Superconductor group to receive collaboration award

Engineering professor David C. Larbalestier and fellow members of the Wire Development Group will receive the Council for Chemical Research’s Collaboration Success Award for this year.

The award will be presented Sunday, Sept. 10, during CCR’s annual meeting in New Orleans to group researchers who also come from American Superconductor, Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

CCR established the award last year to spread the message thatcollaboration between industry, academic and government laboratory sectors is beneficial to the research community and the country.

The Wire Development Group was formed in 1991 to develop the materials science base required to commercialize a first generation of high temperature superconducting wires for electric power applications

UW–Madison has developed and applied novel measurement and characterization methods to elucidate supercurrent transport within the composite conductor and suggest ways to improve superconducting performance.

The Council for Chemical Research includes more than 200 companies, universities, and government laboratories that conduct research in the chemical sciences and engineering. CCR is dedicated to advancing research in chemistry, chemical engineering, and related disciplines through leadership collaboration across discipline, institution, and sector boundaries.