The purpose of this conference is to provide a technical briefing on the research projects supported by the Advanced Research Materials Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Summaries of the latest results will be provided from each of these projects, either by oral or poster presentations. The projects are grouped by purpose into sessions on: (1) Functional Materials, featuring materials for hydrogen-separation membranes; and advanced gas-separation materials; (2) New Alloys; (3) Coatings and Protection of Materials; and (4) Breakthroughs in Materials Performance and Reliability, featuring approaches for materials with temperature capabilities beyond current alloys; and materials for increased reliability in combustion/gasification environments. Session (2), New Alloys, will be presented as posters, grouped to show the support provided for alloys for ultra-supercritical steam applications; oxide dispersion-strengthened alloys; and corrosion testing in coal-fired environments. The conference is scheduled to begin at noon on June 2nd, and to be completed by lunchtime on June 4th, and is intended to provide opportunities to ask questions about the projects, and to meet and interact with the principal investigators from all of the projects, as well as the relevant program managers from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We invite representatives from industry to attend the conference to learn about recent progress in these topic areas, and we would welcome their comments on the directions and focus of the work presented, and its relevance to their needs.

sponsored by
U.S. Department of Energy
National Energy Technology Laboratory
UT-Battelle
Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Organizing Committee
Ian Wright, Rod Judkins, and Tim Armstrong, ORNL
Bob Romanosky and Kim Yavorsky, U.S. DOE
Conference Coordinator, LaRonda Mack, ORNL