Program Objective
The
MURI program is a multi-agency Department of Defense (DoD) program that
supports research teams based on academic research organizations whose
efforts intersect more than one traditional science and engineering
disciplines. This program will provide long-term support for
multidisciplinary team research, graduate students and laboratory
instrumentation development. The team efforts can accelerate research
progress by cross-fertilization of ideas and hasten the transition of
basic research findings to practical applications. This
project "Synthesis and Processing of Nanocomposite Permanent
Magnets" is one of
FY2005 MURI topics entitled "Materials Manufacturing
Processes, Interface Control and Reliability of Nanostructure-Enhanced
Devices of Energy Conversion and Realization of High Performance
Systems". This MURI Program is managed by Dr. Mihal Gross of
Physical Science S&T Division, Office of Naval Research (ONR). This five-year research project led by
Dr.
J. Ping Liu at the Department of Physics,
University of Texas at Arlington, will focus on developing the
theoretical and processing capabilities to exploit nanostructured permanent magnets that exhibit superior
magnetic properties
consistent with the requirements of the DoD applications. The novel
properties result from the inclusion of artificially fabricated
low-dimensional nanostructure and allow rapid advances in bulk
materials synthesis and understanding of the novel concept of complex
media. The total funding for this MURI project is $5 million.
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