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DOE Awards $12 Million for ‘Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems’ Project

A UC Riverside-led research project is among the 32 named today by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz as an Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), designed to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy in the United States.

Jing Shi, a professor of physics and astronomy, to lead the SHINES initiative. Credit: University of California, Riverside

“Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems” (SHINES) will receive $12 million over four years from the Department of Energy. The lead researcher is UC Riverside Professor of Physics Jing Shi, who will work with researchers from seven universities.

SHINES is one of 10 new projects announced today, along with 22 other projects receiving new funding based on achievements to date. The Department of Energy announced a total of $100 million in funding to support fundamental advances in energy production, storage, and use.

“Today we are mobilizing some of our most talented scientists to join forces and pursue the discoveries and breakthroughs that will lay the foundation for our nation’s energy future,” Secretary Moniz said. “The funding we’re announcing today will help fuel innovation.”

He said the intent of the Energy Frontier Research Centers is to make fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments.

“I am happy to hear the news,” said Shi, the UCR physics professor who has put together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from UC Riverside, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Arizona State University, University of Texas, Austin and Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the scientific advances that they come up with,” said Michael Pazzani, UC Riverside’s Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development. “This is exactly the kind of scientific leadership that UC Riverside has been encouraging and supporting This project will lay the groundwork for energy technology for the nation.”

SHINES will investigate several aspects of basic research: new ultrathin films, nanostructured composites, high resolution imaging, the transport of electrical signals, heat and light. “All of it will be studied, modeled and simulated in order to help the nation’s ability to advance in the way we use energy,” said Shi, the lead researcher.

The SHINES team:

Alexander Balandin, University of California, Riverside
Tingyong Chen, Arizona State University
Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University
Javier Garay, University of California, Riverside
Alexander Khitun, University of California, Riverside
Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine
Roger Lake, University of California, Riverside
Chun-Ning (Jeanie) Lau, University of California, Riverside
Elaine (Xiaoqin) Li, University of Texas at Austin
Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Kang L. Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Mingzhong Wu, Colorado State University at Fort Collins
Ruqian Wu, University of California, Irvine

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