9600386 Cody The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty- four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Jason A. Cody to work with Professor Jean Rouxel at the Institut Universitaire de France in Nantes, France. Their project is entitled, "Synthesis, Characterization, and Theoretical Band Structure Calculations of the New Misfit-Layer Selenides USe m NbSe2 n 1.0