Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies Enters Into R&D Collaboration Agreement with the University of Houston
July 30 2009 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), a division of
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), today announced that it has
entered into a sponsored research agreement with the University of
Houston (UH) focusing on the testing and characterization of its
second-generation (2G, also referred to as YBCO) high-temperature
superconductor tapes, with Professor Venkat Selvamanickam serving
as principal investigator on behalf of UH.
Dr. Selvamanickam (‘Selva’), who was Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer of SuperPower, Inc. before joining the UH
faculty as the M. D. Anderson Chair Professor in Mechanical
Engineering in September 2008, will lead and coordinate the testing
and characterization efforts of two other UH researchers, and
provide scientific reports and recommendations to BEST. The
optimized coated conductors (2G tape) will be provided to UH by
BEST, a leading developer and manufacturer of both first and second
generation high temperature superconductors (HTS). Financial terms
of the agreement were not disclosed.
Dr. Klaus Schlenga, the Chief Technology Officer of BEST, said:
“Dr. Selvamanickam is very well known and highly respected in the
HTS community, and we are delighted to be working together. We have
retained the University of Houston and Selva to analyze and
characterize our 2G wire, and we hope this collaboration leads to
additional joint projects on HTS conductors and devices in the
future. We expect the characterization and testing to be performed
by UH to give us insights into how we can even further improve our
2G tape.”
Dr. Selvamanickam further commented: “The Texas Center for
Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TCSUH) has recently
created an Applied Research Hub to enhance industrial
collaboration. We are very pleased to have BEST participate as one
of the early collaborators with the Hub. TCSUH has excellent
facilities for processing and characterization of coated conductors
which we expect to be very beneficial for the superconductor
industry in general.”
BEST also announced that it has extended a long-running
consulting agreement with Dr. Herbert C. Freyhardt, a research
professor at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the
University of Houston.
About Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies:
The Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) division of
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), which was formerly known as
Bruker Advanced Supercon, includes operations in Germany, the UK
and the United States. Together with its majority-owned RI GmbH
subsidiary, BEST is a world leader in the development and
manufacturing of superconducting and normal conducting rf cavities
and systems, linear accelerators, and special products for physics
and energy research, as well as superconducting devices, specialty
magnets, circular accelerators, vacuum systems, and x-ray and
particle beamlines. BEST manufactures and sells over 20,000 miles
of niobium-titanium (NbTi) and niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) LTS wire
annually. BEST is also a leading manufacturer of both 1G BSCCO and
2G YBCO HTS materials and devices, based on its broad HTS
technology platform. The BEST proprietary SuperFast™ inductive
superconducting fault current limiter (iSFCL) has the
potential to enhance power grid reliability, and BEST HTS current
leads can dramatically reduce electrical losses in large industrial
and research magnets. Conductors and components made by BEST are
being used to build new generations of compact high power devices
such as HTS motors, generators, cables and transformers, as well as
high field magnets for medical and research applications. BEST also
offers the light-weight Cuponal™ conductor for the aviation
industry. For more information: www.advancedsupercon.com or
www.bruker.com.
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