Research on Novel Oxide Materials, Indo-U.S. Collaboration

描述：该项目支持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博士与普渡大学材料研究中心John Honig博士的合作项目的美国部分。这项研究包括新型氧化物材料的开发，特别是高温超导体。这项工作包括合成有趣的氧化物体系和研究结构-性质关系。它还包括发现具有不同寻常的电子和磁性的新型氧化物，包括在相对较高的温度下具有非常重要的超导特性。这个项目是霍尼格博士和拉奥博士在早期NSF拨款下进行的研究的更新。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，并出版了大量出版物。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。

Description: This project supports the U. S. component of a cooperative project by Dr. C. N. R. Rao, Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, with Dr. John Honig, Materials Research Center, Purdue University. The research covers development of novel oxide materials with special focus on high temperature superconductors. The work includes synthesis of interesting oxide systems and examination of structure-property relations. It also includes the discovery of new classes of oxides with unusual electronic and magnetic properties, including the very inportant property of superconductivity at relatively high temperatures. This project is a renewal of research that Drs. Honig and Rao carried under earlier NSF grants. Scope: The collaboration of Professor Rao's team at Bangalore and Professor Honig's team at Purdue has been successful and resulted in a significant number of 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.