficient Separations Using only Energy Input: Conformational Switching Based on Magnetic Nanoparticles,” Bruce Moyer
  • L00045, “Molecular-Fragment Database for De Novo Structure-Based Design,” Benjamin Hay
  • L00050, “Structure of Fluids Confined in Nanoporous Materials using Neutron Scattering,” Gernot Rother
  • L05034, “Single Molecular Imaging and Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Molecules,” Minghu Pan
  • L05054, “Bandgap Narrowing of Oxide Semiconductors Using Noncompensated n-p Co-Doping for Enhanced Solar Energy Utilization,” Zhenyu Zhang
  • L05061, “Nanostructured Mesoporous Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction,” A Buchanan III
  • L05079, “Supra-Macromolecular Assembly of Artificial Photoconversion Units,” Hugh O'Neill
  • L05090, “Synthesis, Assembly and Nanoscale Characterization of Confined, Conjugated and Charged Polymers for Advanced Energy Systems,” Jimmy Mays
  • L05195, “Controlled Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Robust Organic Architectures,” Benjamin Hay
  • L05236, “Understanding Interfacial Electrochemical Phenomena in Advanced Energy Storage Capacitors using Spectroscopy and Modeling,” Kevin Shuford
  • L05285, “Mapping Energy Transformations Pathways and Dissipation on the Nanoscale,” Sergei Kalinin
  • L05309, “Interfacial Reactions of Metal-Fluid Systems at Extreme Conditions,” David Cole
  • L05342, “New Density Functionals for Ab Initio Calculations Derived from Many-Body Theory,” Fernando Reboredo
  • L05373, “Investigating the Role of Physical Interactions and Block Sequence Tailoring on Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Micellar Systems,” S Kilbey, II
  • L05375, “Attoliter Droplets On-Demand in Nanochannel Arrays: New Opportunities for Investigating Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis in Nanoscale Reactors,” Pat Collier

Systems Biology: Enabling Biotechnological Solutions to National Challenges Related to Energy and Environment Initiative

  • L00020, “Systemic Approaches in Recombinant Zymomonas mobilis to the Regulation of Ethanol Fermentation,” Steven Brown
  • L00021, “Unraveling the Regulatory and Biosynthetic Genes that Control Cellulose Production in the Model Bioenergy Crop Populus,” Udaya Kalluri
  • L00040, “Electricity and Biohydrogen Production via a Systems-Level Understanding of Microbial Fuel Cells,” Abhijeet Borole
  • L00043, “Microfluidic Platform for Individual Microbe Capture, Cultivation, and Selective Release,” Martin Keller
  • L00044, “Methodological Development of Computer Simulation in Molecular Biophysics,” Jeremy Smith
  • L05055, “Host Genetic Diversity as a Variable Selection Environment for the Gut Microbiome,” Elissa Chesler
  • L05133, “Carbon Drivers of the Microbe-Switchgrass Rhizosphere Interface,” Christopher Schadt
  • L05169, “Design, Simulate, and Prototype Facilities for Macroscale Experiments of Ecosystem Response to Climate Change,” Paul Hanson
  • L05199, “Next-Generation Computational System for Biological Annotation,” Robert Cottingham
  • L05201, “Development of Novel Biocatalysts for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Synthesis Gas,” James Elkins
  • L05221, “A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic and Energetic Interdependencies in the Ignicoccus-Nanoarchaeum System,” Mircea Podar
  • L05256, “Developing a Systems Biology Approach for Linking Genetic and Environmental Constraints to Primary Productivity in Model and Nonmodel Species,” David Weston

Ultrascale Computing Initiative

  • L00014, “An Evolutionary Framework for Porting Applications to Petascale Platforms,” Kalyan Perumalla
  • L00016, “Development of a Global Advanced Nuclear Fuel Rod Model,” Srdjan Simunovic
  • L05038, “Preparing for New Programming Languages for Ultrascale Applications,” David Bernholdt
  • L05040, “A Petascale Parallel Programming Environment for Scientific Software,” Edoardo Apra
  • L05043, “Global Climate Feedbacks and the Development of Biofuel Climate Scenarios,” John Drake
  • L05046, “Overcoming the Barrier to Ultrascale Climate Simulation,” James White III
  • L05047, “Cost and Effectiveness of Fault Tolerance in Quantum Computing,” Ryan Bennink
  • L05095, “A Knowledge Discovery Framework for Americaís Transportation System,” Budhendra Bhaduri
  • L05109, “Joining Ultrascale Computing and Neutron Scattering Studies to Enable Revolutionary New Materials Development,” Thomas Maier
  • L05237, “Data Analytics for Medicine using Semi-Supervised Learning (DAMSEL),” Barbara Beckerman
  • L05240, “A Hybrid Continuous/Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation for Next-Generation Multiphysics Computational Fluid Dynamics Solvers,” Judith Hill
  • L05243, “MPI-3: Programming Model Support for Ultrascale Computer Systems,” Richard Graham
  • L05259, “Computer Design and Predictive Simulation of High-Capacity, Cyclable, and Versatile Nanoporous Supercapacitors for Energy Storage Applications,” Vincent Meunier
  • L05274, “Inferring and Predicting the Social Dynamics of Groups via Psycho-Textual and Communications Flow Analysis,” Christopher Griffin
  • L05282, “High-Throughput Computational Screening Approach for Systems Medicine,” Pratul Agarwal
  • L05294, “Denovo: The Next-Generation, High-Performance Computing Solver for Multiscale Nuclear Energy Transport,” Kevin Clarno

Understanding Climate Change Impact: Energy, Carbon, and Water Initiative

  • L05064, “Possible Impacts of Relatively Severe Climate Change,” Thomas Wilbanks
  • L05212, “Uncertainty Assessment and Reduction for Climate Extremes and Climate Change Impacts,” Auroop Ganguly
  • L05232, “Decadal Prediction of the Earth System after Major Volcanic Eruptions,” Kate Evans
  • L05241, “Prognostic Land-Use and Land-Cover Change for a Coupled Climate-Biogeochemistry Model,” Peter Thornton