News
August 2024
Our new project entitled "Field-Tailoring Science and Technology for Novel Materials Synthesis" has been funded by DoE.
This project is to advance the science and technology of materials fabrication in magnetic fields via magneto-synthesis. The project consists of two parts: 1. We will develop an innovative Field-Tailoring Technology (FTT) that utilizes a laser molten/floating zone furnace coupled with a superconducting magnet to synthesize materials that are inaccessible via existing techniques. 2. We will establish a novel program of research to advance our fundamental understanding of the key processes and mechanisms of magneto-synthesis.
August 2024
Yu Zhang will work as a postdoc at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), joining his fellow alumni Dr. Hao Zheng and Dr. Hengdi Zhao who joined the ANL earlier. Congratulations, Dr. Yu Zhang!
August 12-13, 2024
April 2024
Yu Zhang successfully passed his PhD defense. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
December 2023
Yifei Ni successfully passed his PhD defense. Congratulations, Dr. Ni !
November 2023
Prof. Gang Cao serves as the first Chair of the Executive Committee for the newly established
Feburary 2023
The 2023 Boulder Workshop on Quantum Materials Synthesis will be held at University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder in July 26-29, 2023. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder.
January, 2023
After completing his extraordinarily sucessful PhD research (with 20 publications), Dr. Hengdi Zhao will take a postition at Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoc in March 2023.
November 2022
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Hengdi Zhao successfully passed his PhD defense. Congratulations, Dr. Zhao!
October 2022
Our recent discovery is highlighted in CU Boulder Today:
Physicists probe ‘astonishing’ morphing properties of honeycomb-like material
August 2022
Our most recent paper entitled is published in Nature 611, 467–472 (2022)
This work demonstrats current-control of chiral-orbital-current-enabled colossal magnetoresistance and offers a new paradigm for quantum technologies.
April 2022
Prof. Cao’s single-investigator grant from the NSF Division of Materials Research was renewed in April 2022 for four full years. This award marks 20 years of the NSF continuous support of Prof. Cao's individual research program started in 2002.