Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)

The EFRC Program is a basic research program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) that brings together creative, multidisciplinary, and multi-institutional team of scientific researchers to address the toughest grand scientific challenges at the forefront of fundamental energy science research.

These centers provide the foundation for collaborative efforts that targets both discovery science and use-inspired basic research, they aim to address priority research directions and opportunities identified by a series of BES workshop and roundtable reports. They take full advantage of powerful new tools for characterizing, understanding, modeling, and manipulating matter from atomic to macroscopic length scales. They also train the next-generation scientific workforce by attracting talented students and postdoctoral researchers interested in energy science.