Researchers at the MagLab are making discoveries today that will lead to the technologies of tomorrow. Whether a member of one of our robust in-house research groups or one of the nearly 1,400 outside scientists who do experiments here annually, MagLab researchers understand how high magnetic fields lead to making big discoveries.
Seeking the most powerful magnetic fields on Earth, scientists and engineers from across the world come to the MagLab to explore promising new materials, solve energy challenges and grow our understanding of living things. This kind of research has played a critical role in developing new technologies used every day – from electric lights and computers to motors, plastics, high-speed trains and MRI. Find out more by exploring our research initiatives, learning about our interdisciplinary research, or digging deeper into the hundreds of publications generated annually by MagLab researchers.
Research Initiatives
MATERIALS
Scientists use our magnets to explore semiconductors, superconductors, newly-grown crystals, buckyballs and materials from the natural world — research that reveals the secret workings of materials and empowers us to develop new technologies.
ENERGY
Scientists here are working to optimize petroleum refining, advance potential bio-fuels such as pine needles and algae, and fundamentally change the way we store and deliver energy by developing better batteries.
LIFE
With the world’s strongest MRI magnet, scientists here study everything from living animals to individual cells, from proteins to disease-fighting molecules found in plants and animals — work that could improve treatment of AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
Latest Science Highlight
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Extreme re-entrant superconductivity
28 October 2019
Studies of uranium ditelluride in high magnetic fields show superconductivity switching off at 35 T, but reoccurring at higher magnetic fields between 40 and 65 T.
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Emergent states of matter in chemically doped quantum magnets
28 October 2019
Research on doped SrCu2(BO3)2 shows anomalies in the magnetization.
Featured Publications
Hafnium greatly improves Nb3Sn superconductor for high field magnets, S. Balachandran, et al., Superconductor Science and Technology,32, 044006 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
Why does magnetic switching occur at such high magnetic fields in Sr3NiIrO6? , K.R. O'Neal, et al., njp Quantum Materials,4, 48 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
Identification of abnormal hemoglobin from human blood , L. He, et al., Clinical Chemistry,65 (8), 986-994 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
Topological structural defects in the spin liquid candidate TbInO3 , J.W. Kim, et al., Phys. Rev. X, 9, 031005 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
Luttinger liquid behavior of helium-three in nanotubes , J. Adams, et al., J. Low Temp. Phys., 196 (1-2), 308-313 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
Ultra-high magnetic fields provide new insights into bone-like materials, C. Bonhomme, et al., Chemical Communications, 54 (69), 9591-9594 (2018) See Science Highlight or Read online
Unconventional Field-Induced Spin Gap in an S = 1=2 Chiral Staggered Chain, J. Liu, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 057207 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online
NMR-based Metabolomics of Coral with Resistance to Bleaching, K. E. Lohr, et al., Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 6067 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online