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</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-overviewblurb-1"> <article class="node node--type-landing-page node--view-mode-overview-blurb-with-background-color"> <div class="node__content"> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div > <div class="status-messages-container"> <div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="main-content no-sidebar" id="main-content"> <div class="main-content-wrapper"> <div class="content-section" > <div class="page-title" id="block-ornl-page-title"> <h1 class="page-title"><span>ORNL Office of Science Materials Sciences and Engineering Program</span> </h1> </div> <div id="block-ornl-content"> <article class="node node--type-landing-page node--view-mode-full"> <div class="node__content"> <div class="pfield-wrapper field-body"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" ><h2>Conducting world leading fundamental materials research to deliver underpinning knowledge for future energy technologies</h2><p>Delivering world-leading fundamental materials research to accelerate innovations in energy technologies is the goal of ORNL’s Materials Sciences and Engineering (MSE) Program. The ORNL MSE Program is one of the largest US Department of Energy (DOE)-Basic Energy Sciences (BES)-MSE portfolios, involving more than 100 scientific staff, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and research support staff. The MSE program’s trailblazing scientific research aligns well with ORNL’s priority research directions in advanced materials, high-performance computing, neutron scattering, and clean energy. ORNL’s MSE portfolio has specialized expertise to predict, synthesize, characterize, and ultimately control materials systems over broad scales of time and space. Quantum materials, structural materials, energy materials, and soft matter are the classes of materials MSE research focuses on to deliver fundamental science. In addition, ORNL’s MSE program develops approaches for predicting and characterizing the structure and behavior of materials, making extensive use of and contributions to DOE user facilities at ORNL, including SNS, HFIR, CNMS, and OLCF.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" > <section class="staff-profile-card node contact card node--type-staff-profile node--view-mode-staff-profile-card"> <div class="staff-profile-card-wrapper"> <div class="staff-profile-card-details-wrapper"> <div class="staff-profile-card-details"> <div class="staff-profile-card-header"> <h3 class="section-heading">Contact</h3> </div> <div class="staff-profile-card-details-name"> <a href="/staff-profile/cynthia-j-jenks" hreflang="en">Cynthia</a> <a href="/staff-profile/cynthia-j-jenks" hreflang="en">J </a> <a href="/staff-profile/cynthia-j-jenks" hreflang="en">Jenks</a> </div> <div class="staff-profile-card-details-title"> Associate Lab 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class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" ><p>Quantum Information Science</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="featured-card"> <div class="featured-card-image"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" > <article aria-label="materials-chemistry-img.png"> <div class="content-image content-image--undefined"> <div class="content-image__img"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_style/public/2020-06/materials-chemistry-img.png?h=8bfe726e&itok=Yi8i4UBW" width="1000" height="650" alt="Materials Chemistry for Energy Storage and Soft Matter" /> <div class="content-image__magnify"> <a href="/sites/default/files/2020-06/materials-chemistry-img.png"><span>View a hi-res version of this image</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="featured-card-text"> <div class="featured-card-heading"></div> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" ><p>Materials Chemistry for Energy Storage and Soft Matter</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="featured-card"> <div class="featured-card-image"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" > <article aria-label="structural-materials-img.png"> <div class="content-image content-image--undefined"> <div class="content-image__img"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_style/public/2020-06/structural-materials-img.png?h=8a56711f&itok=onfOkqSe" width="1000" height="650" alt="Structural Materials and Radiation Effects" /> <div class="content-image__magnify"> <a href="/sites/default/files/2020-06/structural-materials-img.png"><span>View a hi-res version of this image</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="featured-card-text"> <div class="featured-card-heading"></div> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" ><p>Physical Behavior of Materials</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph-container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multi-column-section paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="multi-column-wrapper"> <div class="multi-column-4"> <div class="featured-card"> <div class="featured-card-image"> <div class="field-wrapper"> <div class="field-container" > <div class="field-element" > <article aria-label="precision-sythesis-img.png"> <div class="content-image content-image--undefined"> <div class="content-image__img"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_style/public/2020-06/precision-sythesis-img.png?h=40f5e6bb&itok=fargPVF_" width="1000" height="650" alt="Precision Synthesis" /> <div class="content-image__magnify"> <a href="/sites/default/files/2020-06/precision-sythesis-img.png"><span>View a hi-res version of this image</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> 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