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NSF Highlights Archives

The National Science Foundation periodically solicits science highlights from the Magnet Lab. These highlights, selected by MagLab Director Greg Boebinger, represent the most promising and cutting-edge research underway in the lab's seven user programs. Below is a list of our archived highlights. To see recent highlights, please visit the current NSF Highlights page.

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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 LaFeAsO_0.89F_0.11 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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