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：将于2008年9月8-9日在麻省理工学院举行的“药物发现”方法突破电池研讨会名称：Delgass， W. NicholasPI机构：普渡大学目标：在最近的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：“美国的基础研究人员研制出一种比新出现的标准磷酸铁锂离子电池好两倍的新电池的可能性有多大？”怎样做才能最大限度地提高实现这一目标的可能性？”本次研讨会将尝试回答第二个问题，参考国家科学基金会可以做些什么。作为讨论的一部分，它将询问如何充分利用制药行业中使用的方法来创造突破，在制药行业中，基于计算智能和量子力学建模的计算机模拟使得比传统方法更快、更便宜地搜索更大的可能性空间成为可能。提案的科学价值：寻找更好的药物已经证明，一个具有挑战性的实验平台如何以严肃的方式进行，在扩展基础学科和在学科之间建立新的桥梁方面具有很大的价值。本次研讨会的主席打算以先前的成功为基础，在这里创造一个新的科学成功故事。来自国家科学基金会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。在电池领域取得如此重大的突破将具有高度的变革性。提案的广泛影响：目前决定资助本次研讨会主要是基于其更广泛的影响。对汽油的依赖和价格问题已经成为一个生死攸关的问题，除非插电式混合动力汽车和电动汽车渗透到世界汽车总量的一半，否则预计对我们所有人的威胁将越来越严重。由于美国制造商无法获得质量足够好、价格足够便宜的电池，这种渗透速度——尤其是在美国汽车生产领域——正被大大推迟。希望这次研讨会将使研究界能够为满足这一国家需要和重大挑战作出最大贡献。

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.