joined MetOx (December 2023
Category Archives: News
Received $2M award from Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e)
to develop low-cost, high-throughput techniques to manufacture superconductor tapes. (October 2023) https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/exploratory-topics/superconducting-tape
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student)
selected as one of eight Chevron Energy Fellows among 60+ applicants (August 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/august-2023/08252023-uh-chevron-energy-fellow.php
One of six awardees of CABLE Manufacturing Prize ($200,000 cash)
from the U.S. Department of Energy in Stage 2 competition for work on advanced manufacturing of superconductors. (May 2023) https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2023/stage-2-winners-of-a-manufacturing-prize-are-supercharging-u-s-industries.html
Received $800k DURIP award from Office of Naval Research
for a Pulsed Laser Deposition tool for development of advanced superconductor tapes. (June 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/june-2023/06282023-selva-pulsed-laser-navy-grant.php
Puskar Pathak (Ph.D. student)
received 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2023)
Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student)
received the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship. (May 2023)
Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award
in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023)
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award
in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023)
AMPeers and UH Group receive $1.7M Navy Phase II STTR award
– (March 2023) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a $1.7M funding for Phase II STTR project on “Defect-tolerant REBCO Tapes” from the U.S. Navy.