Materials for Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Power Systems
· High temperature corrosion resistant alloys for boilers
· Turbine Materials and Manufacturing
· Tubing & Piping Materials and Manufacturing
· Joining Materials and Processes
· Inspection and Characterization
· Standard development
· Etc.
Materials for Nuclear Energy and New Energy
· Water-Cooled reactor materials
· Materials under extreme irradiation and/or corrosive environments associated with current and future nuclear power reactors
· Materials for integral fast reactor, molten salt-cooled and high-temperature gas- cooled reactor
· Nuclear materials and fuels including accident tolerant fuels
· Nuclear waste management
· Etc.
Materials for Gas Turbines
· High-temperature alloys
· Nickel-based superalloys
· Titanium aluminides and other intermetallics
· Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs)
· Effects of alternative fuels on turbine engine materials
· Etc.
Materials and Production Technologies for Oil, Gas
· Pipeline steels, pressure vessel steels – alloy development
and/or thermomechanical processing
· Pipeline steels, pressure vessel steels- welding and joining technologies· Environmental evaluation of pipe and pressure vessel systems
· Nickel-base alloys in oil and gas production
· Materials for drilling tools and applications
· Offshore materials issues
Materials for Energy Storage and Power Batteries
· Vanadium redox
flow batteries
· Niobium-based high performance batteries
· Lithium-Ion Batteries
· Sodium-Ion Batteries
· Capacitors/Super Capacitors
· Fuel Cell
· Etc.
Materials for Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell
· Hydrogen production (AE, PEM, SOEC etc.)
· Hydrogen storage and transportation (carbon fiber, solid hydrogen storage metals etc.)
· Fuel cell (PEMFC, SOFC etc.)
· Hydrogen energy application (transport, refining, industry, electricity generation, buildings etc.)
· Etc.
Structural and Functional Material for Renewable Energy
· Materials for wind tower and fan blade
· Steels for hydroelectric power and pumped storage station
· Materials for photovoltaic support bracket and photovoltaic panel
· Steels for battery pack
· Steel for hydrogen manufacturing and storage