Research Programs

Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering

The Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering (DMSE) supports research programs at national laboratories, universities, and other research institutions.  Listed below are the programmatic Core Research Activity (CRA) descriptions (viewed by following its respective link):

• Ultrafast Sciences and Instrumentation [Description]

• X-ray  Scattering [Description]

• Neutron Scattering [Description]

• Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopies [Description]

• EPSCoR [Description]

• Experimental Condensed Matter Physics [Description]

• Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics [Description]

• Materials Chemistry [Description]

• Biomolecular Materials [Description]

• Mechanical Behavior and Radiation Effects [Description]

• Physical Behavior of Materials [Description]

• Synthesis and Processing Science [Description]

The Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering (DMSE) within the Office of Basic Energy Sciences has entered the summaries of its supported university research grants into an  Abstract Tracking System (ATS).  Abstracts can be viewed and searched by key words at the ATS database website. Summaries for DOE laboratory Field Work Proposals are not contained in the Abstract Tracking Service and can be viewed by selecting the project program summaries of research at each of the supported national laboratories (click on the PDF icons below):

•      Ames Laboratory

•      Argonne National Laboratory

•      Brookhaven National Laboratory

•      Idaho National Laboratory

•      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

•      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

•      Los Alamos National Laboratory

•      National Renewable Energy Laboratory

•      Oak Ridge National Laboratory

•      Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

•      Sandia National Laboratories 

•      Savanna River National Laboratory

•      Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

The entire portfolio of the former Division of Materials Sciences and its predecessors from 1955 through 1997 can be accessed through the archived program summary books.