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unusual facts about US Department of Energy



Krell Institute

The organization was founded in 1997 in support of the US Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program (CSGF), and has since grown to include a number of other US government contracts towards its mission of serving the science, technology, and education communities.


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Inducement prize contest

L Prize is a US Department of Energy competition to increase efficiency of solid-state lighting.

Krell Institute

The Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) for PhD students, sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

Xanthoria parietina

It was chosen as a model organism for genomic sequencing (planned in 2006) by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI).

YXY Building Blocks

Furanics (e.g. 2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid, HMF, furfural) have been referred to as “Sleeping Giants” because of their enormous market potential, as evidenced by the research of DuPont and DSM in this area and its position in the US Department of Energy top 12 of high-potential biobased products.