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The article reports on the six-year, 21.5-million-dollar material research at the University of Utah. It notes that the Center of Excellence in Materials Research and Innovation funded by a 12-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), 6.5-million dollar from the Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR), and 3-million-dollar from the university. Furthermore, the center will focus on the next-generation materials for plasmonics and spintronics.

The article discusses Utah science sector news briefs as of July 2012 including the invention of an spintronic organic light-emitting diode (OLED) by University of Utah physicists and the 20-million-U.S. dollar competitive grant awarded to Utah by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The article features the high-k dielectrics which can double as filters for spintronic transistors at the 45-nanometers node and beyond according to the researchers at the University of Utah. Ashutosh Tiwari, a materials scientist who led a team at the university's Nanostructured Materials Research Laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that cobalt doped cerium-oxide, it becomes a ferromagnetic insulator and become multifunctional material.