Energy Frontier Research Centers

Advanced Materials research at ORNL is home to two Department of Energy-Office of Basic Energy Sciences' Energy Frontier Research Centers, the Fluid Interface Reaction, Structure, and Transport Center (FIRST), which focuses on understanding interfacial processes critical to electrical energy storage and catalysis, and the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE), which aims to develop a fundamental understanding of how the energy of radiation is dissipated, and ultimately to control defect dynamics and microstructural evolution in structural alloys.

The Energy Frontier Research Centers program aims to accelerate such transformative discovery, combining the talents and creativity of our national scientific workforce with a powerful new generation of tools for penetrating, understanding, and manipulating matter on the atomic and molecular scales.

Find out more about these two Centers at:

• Fluid Interface Reaction, Structure, and Transport Center