INDO/US Collaborative Research on Novel Oxide Materials, Award in Indian and U.S. Currency

技术说明：这项提案要求延长之前批准的、正在进行的研究项目“印美合作研究新型氧化物材料”。合作者是班加罗尔印度科学研究所固体和结构化学单元教授C.N.R.Rao和普渡大学材料研究中心的J.M.霍尼格。这项研究将继续开发新型氧化物材料，特别是高温超导体。这项研究包括合成有趣的氧化物体系和考察结构与性质的关系。包括具有K2NiF4结构的高Tc214-氧化物超导体的精选研究和这类材料的相关正常性质。范围：拉奥教授在班加罗尔的团队和霍尼格教授在普渡大学的团队的合作取得了成功，并出版了许多重要的出版物。拉奥是印度最杰出的科学家之一。他在材料和结构化学的多个领域进行了开创性的研究。这一项目很可能会在新材料领域和更好的材料表征方面取得重大进展。霍尼格博士是新成立的印第安纳州创新超导技术中心的参与者，印第安纳州为该中心的第一年运营提供了50万美元。他与拉奥博士的合作将非常符合该中心的目标，也符合加强美国材料科学研究的目标。

Technical Narrative: This proposal requests renewal of a previously approved and active research project "INDO-US Collaborative Research on Novel Oxide Materials." The collaborators are C.N.R. Rao, Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and J.M. Honig, Materials Research Center, Purdue University. The research will continue development of novel oxide materials with special attention to high temperature superconductors. The research includes synthesis of interesting oxide systems and examination of structure-property relations. Included are selected studies of high Tc 214-oxide superconductors with the K2NiF4 structure and related normal properties of this class of materials. Scope: The collaboration of Professor Rao's team at Bangalore and Professor Honig's team at Purdue has been successful and resulted in a number of significant publications. Rao is one of India's most distinguished scientists. He has done pioneering research in numerous areas of materials and structural chemistry. It is likely that this project will result in significant advances in the field of new materials and better material characterization. Dr. Honig is a participant in a newly established Indiana Center for Innovative Superconductivity Technology, which was provided $500,000 for the first year of operation by the State of Indiana. His work with Dr. Rao would fit well with the objectives of that center, and with enhancing materials science research in the U.S.