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2012 Science & Engineering Research Summaries
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Dec. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	“Listening” to the Spin Noise of Holes Coupled to Nuclear Spin Baths in InGaAs Quantum Dots	LANL / PFF	Scott Crooker
Dec. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Long-lived Photoinduced Magnetization in Copper-doped ZnSe/CdSe Core/Shell Nanocrystals	LANL / PFF	Scott Crooker
Dec. 7	Chemistry	Transport of Gases in Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes by Multinuclear Pulsed Field Gradient NMR	UF / AMRIS	Sergey Vasenkov
Dec. 7	Chemistry	Microscopic Transport in Mixtures of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Carbon Dioxide by Pulsed Field Gradient NMR	UF / AMRIS	Sergey Vasenkov
Dec. 4	Chemistry	Increasing ¹³C CP-MAS NMR Resolution Using Single Crystals: Application to Model Octaethyl Porphyrins	FSU / NMR	Sneha Dugar
Oct. 22	Condensed Matter Physics	Anisotropic Cascade of Field-Induced Phase Transitions in the Frustrated Spin-Ladder System BiCu₂PO₆	LANL / PFF	Marcelo Jaime
Oct. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Cascade of Magnetic Field Induced Spin Transitions in LaCoO₃	LANL / PFF	Marcelo Jaime
Oct. 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetostriction to 100.75 Tesla in frustrated SrCu₂(BO₃)₂	LANL / PFF	Marcelo Jaime
Aug. 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Elastic Interaction Effects in Model Spin-crossover Materials	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Per Arne Rikvold
Aug. 14	Chemistry	Unusually Strong Exchange Interactions in Dinuclear Copper Complexes	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
July 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Effects of Spin Polarization in the HgTe Quantum Well	FSU / DC Field	Alexey Suslov
July 17	Condensed Matter Physics	Tunable Dirac Magneto-Plasmons in Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Zhiqiang (Jason) Li
July 9	Applied Superconductivity	Evidence That Filament Fracture Occurs in an ITER Toroidal Field Conductor After Cyclic Lorentz Force Loading in SULTAN	FSU / ASC	Charlie Sanabria or Peter Lee
June 26	Condensed Matter Physics	The Angular Magnetothermoelectric Power of a Charge Density Wave System	FSU / DC Field	Danica Krstovska or James Brooks
June 26	Chemistry	Novel Complexes Featuring Unusual Polynuclear Co(III)-Fe(III) Cores	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
June 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin and Valley Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Andrea Young or Phillip Kim
June 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Low-temperature Thermodynamic Properties Near the Field-induced Quantum Critical Point in NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂ (DTN)	LANL / PFF	Franziska Weickert or Marcelo Jaime
May 18	Chemistry	Unusually Strong Anisotropic Exchange Interactions in a Copper Dimer	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
Mar. 30	Chemistry	Diagnostic NH and OH Vibrations for Oxazolone and Diketopiperazine Structures: b2 from Protonated Triglycine	UF / Chemistry	Nicolas Polfer
Mar. 28	Condensed Matter Physics	Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a Pseudotetrahedral Cobalt(II) Complex with Easy-Plane Anisotropy	FSU / DC Field	Steve Hill
Mar. 14	Chemistry	The Role of Calcium in Metalloenzymes	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek
Mar. 6	Chemistry	High-Field EPR Evidence for the Rare Cr(IV) Dimeric Species Important in Oxygen Activation	FSU / EMR	Vasanth Ramachandran or Naresh Dalal
Mar. 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Anisotropic H_c2 Determined Up to 92 T and the Signature of Multiband Superconductivity in Ca₁₀(Pt₄As₈)((Fe _1-xPt_x)₂As₂)₅ Superconductor	LANL / PFF	Eundeok Mun
Mar. 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Upper Critical Fields and Two-Band Superconductivity in Sr_1?xEu_x(Fe_0.89Co_0.11)₂As₂	LANL / PFF	Eundeok Mun
Mar. 1	Geochemistry	Chinese Lead Deposition Dominates the North Pacific Ocean	FSU / Geochemistry	Clifton Buck or William Landing
Mar. 9	Condensed Matter Physics	ESR Study of Single-ion Two-Magnon Bound States in DTN	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek
Feb 13	Condensed Matter Physics	Orbital, Charge, and Spin Couplings in Ru₂⁵⁺O₉ Dimers of Ba₃CoRu₂O₉	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Haidong Zhou
Feb. 13	Applied Superconductivity	Improved Superconducting Properties in BaZrO₃-doped YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δFilms by Grown by Fluorine-free Metal–organic Deposition	FSU / ASC	Fumitake Kametani or Eric Hellstrom
Jan 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Exchange Anisotropies in Quasi-1D CuSe₂O₅ as Reveal by ESR	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
Jan 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Selecting Magnetic Chirality in Acentric Ba₃NbFe₃Si₂O₁₄	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski

2011 Science & Engineering Research Summaries
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Dec. 23	Geochemistry	Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores	FSU / Geochemistry	Yang Wang
Dec 12	Condensed Matter Physics	Acoustic Studies of AC Conductivity Mechanisms in n-GaAs/AlGaAs in the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall	FSU / DC Field	Ivan Smirnov
Dec 9	Biochemistry	Hydrogen Bonding of Tryptophan Radicals Revealed by EPR at 700 GHz	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek or Stefan Stoll
Nov 29	Biochemistry	Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a Nickel(II) complex	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
Nov 29	Chemistry	High-Frequency and -Field EPR Study of the [Fe(H₂O)₆]²⁺ Ion	FSU / EMR	Andrew Ozarowski
Oct 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Anisotropic Hysteretic Hall-effect and Field-induced Chiral Domains in the Chiral Spin States of Pr₂Ir₂O₇	DC Field	Luis Balicas
Sept 26	Condensed Matter Science	Magnetic Monopole Dimers in "Correlated" Spin Ice	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Haidong Zhou
Sept 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Heat-assisted Magnetization Reversal in Ultrathin Films (2 Slides)	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Per Rikvold
Sept 7	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin-polarized Mn Emission from Mn-doped Nanocrystals	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
Aug 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Skyrmions in a Doped Antiferromagnet	FSU / DC Field	Dragana Popovic
July 19	Condensed Matter NMR	Electronic inhomogeneity in a Kondo lattice	FSU / DC Field	Ricardo Urbano
July 15	Condensed Matter Science	Quantum Critical Transport Near the Mott Transition	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Hanna Terletska or Vlad Dobrosavljevic
July 14	Biochemistry	In Vivo Sodium MRI at 21.1T and Tumor Resistance to Therapy	FSU / NMR	Victor Schepkin
May 23	Petroleomics	Characterization of Naphthenic Acids in Crude Oils and Naphthenates by Electrospray Ionization FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry	FSU / ICR	Mmilili M. Mapolelo or Alan Marshall
May 6	Condensed Matter Physics	Robust Properties of the Superconducting Ferromagnet UCoGe	FSU / DC Field	Danica Krstovska
May 5	Condensed Matter NMR	Evidence for a Glassy Phase in a MOF Ferroelectric Lattice from Unexpected Jumps in T₁	FSU / DC Field	Tiglet Besara or Naresh Dalal
May 2	Biochemistry	Probing Interactions within Anthrax Toxin by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance	FSU / EMR	Likai Song
April 13	Condensed Matter Physics	Magneto-electric Effects in an Organo-metallic Quantum Magnet	LANL / PFF	Vivien Zapf
April 13	Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Fluctuations and Strong Mass Renormalization in NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂	LANL / PFF	Vivien Zapf
April 12	Condensed Matter Science	Spin Liquid State in the S = 1/2 Triangular Lattice Ba₃CuSb₂O₉	FSU / DC Field	H.D. Zhou
April 12	Condensed Matter Science	Co[V₂]O₄: A Spinel Approaching the Itinerant Electron Limit	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	H.D. Zhou
April 4	Energy	High-Frequency and -Field EPR of Catalytic Metal Complexes	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek
April 4	Energy	Magnetic Structure of Tryptophan Radicals	FSU / EMR	Stefan Stoll
April 4	Energy	In situ ¹³C CPMAS NMR Study of Porous Coordination Polymer	FSU / NMR	Riqiang Fu
April 4	Energy	Non-invasive in situ NMR Methodology Development for Characterization of Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery	FSU / NMR	Riqiang Fu
April 4	Energy	A Novel 9.4 Tesla FT-ICR Mass Spectrometer with Improved Sensitivity, Mass Resolution, and Mass Range, for Petroleum Heavy Crude Oil Analysis	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall or Chris Hendrickson
April 4	Energy	Analysis and Identification of Biomarkers and Origin of Color in a Bright Blue Crude Oil	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall or Amy McKenna
March 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Anisotropic H_c2 of K_0.8Fe_1.76Se₂ Determined up to 60 T	LANL / Pulsed Field	Eun Deok Mun
March 9	Condensed Matter Physics	Metal to Semimetal Transition in CaMgSi Crystals Grown from Mg-Al Flux	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Jeffrey Whalen
March 3	Chemistry	Vibrational Signatures of Zwitterionic and Charge-solvated Structures for Alkaline Earth-tryptophan Dimer Complexes in the Gas Phase	FSU / ICR	Nicolas Polfer
March 1	Condensed Matter Physics	Heat Capacity Through the Magnetic-field-induced Resistive transition in an Underdoped High-Temperature Superconductor	FSU / DC Field Facility & LANL / Pulsed Field Facility	Scott Riggs or Greg Boebinger
Jan. 13	Condensed Matter Physics	Interaction-induced Shift of the Cyclotron Resonance in Monolayer Graphene	FSU / DC Field Facility	Zhigang Jiang
Jan. 5	Chemistry	Reactivity and Spectroscopic Studies of a "Masked" Three-Coordinate Vanadium(II) Complex	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek

2010 Science & Engineering Research Summaries
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Dec. 1	Chemical Engineering	Influence of Water on Diffusion in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids by NMR	UF / AMRIS	Sergey Vasenkov
Dec. 1	Chemical Engineering	Direct Measurements of the Permeability of the Boundaries of Membrane Domains by NMR	UF / AMRIS	Sergey Vasenkov
Sept. 16	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetically-Induced Electric Polarization in Organo-Metallic Magnets	LANL / Pulsed Field	Vivien Zapf
Aug. 26	Biochemistry	2-Anthryltriazolyl-containing Multidentate Ligands: Zinc-coordination mediated photophysical processes and potential in live-cell imaging applications	FSU / Optical Microscopy	Lei Zhu or Mike Davidson
Aug. 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin Noise of Electrons and Holes in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
Aug. 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Revealing the Exciton Fine Structure of PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Using Optical Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
Aug. 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Ultrasound Attenuation and a P-B-T Phase Diagram of Superfluid ³He in 98% Aerogel	UF / High B/T	Yoonseok Lee or Mark Meisel
Aug. 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Frequency Dependent Ultrasound Attenuation in Superfluid ³He in Aerogel	UF / High BT	Yoonseok Lee or Mark Meisel
Aug. 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Suppression of the Critical Current at Grain Boundaries of High-temperature Superconductors	UF / Physics	Peter Hirschfeld
July 14	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetic Strong Coupling in a Spin-Photon System and Transition to Classical Regime	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Irinel Chiorescu
July 13	Biochemistry	Nucleotide-Induced Flexibility Change in Neck Linkers of Dimeric Kinesin as Detected by Distance Measurements Using Spin-Labeling EPR	FSU / EMR	Likai Song or Peter Fajer
June 24	Condensed Matter Science	Low-temperature Spin Dynamics in the Kagomé System Pr₃Ga₅SiO₁₄	FSU / DC Field Facility	Michael Hoch
June 17	Biochemistry	Initial In Vivo Rodent Sodium and Proton MR Imaging at 21.1 T	FSU / NMR	Victor Schepkin
April 28	Chemistry	Vanadium(III)-Tristhiolato Complexes Relevant to Functional Models of Vanadium Nitrogenase: Synthesis and Electronic Structure Investigations by HFEPR Coupled to Quantum Chemical Computations	FSU / EMR	Joshua Telser or Jurek Krzystek
April 26	Chemistry	Cobalt(II) “Scorpionate” Complexes as Models for Cobalt-Substituted Zinc Enzymes: Electronic Structure Investigation by High-Frequency and -Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	FSU / EMR	Joshua Telser or Jurek Krzystek
March 8	Condensed Matter Physics	Effects of Surfactants and Alignment on the Physical Properties of SWNT Buckypaper	FSU / DC Field & Condensed Matter Science	Jin Gyu Park or James Brooks
March 3	Condensed Matter Physics / EPR	Quantum Critical Point in a S= ½ Antiferromagnet	FSU / Condensed Matter Science & UF Physics	Naresh Dalal or Saritha Nellutla
Jan. 25	Chemistry / Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetic Clusters in Polyoxometalates	FSU / EMR	Naresh Dalal or Saritha Nellutla
Jan. 13	Condensed Matter Physics	First Measurements of the Field-dependent Nonlinear Meissner Effect: A probe of the pairing symmetry	FSU / Condensed Matter Science & ASC	Irinel Chiorescu

2009 Science & Engineering Summaries
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Dec. 17	Medicinal Chemistry	GrassystatinsA—C from Marine Cyanobacteria, Potent CathepsinE Inhibitors That Reduce Antigen Presentation	UF / AMRIS	Hendrik Luesch
Dec. 7	Condensed Matter Physics	Field-Induced Bose-Einstein Condensation of Triplons up to 8 K in Sr₃Cr₂O₈	FSU / DC Field & LANL / Pulsed Field	Marcelo Jaime
Dec. 4	Condensed Matter Physics	Pinning Mode Resonances of 2D Electron Stripe Phases: Effect of an In-Plane Magnetic Field B_ip	FSU / DC Field Facility	Han Zhu
Dec. 3	Condensed Matter NMR	Non-Korringa Nuclear Relaxation in the Ferromagnetic Phase of the Bilayered Manganite La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇	FSU / DC Field Facility	Michael Hoch
Nov. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetoelastic Coupling through the Field-driven Transition to the Fully Polarized State in a Metal Organic Framework Material	FSU / DC Field Facility	Jan Musfeldt
Nov. 6	Condensed Matter NMR	Flux Quanta Driven by High-density Currents in Low-impurity V₃Si and LuNi₂B₂C: Free flux flow and core size effects	FSU / DC Field Facility	Arneil Reyes
Oct. 27	Condensed Matter Physics	Interplay of Frustration and Magnetic Field in 2D Quantum Antiferromagnet	UF / High B/T	Mark Meisel
Oct. 26	Chemistry, Energy Storage	Mg/Al Ordering in Layered Double Hydroxides Revealed by Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy (2 pages)	FSU / NMR	Clare Grey or Zhehong Gan
Oct. 20	Condensed Matter NMR	Two Inequivalent Sublattices and Orbital Ordering in MnV₂O₄ by ⁵¹V NMR	FSU / DC Field Facility	Seung-Ho Baek or Arneil Reyes
Oct. 20	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Intergrain Current Flow in a Randomly Oriented Polycrystalline SmFeAsO_0.85 Oxypnictide (2 slides)	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Fumitake Kametani
Oct. 15	Chemistry / Condensed Matter Physics	Multiferroic Metal Organic Frameworks	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Prashant Jain or Naresh Dalal
Sept. 30	Condensed Matter Physics	A New Mechanism for Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in d-wave Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields	FSU / Condensed Matter Physics	Robert Throckmorton or Oskar Vafek
Sept. 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Coherent Spin Rotation in the Presence of a Phonon-bottleneck Effect	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Lei Chen or Irinel Chiorescu
Sept. 18	Geochemistry	Research on Climate Change	FSU / Geochemistry	Vincent Salters
Sept. 14	Condensed Matter Physics	Revealing Intrinsic Quantum Properties of Molecular Nanomagnets	FSU / EMR	Stephen Hill
Sept. 8	Condensed Matter Physics, Theory	Effects of Elastic Interactions in a Model Spin-Crossover Material	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Per Rikvold
Aug. 26	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Evidence for Highly Localized Damage in Internal Tin and Powder-in-tube Nb₃Sn Strands Rolled Before Reaction Obtained from Coupled Magneto-optical Imaging and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Anatolii Polyanskii or Peter Lee
Aug. 17	Biochemistry	The M2 Proton Channel from Influenza A Virus and a Structural Model for Channel Activation	FSU / NMR	Myunggi Yi
Aug. 17	Biochemistry	Unsymmetrical Fe^IIICo^II and Ga^IIICo^II Complexes as Chemical Hydrolases. Biomimetic Models for Purple Acid Phosphatases (PAPs)	FSU / EMR	Jurek Krzystek
Aug. 17	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Characterization of High Jc Nb₃Sn Strands for the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet	FSU / Magnet Science & Technology	Jun Lu
Aug. 12	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Stability of Second Generation HTS Pancake Coils at 4.2K for High Heat Flux Applications	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Honghai Song
Aug. 12	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Stability and Quench Behavior of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x Coated Conductor at 4.2 K Self-Field	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Honghai Song
July 27	Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Critical Spin Dynamics of an S=1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain Studied by ¹³C-NMR Spectroscopy	FSU / DC Field	Hannes Kühne or Arneil Reyes
July 7	Chemistry	University Detailed Characterization of Naphthenic Acids in Naphthenate Deposits	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall
July 7	Chemistry	Aquatic Plant-derived Changes in Oil Sands Naphthenic Acid Signatures	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall
June 22	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetization-driven Metal-insulator Transition in Strongly Disordered Ge:Mn Magnetic Semiconductors	FSU / DC Field	Sasha Gerber or Alexey Suslov
June 18	Magnets & Materials, Engineering	Dynamic Magneto-optical Imaging of Transport Current Redistribution and Normal Zone Propagation in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Coated Conductor	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Honghai Song
June 15	Condensed Matter Physics	Large Magnetoresistance of a Dilute 2DHG in p-Si/SiGe/Si in a Parallel Magnetic Field	FSU / DC Field	I.L. Drichko or Alexey Suslov
April 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Observation of a Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν=1/4 in a Wide GaAs Quantum Well	FSU / DC Field	Dwight Luhman
April 16	Chemistry	Heterotetranuclear Oxalato-Bridged Re^IV₃M^II (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) Complexes: A New Example of a Single-Molecule Magnet (M = Ni)	FSU / EMR	F. Jose Martínez-Lillo or Jurek Krzystek
March 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Determination of Anisotropic Hc₂ up to 60 T in Ba_0.55K_0.45Fe₂As₂ Single Crystals	LANL / Pulsed Field	Paul Canfield
March 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Nearly Isotropic superconductivity in (Ba,K)Fe₂As₂	LANL / Pulsed Field	John Singleton
March 2	Condensed Matter Physics	Thermodynamics of the Spin Luttinger Liquid in a Model Ladder Material	LANL / Pulsed Field	Vivien Zapf
March 2	Condensed Matter Physics	Circular Polarization of Photoluminescence Spectra of Individual CdSe Nanocrystals in an Applied Magnetic Field	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
March 2	Condensed Matter Physics	Tunable Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Mn-doped ZnSe/CdSe Core/Shell Nanocrystal Quantum Dots	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
March 2	Condensed Matter Physics	"Listening" to the Spin Noise of Conduction Electrons in Semiconductors	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Crooker
Feb. 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Pseudo-isotropic Upper Critical Field in Cobalt-doped SrFe₂As₂ Epitaxial Films	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Baily
Feb. 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Critical Properties at the Field-Induced BEC in NiCl₂-SC(NH₂)₂	LANL / Pulsed Field	Marcelo Jaime
Feb. 10	Condensed Matter Physics	Multiphoton Coherent Manipulation in Large-Spin Qubits	FSU / EMR	Irinel Chiorescu
Feb. 3	Condensed Matter Physics	Large Nuclear Polarization of ³¹P in Silicon	FSU / EMR	Hans van Tol

2008 Science & Engineering Summaries
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
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 Summaries
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
Aug. 22	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Characterization of Nb₃Sn Superconductors for Hybrid Magnets	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
Aug. 20	Condensed Matter Physics	Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth	FSU / DC Field	Kamran Behnia or Luis Balicas
Aug. 20	Magnets & Materials Engineering	I_C Axial Strain Dependence of High Current Density Nb₃Sn Conductors	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
Aug. 16	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Construction of the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet (4 slides)	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird
Aug. 14	Education	Magnet Lab Education Programs: Making an Impact in STEM Education	FSU / CIRL	Pat Dixon
Aug. 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 Summaries
Project Area	Title	Institution	Contact
Condensed Matter Physics	Linear-T Scattering in a High-Tc Superconductor	MagLab / FSU	Luis Balicas
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Nanomaterials for Live Cell Tracking	MagLab / FSU, UF	Sam Grant
Condensed Matter Physics	Sixty Tesla Magnetic Fields Probe the Nanoscale	MagLab / Los Alamos	Scott Crooker
Magnetic Resonance Imaging	High T_c Probe Enables Natural Products NMR	MagLab / FSU, UF	Art Edison
Materials Research	Applied Superconductivity Center at the Magnet Lab Links Research and Commercial Applications	MagLab / FSU	David Larbalestier
Condensed Matter Physics	Opening a New Window on Newly-Developed Metals, Enabled by a Novel World-Record Electromagnet	MagLab / Los Alamos	Alex Lacerda
Condensed Matter Physics	Fermi Surface Studies across a Néel Phase Boundary	MagLab / Los Alamos	Neil Harrison
Condensed Matter Physics	Han Purple Pigment Loses a Dimension	MagLab / Los Alamos	Neil Harrison
Condensed Matter Physics	Unprecedented Flexibility for Fermi-surface Studies	MagLab / Los Alamos	John Singleton
Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Hall Effect on Graphene at 45 T	MagLab / FSU	Zhigang Jiang

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

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