| DOE National Laboratories Program Announcement- Basic Research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative |
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Publication Date:29-April-2006 11:00 AM US Eastern Timezone Source:FuelCellWorks |
SUMMARY: The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its mission to assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise through the support of fundamental science and the experimental tools to perform basic research, announces its interest in receiving proposals for basic research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI). Areas of focus include: Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage; Functional Membranes; and Nanoscale Catalysts. We seek to support outstanding research programs that will lead to key discoveries to make hydrogen a feasible fuel for the future. Research funded under this initiative will pursue breakthroughs in materials, chemical and physical understandings, and interdisciplinary theory-modeling-simulation-experimentation approaches in order to surpass the existing scientific and technical barriers. More information on these focus areas is provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. DATES: Potential researchers are REQUIRED to submit a brief preproposal through appropriate Laboratory channels. Preproposals referencing Program Announcement LAB 06-17 must be received by DOE by 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time, July 6, 2006. Preproposals will be reviewed for conformance with the guidelines presented in this notice and suitability in the technical areas specified in this notice. A response to the preproposals encouraging or discouraging formal proposals will be communicated to the applicants by September 12, 2006. Complete guidance on the content and format of the preproposal is provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Only those researchers that receive notification from DOE encouraging a formal proposal may submit a full proposal. No other formal proposals will be considered. Formal proposals in response to this notice must be received by December 12, 2006, 8:00p.m. Eastern Time. NUMBER OF PREPROPOSALS: each FFRDC may submit up to four preproposals as lead institution. The first four preproposals received from an FFRDC as lead institution will be considered to be that institution's official submission. BES reserves the right to encourage, in whole or in part, any, all, or none of the preproposals submitted, and may issue further guidance on the scope of the full proposal submissions of those encouraged. ADDRESSES: Preproposals referencing Program Announcement LAB 06-17 should be sent as PDF file attachments via e-mail to: hydrogen@science.doe.gov with Subject line specifying "Program Announcement LAB 06-17" and the primary submission category, i.e., "Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage," "Functional Membranes," or "Nanoscale Catalysts." No FAX or mail submission of preproposals will be accepted. Formal Proposals This section pertains only to those proposers that have been encouraged to submit a full proposal. A complete formal FWP in a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file must be submitted through the DOE ePMA system (https://epma.doe.gov) as an attachment. To identify that the FWP is responding to this program announcement, please fill in the following fields in the "ePMA Create Proposal Admin Information" screen as shown: Proposal Short Name: In order to expedite the review process,
please submit a CD and two copies of the proposal using the following, by
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