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Résumé |
The High Pressure Science and Engineering (HiPSEC) program at UNLV, established in July 1998 with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, brings together chemists, mechanical engineers, and physicists to consider fundamental experimental, computational, and engineering problems of materials under high pressure. In 2008, HiPSEC had a budget of $3.3 M supporting around 60 personnel. A major part of the HiPSEC budget goes to UNLV’s contribution to the High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HP-CAT) at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois. HP-CAT is a leading synchrotron facility for high-pressure multidisciplinary research. I will review the various x-ray diffraction and x-ray spectroscopy capabilities of HP-CAT.
In addition to the overview of HiPSEC and HP-CAT, I will discuss some recent results from my group. We are interested in studies of materials for alternative energy generation and correlated-electron materials. In particular, I will review recent results on thermoelectric materials, materials for hydrogen storage, heavy fermion systems, and unconventional superconductivity.
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