Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations New Science for a Secure and Sustainable Energy Future

Basic Energy Sciences The New Era Subcommittee George Crabtree, Marc Kastner, Michelle Buchanan, Thomas Mallouk, John Sarrao, Michael Klein, Arthur Nozik, Julia Phillips, Sue Clark, Frank DiSalvo, Don DePaolo, Simon Bare, Wayne Hendrickson, Wolfgang Eberhardt, Franz Himpsel, Michael Norman, Andrea Cavalleri, Carl Lineberger, Yet-Ming Chiang, Pat Looney Technical Support: Roger Klaffky, Michael Casassa, Jim Horwitz

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge 1.Science Summarize the BESAC and BRN reports on Energy and Grand Challenges for Science, identify the most important and crosscutting scientific themes and make the connections between the grand energy and grand science challenges. 2.Implementation Summarize the implementation strategies, and human resources that will be required to accomplish the science described in these reports. These strategies may include new experimental and theoretical facilities, instruments and techniques. Consider possible new organizational structures that may be required to implement the strategies and supply the human resources. 3.Light source science Identify future light source needs that will be required to help accomplish the scientific challenges described in these workshops. Specifically, consider the photon attributes needed to address future science grand challenges.

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences Present the case for basic research to solve grand energy and science challenges in accessible language The Objective

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences The Context: Energy Energy is undergoing a transition to greater sustainability Drivers Finite fossil resources Insecure access Pollution from combustion Greenhouse gas emission The drivers are pretty well appreciated by the audience

Basic Energy Sciences Traditional energy Combustion Heat engines Steam Internal combustion Turbines Transportation Electricity Space and water heating Materials: commodity fuels Cheap, high energy content Fossil, biomass Sustainable energy Conversion not combustion Solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, geothermal Electricity/Plug-in hybrids Bio fuels/transportation Geothermal/space and water heating Materials: complex, functional photovoltaics, catalysts, electrodes, membranes for batteries and fuel cells Greater sustainability changes the way we produce, store and use energy The Context: Energy

Basic Energy Sciences The Context: Energy Traditional combustion Sustainable conversion Clean coal CO 2 capture sequestration Nuclear waste proliferation High efficiency high temperature extreme environments

Basic Energy Sciences The Context: Energy and Materials Traditional energy materials Coal, oil, gas CH 0.8, CH 2, CH 4 Function: combustion Commodities Cheap, high energy content Materials for greater sustainability Solar cells, water splitting, bio- inspired solar synthesis, electrical storage, fuel cells, membranes and chemistry for CO 2 capture, extreme temperature, radiation, corrosivity Function: conversion among light, electrons, chemical bonds; separation, robustness Multi-functional materials complex structures and dynamics precise nanoscale architectures decades long lifetime

Basic Energy Sciences The Context: Science Science is undergoing a transition from observation to control 20 th Century Science Observational Tools Electron microscopy with atomic resolution Scanning probe microscopy Materials Discoveries High temperature superconductors Carbon nanotubes 21 st Century Science Directing Matter and Energy Chemical change Charge, spin, light interactions Materials Design Smart, self-healing materials Nanoscale fabrication Theory and computation: emulate structure and dynamics, lead synthesis

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences Greater energy sustainability requires designed functional materials of greater complexity These materials come from advances in basic research Specifically: New complex materials and precise control of chemical change Tools that penetrate the ultrasmall and ultrafast Understanding based on theory, modeling and computation The Messages

Basic Energy Sciences The intersection of the need for materials of greater complexity and the transition from observational to control science creates a tipping point for energy sustainability The Messages

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences Imagine a Secure Sustainable Energy Future Focuses on the vision of desirable outcomes Defers the question of technical barriers Presents science as a problem solver and source of future technological and economic growth The Vehicle

Basic Energy Sciences The Charge The Objective The Context The Message The Vehicle The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences Brief, high level, easy to read Target the decision to fund science Implementation details left to later discussion with BES The Recommendations

Basic Energy Sciences Questions and Discussion