NSF Highlights

The National Science Foundation periodically solicits science highlights from the Magnet Lab.These highlights, selected by Mag Lab Director Greg Boebinger, represent the most promising and cutting-edge research underway in the lab's seven user programs. For a list of Research Summaries please look here.

2011 NSF Science and Engeineering Highlights Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact Aug 26 Education Status and Highlights of Educational Programming FSU / CIRL Pat Dixon Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Phase transitions in Dual-Gated Bilayer Graphene FSU / DC Field Scott Hannahs Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Coexisting Superconductivity and Magnetism in UCoGe FSU / DC Field Jim Brooks or Eric Palm (User Program Director) Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Decoherence in Crystals of Molecular Magnets FSU / EMR Chris Beedle or Steve Hill (User Program Director) Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics An Electrically Readable Spin Memory FSU / EMR Hans van Tol or Steve Hill (User Program Director) Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Effect of Disorder on Fractional Quantum Hall State UF / High BT Neil Sullivan (User Program Director) Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Record 97.4 T non-destructive magnetic field LANL / PFF Chuck Mielke or Jon Betts (User Program Director Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Graphene beyond 100 tesla LANL / PFF Chuck Mielke or Jon Betts (User Program Director Aug 26 Condensed Matter Physics Two-dimensional Dirac fermions in a topological Insulator LANL / PFF Jon Betts (User Program Director) Aug 26 Biochemistry Sorting out Mixtures with 2D NMR UF / AMRIS Art Edison or Joanna Long (User Program Director) Aug 26 Biochemistry MR Microscopy at the Cellular Level UF / AMRIS Joanna Long (User Program Director) Aug 26 Biochemistry In Vivo Sodium MRI at 21.1T and Tumor Drug Resistance FSU / NMR Victor Schepkin or Tim Cross (User Program Director) Aug 26 Biochemistry Proton Transport by the Influenza M2 Protein FSU / NMR Mukesh Sharma Aug 26 Chemistry Relation of Protein Mutations to Disease FSU / ICR Alan Marshall or Amy McKenna (User Program Director) Aug 26 Chemistry Building the Best FT-ICR Mass Spectrometer FSU / ICR Chris Hendrickson or Amy McKenna (User Program Director) Aug 26 Materials Engineering 35.4 T Field Generated Using a Layer Wound Superconducting Coil Made of REBCO Coated Conductor FSU / ASC Ulf Trociewitz or Eric Hellstrom Aug 26 Materials Engineering High field performances in iron-based superconductors FSU / ASC Alex Gurevich or Eric Hellstrom Aug 26 Engineering & Education MS&T Education and Training: Undergraduate FSU / MS&T Mark Bird Aug 26 Magnet Science & Technology World Record 25T Resistive Split Magnet FSU / MS&T Jack Toth or Mark Bird Aug 26 Magnet Science & Technology Conductor Fabrication FSU / MS&T Mark Bird

 

 

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2010 NSF Science and Engeineering Highlights Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact Aug 30 Education Researching Educational Outreach Effectiveness FSU / CIRL Pat Dixon Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Overcoming Frustration in Magnetism FSU / DC Field Scott Hannahs Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Quantum Oscillations and Superconductivity FSU / DC Field Ross McDonald or Eric Palm (User Program Director) Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Toward Graphene Electronics FSU / DC Field Lloyd Engel or Eric Palm (User Program Director) Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Bismuth Qubits in Silicon FSU / EMR Gavin Morley or Steve Hill (User Program Director) Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Microscopic Dynamics in "Supersolid" Helium UF / High BT Jian-Shen Xia or Neil Sullivan (User Program Director) Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Modulation Calorimetry in Pulsed Magnetic Fields LANL / PFF Marcelo Jaime or Jon Betts (User Program Director Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Critical Fields and Currents in SmFeAs(O,F) Microdevices LANL / PFF Fedor Balakirev or Jon Betts (User Program Director) Aug 30 Condensed Matter Physics Cuprate Quantum Oscillations up to 85 Teslas LANL / PFF Chuck Mielke or Jon Betts (User Program Director) Aug 30 Biochemistry Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Mammalian Cells UF / AMRIS Steve Blackband or Joanna Long (User Program Director) Aug 30 Biochemistry Influence of Environments on Membrane Protein Structure FSU / NMR Tim Cross Aug 30 Chemistry Molecular Basis for Petroleum Distillation FSU / ICR Alan Marshall or Amy McKenna (User Program Director) Aug 30 Chemistry High-Field NMR Study of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell FSU / NMR Zhehong Gan or Tim Cross (User Program Director) Aug 30 Materials Engineering Progress on High Temperature Superconductors in Magnets FSU / ASC David Larbalestier Aug 30 Materials Engineering Do New Pnictide Superconductors Avoid the "Grain Boundary" Problem? FSU / ASC Alex Gurevich or Eric Hellstrom Aug 30 Magnet Science & Technology Design and Fabrication of a Split User Magnet FSU / MS&T Mark Bird Aug 30 Engineering & Education Magnet Technology Research for Undergraduates FSU / MS&T Mark Bird Aug 30 Magnet Science & Technology 32 Tesla All-Superconducting Magnet FSU / MS&T Denis Markiewicz Aug 30 Magnet Science & Technology Superconducting Cable (CICC) Technology FSU / MS&T Mark Bird

 

2009 NSF Science and Engineering Highlights Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact Aug. 28 Educational Outreach and Diversity Educational Outreach at the Magnet Lab FSU / CIRL Pat Dixon Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering Do Grain Boundaries in Pnictide Superconductors Transmit Supercurrent? FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center David Larbalestier Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Fermi Surface of α-Uranium at Ambient Pressure FSU / DC Field Stan Tozer or Eric Palm Aug. 28 Biochemistry, Biophysics Light Harvesting in Cyanobacteria* FSU / EMR R.D. Britt or Andrzej Ozarowski Aug. 28 Chemistry Chemistry of Petroleum Crude Oil Deposits: Sodium Naphthenates FSU / ICR Alan Marshall Aug. 28 Biochemistry Can a Truncated Domain Truly Represent a Whole Enzyme? FSU / ICR Alan Marshall Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering High Strength Composite Conductors FSU / MS&T Mark Bird or Ke Han Aug. 28 Magnets & Materials Engineering Breaking the 30 T Superconducting Magnet Barrier FSU / MS&T, ASC Denis Markiewicz or Ulf Trociewitz Aug. 28 Biochemistry Enhancing Resolution of HETCOR Spectra at 900 MHz FSU / NMR Riqiang Fu Aug. 28 Biochemistry, Bioengineering Dielectric Resonators for MR Microscopy at 21.1 T FSU / NMR Sam Grant Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Nearly Isotropic Superconductivity in (Ba,K)Fe2As2 LANL/Pulsed Field Facility Chuck Mielke Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in SrFe2As2 LANL/Pulsed Field Facility Chuck Mielke Aug. 28 Biochemistry Structure of Nanomole Quantities of Marine Chemicals UF / AMRIS Tadeusz Molinski or Art Edison Aug. 28 Condensed Matter Physics Quantum Dynamics in Solid Helium UF / High B/T Neil Sullivan

2008 NSF Science and Engineering Highlights Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact July 31 Biochemistry Mating and Dauer Pheromones from Caenorhabditis elegans UF / AMRIS Art Edison July 31 Chemical Engineering Nanoscale Diffusion Studies of Lipid Membranes UF / AMRIS Sergey Vasenkov July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Experimental Studies of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: High Field-Low Temperature Studies UF / High B/T Neil Sullivan July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Giant Viscosity Enhancement in a Spini-Polarized Fermi Liquid UF / High B/T Neil Sullivan July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Quenching Spin Decoherence in Diamond through Spin Bath Polarization FSU / EMR Hans van Tol July 31 Chemistry, Petroleomics High Performance Mass Spectrometry: FT-ICR at 14.5 T FSU / ICR Alan Marshall July 31 Biochemistry Diffusion and Sodium MRI of Rodent Glioma at 21T FSU / NMR Victor Schepkin July 31 Biochemistry Spectral Mapping of Protein Torsion Angles* FSU / NMR Tim Cross July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Two-Band Superconductivity in LaFeAsO0.89F0.11 at Very High Magnetic Fields FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center Frank Hunte July 31 Magnets & Materials, Engineering Steps Toward an All-Superconducting 30 Tesla Magnet Made from Round Wire FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center David Larbalestier July 31 Condensed Matter Physics HTc Superconductor MultiComponent Fermi Surface FSU / DC Field Suchitra Sebastian, Eric Palm July 31 Education Educational Outreach at the Magnet Lab FSU / Center for Integrating Research & Learning Pat Dixon July 31 Magnets & Materials Instrumentation for Measurement of Strain Dependence of Nb3Sn Conductors FSU / MS&T Denis Markiewicz July 31 Magnets & Materials Texture and Microstructure in High Strength Cu-Ag Conductors for DC Magnets FSU / MS&T Ke Han July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Fermi Surface of CeIn3 above the Neel Critical Field LANL / Pulsed Field Neil Harrison, Chuck Mielke July 31 Condensed Matter Physics Magneto Quantum Oscillations in YBa2Cu4O8 LANL / Pulsed Field Chuck Mielke

 

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