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

摘要提案编号：ECS-0841532提案标题：2008年9月8日至9日在麻省理工学院举行的电池破裂的“药物发现”方法研讨会PI姓名：Delgass，W。NicholasPI机构：普渡大学目标：在IEEE最近为国会工作人员举办的关于插电式混合动力汽车的研讨会上，提出了这样一个问题：“美国的基础研究人员能够为汽车开发出比新出现的标准磷酸铁锂离子电池好两倍的新电池的概率有多大？如何尽可能增加这一目标尽快实现的可能性？“这个研讨会将试图回答第二个问题，关于NSF可以做什么。作为讨论的一部分，它将询问可以做些什么来充分利用制药行业中使用的创造突破的方法，其中基于计算智能和量子力学建模的计算机模拟使得可以比传统方法更快，更便宜地搜索更大的可能性空间。建议的科学价值：寻找更好的药物已经证明，以严肃的方式追求的具有挑战性的试验平台在扩展基础学科和在学科之间建立新的桥梁方面具有巨大的价值。这次研讨会的主席打算在先前的成功基础上，在这里创造一个新的科学成功故事。 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提高成功的机会。 这种规模的电池突破将具有高度的变革性。建议的广泛影响：目前决定资助该讲习班主要是基于其广泛的影响。汽油依赖和价格问题已经成为生死攸关的问题，预计将成为一个越来越严重的威胁，我们所有人，直到和除非插电式混合动力汽车和电动汽车渗透一半的世界汽车车队。由于美国制造商缺乏足够好、足够便宜的电池，这一渗透率--特别是在美国汽车生产中--被大大推迟了。希望这次研讨会将使研究界作出最大的贡献，它可以满足这个国家的需要和巨大的挑战。

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.