FY 1995 DMS Research supported through the laboratory program.

Beside being of sound scientific merit and falling within the Division of Materials Sciences purview, a program to be carried out at a national laboratory must minimally satisfy at least one of the following criteria: This is complemented by the criteria applied for the grant program. The brief descriptions of supported projects taken from the Division of Materials Sciences program summary book appear below.


 AMES LABORATORY
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

1. CONTROLLED MICROSTRUCTURES
2. SOLIDIFICATION MICROSTRUCTURES
3. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
4. MARTENSITIC PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
5. PHOTONIC BAND GAP MATERIALS
6. RARE EARTH AND RELATED MATERIALS
7. ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
8. NDE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
9. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE
10. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROCESSING OF BULK HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS
11. NEUTRON SCATTERING
12. NEW MATERIALS AND PHASES
13. MAGNETO OPTIC MATERIAL
14. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
15. X-RAY DIFFRACTION PHYSICS
16. OPTICAL, SPECTROSCOPIC, AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS
17. SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS
18. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY THEORY
19. OPTICAL AND SURFACE PHYSICS THEORY
20. ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
21. SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL STRUCTURE
22. POLYMER AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
23. HIGH TEMPERATURE AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY
24. MUCAT SECTOR AT THE ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE

  ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439

25. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY CENTER FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH
26. INTERFACES IN ADVANCED CERAMICS
27. IRRADIATION AND KINETIC EFFECTS
28. CERAMIC MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
29. NEUTRON AND X-RAY SCATTERING
30. MAGNETIC FILMS
31. TAILORED PERMANENT MAGNETS
32. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM
32A. CONDENSED MATTER THEORY
33. SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SCATTERING
34. ADVANCED MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
35. CERAMIC EPITAXY FILMS AND COMPOSITES
36. EMERGING MATERIALS
37. CHEMICAL AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
38. INTERFACIAL MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
39. AQUEOUS CORROSION
40. DYNAMICS, ENERGETICS AND STRUCTURE OR ORDERED AND METASTABLE MATERIALS
41. PARTICLE AND PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH SURFACES
42. MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION FOR SURFACE ANALYSIS
43. APS USER TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
44. APS ACCELERATOR R&D;
45. INTENSE PULSED NEUTRON SOURCE PROGRAM
46. APS COMMISSIONING AND START-UP
47. ASD R&D; IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS
48. APS BEAMLINE AND INSERTION DEVICE R&D;
49. XFD R&D; IN SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS

  BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
Upton, NY 11973

50. SUBMICROSCOPIC DEFECTS IN LAYERED MATERIALS
51. FIRST PRINCIPLES THEORY OF HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURE PHASES
52. MECHANISMS OF METAL-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
53. SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS
54. BASIC MATERIALS SCIENCE OF HIGH TC CONDUCTOR FABRICATION
55. MAGNETIC AND STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS
56. ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS AND NEW TECHNIQUES
57. STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS USING POWDER DIFFRACTION TECHNIQUES
58. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH - X-RAY SCATTERING
59. LOW ENERGY PARTICLE INVESTIGATIONS OF SOLIDS
60. THEORETICAL RESEARCH
61. SURFACE PHYSICS RESEARCH
62. STRUCTURE-SENSITIVE PROPERTIES OF ADVANCED PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIALS: EXPERIMENT AND THEORY
63. NEUTRON SCATTERING - SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE
64. SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURES OF NEW CONDUCTING POLYMERS

IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Idaho Falls, ID 83415

65. STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN GRADED MICROSTRUCTURES
66. ROLE OF IMPURITIES IN MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED MATERIAL

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FREDERICK SEITZ MRL
104 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

67. TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN LOCALIZED CORROSION
68. DEFECTS, DIFFUSION, AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM PROCESSING OF MATERIALS 69. DEVELOPMENT OF X-RAY SYNCHROTRON INSTRUMENTS
70. MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY OF THE SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACE
71. CENTER FOR MICROANALYSIS OF MATERIALS
72. MICROANALYSIS OF DEFECTS AND INTERFACES
73. ATOMISTICS OF GROWTH AND TRANSPORT AT METAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES
74. ATOMIC RESOLUTION ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF CORROSION AND DEPOSITION PROCESSES
75. TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF SURFACES AND INTERFACES
76. CRYSTAL GROWTH AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF METASTABLE SEMICONDUCTING, CERAMIC AND METALLIC ALLOYS
77. STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF SMALL METAL CLUSTERS
78. SURFACE AND INTERFACE X-RAY DIFFRACTION
79. TIME RESOLVED, NONLINEAR, AND NOVEL OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF MATERIALS
80. ORGANIZATION OF THE SINGLE-CRYSTAL SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACE: ENERGIES, STRUCTURES AND ELECTRONIC SYNERGISM
81. MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION, INTERFACES AND PROPERTIES IN STRUCTURAL CERAMIC COMPOSITES
82. SOLUTE EFFECTS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRAIN BOUNDARIES
83. COUNCIL ON MATERIALS SCIENCE
84. CHEMISTRY OF NEW TRANSITION METAL CERAMIC COMPOUNDS SYNTHESIZED BY MOCVD
85. HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CERAMICS
86. MICROSTRUCTURE BASED CONTINUUM MODELING OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
87. SUBCRITICAL CRACK GROWTH IN STRUCTURAL CERAMICS
88. STRUCTURE AND KINETICS OF ORDERING TRANSFORMATIONS IN METAL ALLOYS AND SILICIDE THIN FILMS
89. MATERIALS CHEMISTRY OF OXIDES CERAMICS; FIELD RESPONSIVE ORGANIC INCLUSION COMPLEXES
90. SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF ELECTRICAL CERAMICS
91. ATOMIC SCALE MECHANISMS OF VAPOR PHASE CRYSTAL GROWTH
92. MAGNETIC BEHAVIOR OF NANOPHASE MATERIALS
93. PROCESSING OF MONODISPERSE CERAMIC POWDERS
94. MICROSCOPIC PROCESSES IN IRRADIATED CRYSTALS
95. RADIATION EFFECTS IN METALS AND SEMICONDUCTORS
96. MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
97. ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES AND INTERFACES
98. GROWTH AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL MBE MATERIALS
99. THEORY OF SOLIDS, SURFACES AND HETEROSTRUCTURES
100. SEMICONDUCTOR/INSULATOR STRUCTURES
101. DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NEW ORGANOMETALLIC MATERIALS
102. MICROSCOPIC THEORIES OF THE STRUCTURE AND PHASE TRANSITIONS OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS
103. PROPERTIES OF CRYSTALLINE AND LIQUID CONDENSED GASES
104. NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN SOLIDS
105. ELECTRO-ACTIVE AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL POLYMERS
106. METALLOPORPHYRINS AS FIELD RESPONSIVE MATERIALS
107. CARRIER TRANSPORT IN QUANTUM WELLS - PICOSECOND IMAGING
108. HIGH PRESSURE STUDIES OF MOLECULAR AND ELECTRONIC PHENOMENA
109. MECHANISTIC AND SYNTHETIC STUDIES IN CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION
110. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SURFACE PROCESSES IN THIN FILM DEPOSITION

  LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720

111. NATIONAL CENTER FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
112. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF MICROSTRUCTURES
113. ALLOY PHASE STABILITY
114. STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF TRANSFORMATION INTERFACES
115. THIN FILM STRUCTURES AND COATINGS
116. CAM HIGH PERFORMANCE METALS PROGRAM
117. CAM CERAMIC SCIENCE PROGRAM
118. CAM ELECTRONIC MATERIALS PROGRAM
119. QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES
120. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES, AND 1/F NOISE
121. SURFACE, INTERFACE, AND NANOSTRUCTURE STUDIES USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER PROBES
122. ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN NANOSTRUCTURES
123. TERAHERTZ AND FAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND SUPERCONDUCTORS
124. FAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
125. UNENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF MATERIALS AND SURFACES
126. STUDIES OF THE METAL/SOLUTION INTERFACE WITH X-RAYS
127. FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS IN CONDENSED MATTER
128. EXPERIMENTAL SOLID-STATE PHYSICS AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
129. SURFACE INSTRUMENTATION
130. TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIES IN SOLIDS
131. QUANTUM THEORY OF MATERIALS
132. CENTER FOR X-RAY OPTICS
133. CAM HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY PROGRAM
134. LOW-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
135. CAM BIOMOLECULAR MATERIALS PROGRAM
136. CAM POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES PROGRAM
137. "NEW INITIATIVE" ATOMIC LEVEL STUDIES OF TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACES AND LUBRICANTS
138. SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS USING NANOCRYSTAL PRECURSORS
139. NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
140. BURIED INTERFACES
141. CAM SURFACE SCIENCE AND CATALYSIS PROGRAM
142. SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL SOLIDS
143. SURFACE THEORY
144. STIMULATED DESORPTION OF HALOGENS
145. 1-2 GEV SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE R&D;

  LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
P. O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550

146. EFFECT OF IMPURITIES, FLAWS AND INCLUSIONS ON ADHESION AND BONDING AT INTERNAL INTERFACES
147. ROLES OF INTERFACES AND INTERPHASES ON SUPERPLASTICITY IN CERAMICS
148. SCIENCE OF THIN FILMS AND CLUSTERS
149. OPTICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH
150. INVESTIGATION OF NANOSCALE MAGNETICS
151. GROWTH AND FORMATION OF ADVANCED HETEROINTERFACES

LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545

152. UNIFIED THEORY OF EVOLVING MICROSTRUCTURES
153. PROCESSED DIAMOND AND DIAMOND-LIKE COATED MATERIALS
154. STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: INTERFACIAL EFFECTS AND VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR
155. METASTABLE PHASES AND MICROSTRUCTURES
156. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
157. CONDENSED MATTER RESEARCH WITH THE LANSCE FACILITY
158. INTEGRATED MODELING OF NOVEL MATERIALS
159. PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF TRANSURANICS UTILIZING A TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLET LABORATORY LIGHT SOURCE
160. HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND CORRELATED ELECTRON MATERIALS
161. THERMAL PHYSICS
162. LOW-DIMENSIONAL MIXED-VALENCE SOLIDS

NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401

163. GROWTH AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL ORDERED II-VI AND III-V SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS
164. SEMICONDUCTOR THEORY

OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
Oak Ridge, TN 37831

165. SHARED RESEARCH EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6117

166. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS
167. THEORETICAL STUDIES OF METALS AND ALLOYS
168. ATOMISTIC MECHANISMS IN INTERFACE SCIENCE-DIRECT IMAGING AND THEORETICAL MODELING
169. RADIATION EFFECTS
170. MICROSTRUCTURAL DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL CERAMICS
171. FUNDAMENTALS OF WELDING AND JOINING
172. HIGH TEMPERATURE ALLOY DESIGN
173. STRUCTURES OF ANISOTROPIC COLLOIDAL MATERIALS
174. INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS IN CONDENSED SYSTEMS
175. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ENERGY-RELATED MATERIALS
176. PROPERTIES OF ADVANCED CERAMICS
177. MATERIALS FOR HIGH-POWER RECHARGEABLE SOLID STATE LITHIUM BATTERIES
178. SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL MATERIALS
179. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCONDUCTORS
180. X-RAY RESEARCH USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
181. SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS, THIN FILMS, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS
182. BULK SHIELDING REACTOR SHUTDOWN
183. SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING
184. THEORY OF CONDENSED MATTER
185. STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS - X-RAY DIFFRACTION
186. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF MATERIALS
187. INVESTIGATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTORS WITH HIGH CRITICAL TEMPERATURES
188. SURFACE MODIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION FACILITY AND RESEARCH CENTER
189. ION BEAM ANALYSIS AND ION IMPLANTATION
190. SURFACE PHYSICS
191. CHEMISTRY OF ADVANCED INORGANIC MATERIALS
192. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ADVANCED POLYMERIC MATERIALS
193. NUCLEATION, GROWTH, AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN HOMOGENEOUS PRECIPITATION
194. THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF ENERGY-RELATED MATERIALS
195. BLENDS OF MACROMOLECULES WITH NANOPHASE SEPARATION

PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORY
P. O.Box 999, Richland, WA 99352

196. MICROSTRUCTURAL MODIFICATION IN CERAMIC PROCESSING USING INORGANIC POLYMER DISPERSANTS
197. INTERFACIAL DYNAMICS DURING HETEROGENEOUS DEFORMATION
198. FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF STRESS CORROSION AND CORROSION FATIGUE MECHANISMS
199. CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CERAMIC SURFACES
200. IRRADIATION-ASSISTED STRESS CORROSION CRACKING
201. IRRADIATION EFFECTS IN CERAMICS
202. THIN FILM OPTICAL MATERIALS
203. CERAMIC COMPOSITE SYNTHESIS UTILIZING BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

  SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES-ALBUQUERQUE
P. 0. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185

204. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CERAMICS
205. ATOMIC LEVEL SCIENCE OF INTERFACIAL ADHESION
206. WETTING AND FLOW OF LIQUID METALS AND AMORPHOUS CERAMICS AT SOLID INTERFACES
207. ENERGETIC-PARTICLE SYNTHESIS AND SCIENCE OF MATERIALS
208. ADVANCED GROWTH TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES
209. ARTIFICIALLY STRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTORS
210. TAILORED SURFACES AND INTERFACES FOR MATERIALS APPLICATIONS
211. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF NOVEL SUPERCONDUCTORS
212. BORON-RICH SOLIDS
213. CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION SCIENCES
214. SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING OF NANOCLUSTERS FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

  SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES-CALIFORNIA
P.0. Box 969, Livermore, CA 94551-0969

215. SURFACE, INTERFACE, AND BULK PROPERTIES OF ADVANCED CERAMICS
216. DEFECTS AND IMPURITIES IN SOLIDS/COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE/VISITING SCIENTIST PROGRAM
217. ALLOY THEORY
218. MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRAFAST OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

STANFORD SYNCHROTRON RADIATION LABORATORY

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309-0210

219. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITIES