"The University of Minnesota announced today that it will receive $2.6 million over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The grant will be used to study materials at the most fundamental level that could improve important technologies including data storage, superconductors, fuel cells, and electrical power plants.
The new Center for Quantum Materials brings together an interdisciplinary research team from the University of Minnesota’s School of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. They will study chemical compounds, called complex oxides, that are notable for their wide range of magnetic and electrical properties."
Read the full article, University of Minnesota receives major U.S. Department of Energy grant to study next generation of materials, from the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering.