Congratulations to the University of Utah Materials Science researchers and collaborators in Physics and Electrical Engineering for their new $21.5M center of excellence aimed at fundamental research in the areas of organic spintronics (for advanced data storage) and plasmonic metamaterials (for improved microscope resolution and for increased data transfer speeds).  For more information, see http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/21-5-million-for-materials-research.