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2008 Science & 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
July 23	Condensed Matter Physics	A Direct Measurement of the Bose-Einstein Condensation Universality Class in NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂ at Ultra-Low Temperatures	UF / High B/T Facility	Vivien Zapf or Neil Sullivan
July 17	Condensed Matter Physics	Experimental Studies of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: High field-Low Temperature Studies	UF / High B/T Facility	Neil Sullivan
April 30	Chemistry	A Family of Cyanide-Bridged Molecular Squares: Structural and Magnetic Properties of [{M^IICl₂}₂{Co^II(triphos)(CN)₂}₂] ·xCH₂Cl₂, M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn	EMR and DC Field	Jurek Krzystek
March 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Cyclotron Resonance in Bilayer Graphene	DC Field	Zhigang Jiang
March 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Supersymmetry Can Be Realized and Detected in Cold Atoms with Mixtures of Bosons and Fermions	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Kun Yang
March 7	Condensed Matter Physics	Colossal Magnetocapacitance and Scale-invariant Dielectric Response in Phase-separated Manganites	UF Physics	Amlan Biswas
March 3	Condensed Matter Physics	Smectic Vortex Phase in Optimally Doped YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Thin Films	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Baily

2007 Science & Engineering Highlights
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Dec. 12	Biochemistry	Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Protein Sequencing from the N- and C-Termini	FSU / ICR Facility	Alan Marshall
Dec. 11	Biochemistry	Novel Lipid Profiling of Glioblastoma Brain Tumor Cells Following Gene and Chemotherapy Treatment	FSU / ICR Facility	Alan Marshall or Tanner Schaub
Nov. 29	Condensed Matter Physics	Nanostructure and Velocity of Field-driven Solid-on-solid Interfaces Moving Under a Phonon-assisted Dynamic	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Per Arne Rikvold
Nov. 29	Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Hall States near the Charge-Neutral Dirac Point in Graphene	FSU / DC Field Facility	Zhigang Jiang
Nov. 15	NMR, Biochemistry	Covariance NMR Metabolomics Web Portal	FSU / NMR & UF / AMRIS	Fengli Zhang
Nov. 1	Condensed Matter Physics	Orbital Ordering Transition in Sr₂VO₄	FSU / DC Field	Chris Wiebe or H.D. Zhou
Oct. 30	Condensed Matter Physics	Disorder-Induced Static Antiferromagnetism in Cuprate Superconductors	UF / Physics	Peter Hirschfeld
Oct. 19	Biochemistry	Mapping EPR Spin Label Conformations by the Simulated Scaling Method	FSU / EMR Facility	Peter Fajer
Oct. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Wigner Crystal in p-SiGe/Si Heterostructure	FSU / DC Field	Irina Drichko or Alexey Suslov
Oct. 11	Chemistry	A Definitive Determination of Zero-Field Splitting and Exchange Interactions in a Ni(II) Dimer: Investigation of [Ni₂(en)₄Cl₂]Cl₂ Using Magnetization and Tunable-Frequency High-Field EPR	FSU / EMR Facility	Jurek Krzystek
Oct. 2	Condensed Matter Physics	Correlation between T_c and Anisotropic Scattering in a High Temperature Superconductor	FSU / DC Field	Nigel Hussey or Luis Balicas
Sept. 25	Quantum Mechanics & Materials	New Room Temperature Solid-State Qubits for Future Quantum Computers	FSU / EMR Facility	Saritha Nellutla
Sept. 20	Condensed Matter Physics	Geometric Frustration and Dimensional Reduction at a Quantum Critical Point	LANL / Pulsed Field	Pinaki Sengupta
Sept. 18	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin Correlations Can Now Be Measured Using Magnetostriction	LANL / Pulsed Field	Vivien Zapf
Sept. 14	Condensed Matter Physics	Fermi Surface of CeIn₃ above the Néel Critical Field	LANL / Pulsed Field	Neil Harrison
Sept. 14	Magnets & Materials Engineering	New World Record for Superconducting Coil Performance	FSU / MS&T	Denis Markiewicz
Sept. 13	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Resistive Magnet Developments: Split Florida-Helix & Magnet for Neutron Scattering (3 slides)	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird
Sept. 12	Magnets & Materials Engineering	90 T Insert Magnet Performance (5 slides)	LANL / Pulsed Field	Chuck Swenson
Sept. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	High-Field Hall Resistivity and Magnetoresistance of Electron-Doped Pr_2-xCe_xCuO_4-δ	LANL / Pulsed Field	Fedor Balakirev
Sept. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Direct Transition from a Disordered to a Multiferroic Phase on a Triangular Lattice	LANL / Pulsed Field	Marcelo Jaime
Sept. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Correlated Enhancement of Hc₂ and Jc in Carbon Nanotube Doped MgB₂	LANL / Pulsed Field	Marcelo Jaime
Sept. 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Giant Viscosity Enhancement in a Spin-Polarized Fermi Liquid	UF / High B/T	Neil Sullivan
Sept. 10	Magnets and Materials Engineering	Highly Textured and Twinned Cu Films Fabricated by Pulsed Electrodeposition	FSU / MS&T	Baozhi Cui and Ke Han
Sept. 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Field-induced Supersolid Phase in Spin-One Heisenberg Models	LANL / Pulsed Field	Pinaki Sengupta
Sept. 10	Chemistry & NMR	Direct Observation of Atoms Entering and Exiting a Dipeptide Nanotube System: A Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 2D Exchange Study (2 slides)	UF / Chemistry	Russ Bowers
Sept. 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Far-From-Equilibrium Behavior of Electrons in Si Transistors	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Dragana Popović
Sept. 6	Chemistry & NMR	Membrane Proteins Marching in Order	FSU / NMR	Tim Cross
Sept. 6	Biophysics & NMR	Drugs Contort their Targets	FSU / NMR	Tim Cross
Sept. 6	Biochemistry	Parectadial: A Monoterpene Produced by a Madagascar Walkingstick Insect	UF / AMRIS	Art Edison
Sept. 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Colossal Magnetoresistance in Magnetically Doped Quantum Wells	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Jan Jaroszyński
August 22	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Characterization of Nb₃Sn Superconductors for Hybrid Magnets	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
August 20	Condensed Matter Physics	Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth	FSU / DC Field	Kamran Behnia or Luis Balicas
August 20	Magnets & Materials Engineering	I_C Axial Strain Dependence of High Current Density Nb₃Sn Conductors	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
August 16	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Construction of the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet (4 slides)	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird
August 14	Education	Magnet Lab Education Programs: Making an Impact in STEM Education	FSU / CIRL	Pat Dixon
August 6	Condensed Matter NMR	Disorder and Double-exchange Spin Dynamics in La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ and La_0.7Sr_0.3CoO₃ from NMR Hyperfine Couplings	FSU / NMR Facility	Michael Hoch
July 30	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin Dynamics of the Spin-½ Kagomé Lattice Antiferromagnet ZnCu₃(OH)₆Cl₂	FSU / DC Field	Young Lee or Joel Helton
July 26	Condensed Matter Physics	The Origin of Persistent Spin Dynamics and Residual Entropy in the Stuffed Spin Ice Ho_2.3Ti_1.7O_7-δ	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Haidong Zhou
July 17	Condensed Matter Physics	Low Temperature Vortex Liquid in La_2-xSr_xCuO₄	FSU / DC Field	N.P. Ong or Lu Li
June 29	Chemistry	Molecular Structure from Molecular Mass	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall
June 26	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Low Temperature Physical Properties of a Ni-Mo-Cr alloy Haynes® 242™	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
June 26	Cryogenics Engineering	Gravitational Capillary Viscometer for Low-Temperature Liquids Site	FSU / MS&T	David Hilton or Steve Van Sciver
June 25	Chemistry	Which Components of Crude Oil Dissolve in Water?	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall
June 22	Physics & NMR	Antiferromagnetic correlations and impurity broadening of NMR linewidths in cuprate superconductors	UF / Physics	Peter Hirschfeld
June 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Landau Level Spectroscopy of Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Zhigang Jiang or Horst Stormer
May 21	Chemistry	Multifrequency EPR Studies on the Mn(II) Centers of Oxalate Decarboxylase	FSU & UF / EMR	Alex Angerhofer
May 17	Biology	A Quantitative Study of Bioenergetics in Skeletal Muscle Lacking Carbonic Anhydrase III Using 31P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	UF / AMRIS	Krista Vandenborne or Min Liu
May 17	Engineering & Biochemistry	New Radio Frequency Coils Help Proteins Stay Cool in High Magnetic Fields	FSU / NMR	Peter Gor'kov or Bill Brey
May 14	Magnets & Materials	Limits to the Critical Current in Bi₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x Tape Conductors: The parallel path model	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 14	Condensed Matter Physics	Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Zhigang Jiang or Greg Boebinger
May 14	Magnets & Materials	Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Thermal Stability in High Temperature Superconducting Tapes	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Statistical Analysis of the Electromechanical Behavior of AgMg Sheathed Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_{8+ x} Superconducting Tapes Using Weibull Distributions	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz or Abdallah Mbaruku
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Behavior of Bulk High-temperature Superconductors of Finite Thickness Subjected to Crossed Magnetic Fields : Experiment & Model	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Near-adiabatic Quench Experiments on YBa₂Cu₃O_{7- δ} Coated Conductors	FSU / ASC	Xiaorong Wang or Justin Schwartz
May 1	Condensed Matter Physics	Antiferromagnetism & Hidden-order State in URu₂Si₂	FSU / DC Field	Luis Balicas or Y.J. Jo
April 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetically Induced Field-Effect in Carbon Nanotube Devices	FSU / DC Field	Dmitry Smirnov
April 9	Condensed Matter Physics	High Field Suppression of In-Gap States in Kondo Insulator SmB₆	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes
April 9	Condensed Matter Physics	Limits of Superconductivity in Bi-2212	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes or Bill Halperin
March 26	Condensed Matter Physics	First Experiments in the 100T Multi-Shot Magnet: Tuning Alloy Disorder in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
March 26	Condensed Matter Physics	First Direct Observation of Two-Magnon Bound States in Spin-1 Anisotropic Chains in High Magnetic Fields	FSU / DC Field	Jurek Krzystek or Sergei Zvyagin
March 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Finding Missing Entropy with Neutrons in the "Hidden Order" State of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor URu₂Si₂	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Chris Wiebe
March 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Orbital-Dependent Metamagnetic Response in Sr₄Ru₃O₁₀	FSU / DC Field	Luis Balicas
March 19	Condensed Matter Physics	A Novel Ligand for Potential Nanomagnets	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek
March 15	Chemistry & Physics	High-Field EPR Determines the Bond Order in a Palladium (Pd₂)5+ Complex	FSU / EMR	Saritha Nellutla
March 13	Condensed Matter Physics	Electrical Detection of Spin Transport in Semiconductors	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
Feb. 28	Chemistry	Single-Molecule Magnet Fe₈ Improves Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast	FSU / NMR	Naresh Dalal
Feb. 28	Chemistry & Engineering	Unexpected Resolution and Sensitivity Enhancement at High Field (900 MHz) Solid State NMR	FSU / NMR	Riqiang Fu
Feb. 27	Chemistry	Proteomics of Malignant Cells	FSU / ICR	Mark Emmett
Feb. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	Extending Superconducting Magnet Technology with High Temperature Superconductors and MgB₂	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes

2006 Science Highlights
Project Area	Title	Institution	Contact
Condensed Matter Physics	Linear-T Scattering in a High-Tc Superconductor	Mag Lab / FSU	Luis Balicas
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Nanomaterials for Live Cell Tracking	Mag Lab / FSU, UF	Sam Grant
Condensed Matter Physics	Sixty Tesla Magnetic Fields Probe the Nanoscale	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Scott Crooker
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	High T_c Probe Enables Natural Products NMR	Mag Lab / FSU, UF	Art Edison
Materials Research	Applied Superconductivity Center at the Magnet Lab Links Research and Commercial Applications	Mag Lab / FSU	David Larbalestier
Condensed Matter Physics	Opening a New Window on Newly-Developed Metals, Enabled by a Novel World-Record Electromagnet	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Alex Lacerda
Condensed Matter Physics	Fermi Surface Studies across a Néel Phase Boundary	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Neil Harrison
Condensed Matter Physics	Han Purple Pigment Loses a Dimension	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Neil Harrison
Condensed Matter Physics	Unprecedented Flexibility for Fermi-surface Studies	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	John Singleton
Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Hall Effect on Graphene at 45 T	Mag Lab / FSU	Zhigang Jiang

2005 Science Highlights
Project Area	Title	Institution	Contact
900 MHz Science	Oxygen-17 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A new tool for studying biological macromolecules	Mag Lab / FSU	Tim Cross
900 MHz Science	Eight-coil Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microsolenoid Probe	Mag Lab / UF	Art Edison
Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Oscillations and Intense Magnetic Field Tuning of the Charge Order in Na_0.5CoO₂	Mag Lab / FSU	Luis Balicas
Condensed Matter Physics	A new solid phase of two-dimensional electron systems	Mag Lab / FSU	Lloyd Engel
Condensed Matter Physics	Imaging Spin Flows in Semiconductors Subject to Electric, Magnetic and Strain Fields	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Scott Crooker
Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Fluid Transition in the Presence of Disorder	Mag Lab / UF	Yoonseok Lee
Materials Research in Metals	Lattice Distortion in Nano-structured Composites	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Ke Han
Materials Research in Metals	High Magnetic Fields Reveal the Origin of the "Shape Memory" Effect	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Ross McDonald
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Quantitative Measurement of Neuro-degeneration in an ALS–PDC Mouse Model Using MR Microscopy	Mag Lab / UF	Steve Blackband
Educational Outreach	Educational Programs at the National Magnet Laboratory	Mag Lab / FSU	Pat Dixon
Condensed Matter Physics	Glassy Behavior of Spinless Electrons in Silicon Transistors	Mag Lab / FSU	Dragana Popovic
Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetic-Field-Induced Condensation of Triplons in Han Purple Pigment BaCuSi₂O₆	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Marcelo Jaime
Ion Cyclotron Resonance	Weighing Macromolecular Assemblies	Mag Lab / FSU	Alan Marshall
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Developing Techniques using MRI to Monitor Stem Cell Therapy	Mag Lab / UF	Glenn Walter
Condensed Matter Physics	Spectroscopy of Spontaneous Spin Noise as a Probe of Spin Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance	Mag Lab / Los Alamos	Scott Crooker

*The National Science Foundation periodically solicits Highlights from the Magnet Lab, and this research activity was one of 16 highlights submitted on July 31, 2008. NSF highlights use a template and each includes two slides: The first slide presents the research; the second slide discusses broader impacts.

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