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MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

Device mimics brain synapses
	This electrochemical device is significant for areas of research such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition.
Single-element topological Dirac semimetal created under strain
	The only simple-element topological Dirac semimetal discovered to-date, a-Sn now joins Na3Bi and Cd3As2.
Nano Focus: Sliding metals: A quantitative roadmap for low-friction materials
	Researchers expanded on existing deformation models and discussed additional properties of real-life systems that follow-up research must consider.

Industry Focus

IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip
It is built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography.

Global Warming Gas Can Now Be Extracted from Air and Resold
This technology could help cut 1% of global fossil fuel emissions by 2025, according to Climeworks, the spin-off company from ETH Zurich who developed the technology.

Policy Focus

Materials researchers join historic March for Science
Cities representing key hubs of materials research participated in the event, from Boston to San Francisco, and Tokyo to London.


OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

Manufacturing Li-ion batteries for safety and performance
The benefit of the Li-ion cell lies in its high energy and power density, which has given manufacturers scope to produce high-performance gadgets that are also very small. But this, in turn, can pose a problem.

Physicists accelerate plans for a new Large Hadron Collider three times as big
An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.


MEETINGS UPDATE

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

JUST PUBLISHED

	Boundary Behavior and Confinement of Screw Dislocations
	Marco Morandotti, MRS Advances
	Diamond x-ray optics: Transparent, resilient, high-resolution, and wavefront preserving
	Yuri Shvyd’ko, Vladimir Blank, and Sergey Terentyev, MRS Bulletin
	Influence of a high magnetic field on the solidification structures of ternary Al–Fe–Zr alloy
	Lei Li, Xuchen Shi, Haitao Zhang, Yubo Zuo, Qingfeng Zhu, Xiangjie Wang, Jianzhong Cui and Hiromi Nagaumi, Journal of Materials Research
	Materials for x-ray refractive lenses minimizing wavefront distortions
	Thomas Roth, Lucia Alianelli, Daniel Lengeler, Anatoly Snigirev, and Frank Seiboth, MRS Bulletin
	New materials for high-energy-resolution x-ray optics
	Hasan Yavaş, John P. Sutter, Thomas Gog, Hans-Christian Wille, and Alfred Q.R. Baron, MRS Bulletin
	Next-generation materials for future synchrotron and free-electron laser sources
	Lahsen Assoufid and Heinz Graafsma, MRS Bulletin
	Reaction kinetics of Cu2-xS, ZnS, and SnS2 to form Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2SnS3 studied using differential scanning calorimetry
	Elizabeth A. Pogue, Melissa Goetter and Angus Rockett, MRS Advances
	Tellurium-doped lanthanum manganite as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
	V. Celorrio, L.J. Morris, M. Cattelan, N.A. Fox and D.J. Fermin, MRS Communications
	Temperature and Phase Transition Sensing in Liquids with Fluorescent Probes
	I. Shishkin, T. Alon, R. Dagan and P. Ginzburg, MRS Advances
	The weakest size of precipitated alloys in the micro regime: the case of duralumin
	Kefu Gan, Rui Gu, and Alfonso H.W. Ngan, Journal of Materials Research

Bio Focus

	Green synthesis and antibacterial activity of hydroxyapatite nanorods for orthopedic applications
	Govindan Suresh Kumar, Senkotuvel Rajendran, Sekar Karthi, Raji Govindan, Easwaradas Kreedapathy Girija, Gopalu Karunakaran and Denis Kuznetsov, MRS Communications

Energy Focus

	Comment on “The challenge of energy-efficient transportation” J. Hermans
	Peter Rez, MRS Energy & Sustainability
	Synthesis and characterization of iron nanoparticles on partially reduced graphene oxide as a cost-effective catalyst for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
	Allen Green, Rebecca Isseroff, Simon Lin, Likun Wang and Miriam Rafailovich, MRS Communications
	We are losing the climate change mitigation challenge; Is it too late to recover?
	Frank T. Princiotta, MRS Energy & Sustainability

Nano Focus

	Phase transitions in stable nanocrystalline alloys
	Arvind R. Kalidindi and Christopher A. Schuh, Journal of Materials Research

SCIENCE AS ART

Liquid Metal World Map
Dishit Parekh, North Carolina State University

Attached is an image shot via a DSLR camera with macro zoom lens. It shows the selective wetting phenomena of a gallium-based liquid metal on copper. The world map design was first patterned using a laser-writer on a fluorescent copper-clad circuit board from which fresh copper was then etched out using the conventional photolithography process.

A Second Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting.

Copyright for all Science as Art images belongs to the Materials Research Society. To request permission to re-use the images, please contact Anita Miller.

EDITOR'S CHOICE VIDEO

Gerd Ceder on materials computation
MRS Bulletin Material Matters

“Materials discovery seemed so accidental, I wanted to develop a method to discover materials much faster.”

MRS Bulletin’s Fiona C. Meldrum, from the University of Leeds, talks with Gerd Ceder, Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Ceder talks about materials discovery and how students should choose their area of research. Ceder is an MRS Fellow as well as a recipient of the MRS Medal (2009) for his work on batteries.

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