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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

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.