The Department Of Energy plans to issue the 2009 SBIR/STTR Funding Opportunity Notice mid-September 2008.  The technical topics of interest are listed below.  (These are only the titles and are subject to change prior to release.)  Also, they are not necessarily in the order they will appear in the funding notice.  The solicitation and full topic descriptions will be available at http://www.science.doe.gov/sbir/.  Contact TREND if you need assistance with the SBIR program or have questions:  907-274-7232.

1. Accelerator Technologies for Present and Future Accelerator Facilities
2. Instrumentation for Electron Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
3. Instrumentation for Materials Research Using Synchrotron Radiation
4. Advanced Coal Research
5. Solid State Lighting
6. Advanced Materials and Technologies for Cooling and Waste Heat Recovery
7. Energy Efficient Membranes
8. Catalysis
9. Nanotechnology
10. Materials for Nuclear Energy Systems
11. Advanced Battery Development
12. Energy Savings Technologies for Commodity Manufacturing Industries
13. Increasing Efficiency in Traditional Lighting Technologies 
14. Production of Biofuels from Biomass
15. Advanced Water Power Technology Development
16. Wind Energy Technology Development
17. Geothermal Technologies
18. Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies
19. Solar Energy
20. Technologies Related to Energy Storage for Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
21. Climate Control Technology for Fossil Energy Applications
22. Oil and Gas Technologies
23. Coal Gasification Technologies
24. Use of Algae for Fuels Production
25. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology for Coal-Based Power Plants
26. Advanced Turbine Technology for IGCC Power Plants     
27. Sensors and Controls for Fossil Energy Power Generation Systems
28. High Performance Materials for Fossil Energy Power Generation Systems
29. High Energy Physics Data Acquisition and Processing
30. High Energy Physics Detectors
31. High-Field Superconductor and Superconducting Magnet Technologies for High Energy Particle Colliders
32. Accelerator Technology for the International Linear Collider
33. Advanced Concepts and Technology for High Energy Accelerators
34. Radio Frequency Accelerator Technology for High Energy Accelerators and Colliders
35. Medical Sciences
36. Genomes-to-Life (GTL) and Related Biotechnologies
37. Technologies for Subsurface Characterization and Monitoring
38. Carbon Cycle Measurements of the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
39. Atmospheric Measurement Technology
40. Enhancing Availability of Climate Model Output  
41. Nuclear Physics Accelerator Technology
42. Nuclear Physics Software and  Data Management
43. Nuclear Physics  Electronics Design and Fabrication
44. Nuclear Physics Instrumentation, Detection Systems and Techniques
45. Software Libraries and Applications Maintenance and Scaling to Petascale
46. Scientific Visualization and Data Understanding
47. High Performance Networks
48. Scalable System Software for Petascale Computer Systems
49. Advanced Technologies and Materials for Fusion Energy Systems Plasma Facing
50. Fusion Science and Technology
51. High Energy Density Physics for Inertial Fusion Energy
52. Remote Sensing
53. Alternative Radiological Sources
54. Simulation and Software Tools For Nonproliferation R&D
55. Seismic Signal Analysis
56. Advanced Technologies for Electricity Systems
57. Search, Discovery, and Communication of Scientific and Technical Knowledge in   Distributed  Systems
58. Improved Characterization of Waste in Tanks and Ancillary Piping
59. Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy