Workshop on a "Drug Discovery" Approach to Breakthroughs in Batteries. To be Held September 8-9, 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

以“药物发现”方法实现电池突破的研讨会。

• 批准号: 0841532
• 负责人: W. Nicholas Delgass
• 金额: $ 4.09万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0841532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Drug; Discovery; Approach; Breakthroughs

AbstractProposal Number: ECS-0841532Proposal Title: Workshop on a "Drug Discovery" Approach to Breakthroughs in Batteries to be held at MIT on September 8-9, 2008PI Name: Delgass, W. NicholasPI Institution: Purdue University Objectives: At a recent IEEE workshop for Congressional staff on plug-in hybrid cars, the questions were posed: "What is the probability that basic researchers in the US could come up with a new battery twice as good for cars as the newly emerging standard, the iron phosphate lithium ion battery? What could be done to maximize the probability that this goal is actually achieved, as soon as possible?" This workshop will attempt to answer the second question, with reference to what NSF can do. As part of its discussions, it will ask what can be done to take full advantage of approaches to creating breakthroughs used in the pharmaceutical industry, where computer simulation based on computational intelligence and quantum mechanical modeling has made it possible to search a larger space of possibilities more quickly and more cheaply than conventional approaches. Scientific merit of proposal: The search for better pharmaceuticals has demonstrated how a challenging testbed pursued in a serious manner can be of great value in stretching the underlying disciplines, and in building new bridges between disciplines. The chairman of this workshop intends to build on that prior success, to create a new scientific success story here. Input from the NSF communities in Adaptive and Intelligent Systems, and in Quantum Modeling, will also enhance the chances of success. A breakthrough in batteries of this magnitude would be highly transformative. Broad impact of proposal: The decision to fund this workshop at the present time is mainly based on its broader impacts. The issue of gasoline dependency and prices has already become a matter of life and death, and is expected to become a worse and worse threat to us all until and unless plug-in hybrid cars and electric cars penetrate half the world automotive fleet. That rate of penetration -particularly in US car production -is being substantially delayed by lack of good enough, cheap enough batteries available to US manufacturers. It is hoped that this workshop will enable the research community to contribute the most that it can to meeting this national need and grand challenge.

建议编号：ECS-0841532建议标题：将于2008年9月8日至9日在麻省理工学院举行的电池突破的“药物发现”方法研讨会PI名称：Delgass，W.NicholasPI Institution：普渡大学目标：在最近一次IEEE国会工作人员关于插电式混合动力汽车的研讨会上，提出了以下问题：“美国基础研究人员提出一种新电池的概率是新出现的标准--磷酸铁锂离子电池的两倍？如何才能最大限度地最大限度地提高这一目标尽快实现的可能性？”本研讨会将试图回答第二个问题，即NSF能做些什么。作为讨论的一部分，它将询问如何才能充分利用制药行业中使用的方法来创造突破，在制药行业，基于计算智能和量子力学建模的计算机模拟使人们能够比传统方法更快、更便宜地搜索更大的可能性空间。建议的科学价值：对更好药物的探索表明，认真追求具有挑战性的试验台对于延伸基础学科和在学科之间建立新的桥梁具有重要价值。这个研讨会的主席打算在先前成功的基础上，在这里创造一个新的科学成功故事。来自NSF社区在自适应和智能系统以及量子建模方面的投入也将增加成功的机会。如此规模的电池领域的突破将具有极大的变革性。提案的广泛影响：目前决定资助这一讲习班主要是基于其更广泛的影响。汽油依赖和价格问题已经成为一个生死攸关的问题，预计将成为对我们所有人越来越严重的威胁，直到插电式混合动力汽车和电动汽车普及到全球一半的汽车车队。由于美国制造商缺乏足够好、足够便宜的电池，这一渗透率--尤其是在美国汽车生产领域--正被大幅推迟。希望这次研讨会将使研究界能够尽其所能地为满足这一国家需求和重大挑战作出贡献。