Innovations in materials science enable innumerable downstream innovations: steel enabled skyscrapers, and novel configurations of silicon enabled microelectronics. Yet progress in materials science has slowed in recent years. Fundamentally, this…
…maintain the existing global order. Indeed, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and CHIPS Act were largely reactionary moves to shore up atrophied manufacturing capabilities in the American battery and semiconductor…
…and interviews with staff and former staff of seven of DOE’s national Labs, as well as representatives from Lab operators, tech transfer recruitment agencies, members of the science academies and…
…bring back clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing despite the hundreds of billions invested by the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Cumulatively, this talent shortage could reduce…
…(IRA), and the CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS). These key laws provide funding and support to rebuild bridges, increase internet access, replace aging water systems, invest in clean energy technologies,…