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	SUBMIT—New Late-Breaking Abstracts 2018 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit April 2-6, 2018  |  Phoenix, Arizona Contribute to 2018 MRS Spring Meeting symposia including new hot topics like artificial intelligence, quantum materials, and others. Abstract Submission Deadline 11:59 pm (ET), January 11, 2018 Learn more »
	Become an MRS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow! Participate in, and contribute to, the federal policymaking process, while learning firsthand about the intersection of science and policy. Apply for one, or two, Fellowship positions! Submission Deadline 11:59 pm (ET), January 5, 2018
	NOMINATE—MRS Communications Lecture Award! The Lecture Award recognizes excellence in materials research through work published in MRS Communications. The senior author of the chosen outstanding paper will be invited to present a lecture about the related research at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit.   Nomination Deadline 11:59 pm (ET), January 19, 2018 Submission Procedure »

MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

New textile goes from warm to cool with a flip
	This dual-mode fabric is composed of a bilayer emitter embedded inside an infrared-transparent nanoporous polyethylene layer.
Highly adhesive, elastic surgical sealant engineered from human protein
	The sealant is light-activated, nontoxic, and degrades in the body over time.
New mechanism for fragmenting the magnetic moment in spin ice
	In a sample of Ho2Ir2O7, at <2 K, neutron scattering measurements displayed signature characteristics of magnetic fragmentation in the material.
High performing assay using antibody-conjugated DNA nanoswitches detects proteins
	This nanoswitch-linked immunosorbent assay shows advantages over the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Efficient colored solar modules obtained using integrated nanoscatterers
	Color arises from integrated Si-based cylindrical nanoscatterers with dimensions of the order of optical wavelengths and thus cause Mie scattering.
Unique x-ray scattering approach provides insight into high-temperature strength of alloys
	The new method relies on high-energy x-ray diffraction microscopy to assess the strengths of slip systems in various Ti alloys at high temperatures.

Policy Focus

US government works toward grid modernization
Through research that has enabled the deployment of a number of different clean distributed energy resource technologies and the development of materials-based energy efficiency solutions, materials scientists have inadvertently raised new challenges for grid modernization. 


OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

Light-emitting diodes: A case study in engineering research
Solid-state lighting has staggering implications for the world’s energy and resource use, since artificial lighting consumes 16% of the world’s electricity. LED lamps save resources and labor because they last up to 100,000 hours, compared to 1000 hours for incandescent bulbs and 10,000 hours for fluorescent lights.


MEETINGS UPDATE

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

JUST PUBLISHED

	Effect of Severe Plastic Deformation on Tensile and Fatigue Properties of Fine-grained Magnesium Alloy ZK60
	Alexei Vinogradov, Journal of Materials Research
	Ex- and in-situ investigations on the role of persistent slip bands and grain boundaries in fatigue crack initiation
	Heinz Werner Höppel, Philip Goik, Christian Krechel and Mathias Göken, Journal of Materials Research
	Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of a 5052 Al alloy with gradient structures
	Yusheng Li, Lingzhen Li, Jinfeng Nie, Yang Cao, Yonghao Zhao and Yuntian Zhu, Journal of Materials Research
	Physical Physics – Learning and Assessing Light Concepts in a novel way
	Yvonne Kavanagh and Damien Raftery, MRS Advances
	Wear Resistance under Non-Lubricated Condition of Nb-Containing TWIP Steel
	V.H. Mercado, I. Mejía, Y. Salinas-Escutia and A. Bedolla-Jacuinde, MRS Advances

Bio Focus

	Chemical modifications and reactions in DNA nanostructures
	Kurt V. Gothelf, MRS Bulletin
	DNA nanotechnology: A foundation for programmable nanoscale materials
	Mark Bathe and Paul W.K. Rothemund, MRS Bulletin
	Enzyme-functionalized DNA nanostructures as tools for organizing and controlling enzymatic reactions
	Guido Grossi, Andreas Jaekel, Ebbe Sloth Andersen, and Barbara Saccà, MRS Bulletin
	Gelatin-based hydrogels for biomedical applications
	Panupong Jaipan, Alexander Nguyen and Roger J. Narayan, MRS Communications
	Polymeric scaffolds for three-dimensional culture of nerve cells: a model of peripheral nerve regeneration
	Radamés Ayala-Caminero, Luis Pinzón-Herrera, Carol A. Rivera Martinez  and Jorge Almodovar, MRS Communications
	Practical aspects of structural and dynamic DNA nanotechnology
	Pengfei Wang, Gourab Chatterjee, Hao Yan, Thomas H. LaBean, Andrew J. Turberfield, Carlos E. Castro, Georg Seelig, and Yonggang Ke, MRS Bulletin
	Self-organizing materials built with DNA
	Friedrich C. Simmel and Rebecca Schulman, MRS Bulletin
	Synthesis of Cotton Fibers Impregnated with Bactericidal Hydrotalcites to be used in Medical Textile Supplies
	Ana María León-Vallejo, Geolar Fetter, Álvaro Sampieri and Efraín Rubio-Rosas, MRS Advances
	Three-dimensional molecular and nanoparticle crystallization by DNA nanotechnology
	Nadrian C. Seeman and Oleg Gang, MRS Bulletin

Energy Focus

	Perspectives on the photoelectrochemical storage of solar energy
	Roel van de Krol and Bruce A. Parkinson, MRS Energy and Sustainability

SCIENCE AS ART

My Grandma's Knitting Box
Isabel Gessner, University of Cologne

Thin films of crystalline V₂O₃ consisting of nanosheets with a flower-like morphology.
Co-author: David Graf

A First Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2017 MRS Fall 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

How materials research is delivering cell biology in 3D
MRS Communications

Owens et al. "A (bio) materials approach to three-dimensional cell biology."
MRS Communications (2017). doi: 10.1557/mrc.2017.102

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

High-Force DMA and Fatigue Instrument
	The new ElectroForce® DMA 3200 from TA Instruments combines industry-leading fatigue and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) technologies into a single mechanical test platform with unparalleled performance. Read more »
Polyvalent Hyperspectral Imager
	The Hiden ExQ quantitative gas analyzer is a new multi-featured and compact mass spectrometer system providing continuous on-line analysis of dynamic gas streams at pressures from sub-atmospheric up to 30 bar. Read more »

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