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Call for Papers—2016 MRS Spring Meeting
The abstract submission period for the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting ends soon! Don’t delay; submit your abstract today. Visit www.mrs.org/spring-2016-technical-sessions for details.
Abstract Deadline: October 15, 2015 |
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Preregister and Save—2015 MRS Fall Meeting
Preregistration for the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston is now open at www.mrs.org/fall-2015-registration. Register by 5:00 pm (ET), November 13 to ensure discounted rates!
Preregistration Deadline: November 13, 2015 |
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Important Award Nomination Deadlines
Nominations for the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Awards are now being accepted. Nominate a colleague today for one of these prestigious MRS Awards.
Nomination Deadline: October 30, 2015 |
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ATTENTION INNOVATORS—Demonstrate Your Technology at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting!
Innovator demonstration applications for the 2016 iMatSci—Innovation in Materials Science are now being accepted. Present your technology in front of potential sources of venture capital while competing for cash prizes. Visit www.mrs.org/spring-2016-imatsci for more information.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2015 |
MATERIALS NEWS
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Materials in Focus
Sequential wrinkling process creates hierarchically structured materials
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Iridescent butterfly wings and sticky gecko feet both rely on hierarchical surface microstructures, which include microstructures at a variety of length scales as opposed to just one, to achieve their unique properties. Such fine surface-level patterning can determine whether a material is hydrophobic or hydrophilic, reflective or absorbent. By figuring out how to strategically implement these patterns to achieve a specific effect, scientists can design new materials with highly specialized properties. |
Water droplets launch themselves from Teflon-coated microfibers
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Water sprinkled on a Teflon-coated frying pan will bead up instead of spreading out. Apply this same Teflon coating to a thin wire, though, and water droplets might take things one step further, actually launching themselves off of the water-repelling surface. |
Realistic simulations reveal atomic-scale details responsible for superalloy properties
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A recent study of nickel-aluminum superalloys has given researchers their first glimpse of the atomic-scale details responsible for the phenomenal properties of superalloys. By performing molecular dynamics simulations based on realistic, experimentally informed structures, the researchers were able to observe the interactions of defects and precipitate phases in nickel-aluminum superalloys under stress. The results will help inform efforts to make increasingly high-temperature superalloys with less dependence on strategic elements like rhenium.
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In-situ stress measurements clarify direct growth of GaN on SiC
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Semiconductor electronics to control and convert electric power is a ubiquitous and essential element of systems as diverse as the electrical grid and transportation. But heat generation in high-power applications limits the use of silicon, the foundation of today’s technology. Switching to a wide-bandgap material like gallium nitride offers a way out of the heat problem, but finding a suitable substrate has proven difficult. Bulk single-crystal gallium nitride substrates are expensive, whereas silicon carbide is readily available but suffers from high lattice and thermal-expansion mismatches with gallium nitride. New in situ stress measurements during growth of gallium nitride on a silicon carbide substrate shed light on what happens during the growth as well as the obstacles to be overcome for this combination of materials to become a solution for power electronics. The results were reported in a recent issue of the Journal of Materials Research by researchers at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). |
People in Focus
Peidong Yang is named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow |
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Peidong Yang of the University of California-Berkeley has been named a MacArthur Fellow in recognition of his work in transforming the field of semiconductor nanowires and nanowire photonics and enabling wide-ranging practical applications. |
William Dichtel is named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow |
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William Dichtel of Cornell University has been named a MacArthur Fellow in recognition of his innovations in synthetic and supramolecular chemistry that hold promise for bringing a new class of nanostructured materials out of the laboratory and into daily use. |
Chad A. Mirkin receives inaugural National Academy of Sciences prize |
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Northwestern University scientist Chad A. Mirkin has been awarded the inaugural $400,000 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research from the National Academy of Sciences “for impressively integrating chemistry, materials science, molecular biology and biomedicine in the development of spherical nucleic acids that are widely used in the rapid and automated diagnosis of infectious diseases and many other human diseases—including cancers and cardiac disease—and in the detection of drug-resistant bacteria.” |
Interview with Marcelo Knobel (National Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Brazil) |
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Marcelo Knobel: We were pioneers in the study of giant magnetoresistance in granular systems and in the research of giant magnetoimpedance in amorphous and nanocrystalline wires and ribbons. But I have also been dedicating myself to scientific dissemination, being one of those responsible for the creation of the Exploratory Museum of Sciences of Unicamp. I was the coordinator of the NanoAventura project, which is an interactive and itinerary exhibit on nanoscience and nanotechnology for children and adolescents. |
Interview with Fernando Galembeck (Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory) |
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Fernando Galembeck: One of our goals is to explore renewable source materials to produce advanced materials. We have worked hard in order to make new things with materials derived from biomass, and the main focus is cellulose. You cannot process cellulose as you process polyethylene, for example. One of our goals has been to find ways to laminate cellulose, i.e., work it as closely as possible to the way we use to work synthetic polymers. |
Industry Focus
Aquion Energy’s low-cost saltwater battery
Could this be a small turning point for renewable energy? An aqueous hybrid ion battery roughly the size of a dishwasher or small refrigerator potentially stores enough solar or wind energy to power a single-family home completely off the grid in a region where sunlight is relatively plentiful.
Policy Focus
Will Malcolm Turnbull save Australian science?
On Sunday the new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, announced Christopher Pyne would lead a new Ministry for Industry, Innovation and Science. This focus on science is a promising start which, on the surface, seems to have given certain parts of the scientific community some hope.
For more science policy news, follow @MaterialsSciPol
OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY
Weighing the cost of big science
By definition, Big Science, like fusion and curing cancer, entails massive multi-decade endeavors that promise returns in the distant future, if ever. Only government can support that kind of basic R&D. But support is drying up as breakthroughs become rarer, and the equipment needed to achieve them gets bigger and more complex. More.
Nice to know you
When we first met, we did not sound like natural collaborators: a biologist who had recently arrived from a pharmacy group in the United Kingdom and a materials scientist from a nanomaterials group in Germany….But then we tried an often overlooked strategy: Share an office! More.
MEETINGS UPDATE
Critical Meeting Deadlines
2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 29 - December 4, 2015
Boston, Massachusetts
exhibit opportunities available |
PREREGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Preregistration Deadline—November 13
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8th International Conference of the African MRS
December 7-10, 2015
Accra, Ghana
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ONLINE REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN
Online Registration Deadline—November 20
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2016 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
March 28-April 1, 2016
Phoenix, Arizona
exhibit opportunities available |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Submission Deadline
October 15
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74th Device Research Conference (DRC 2016)
June 19-22, 2016
Newark, Delaware
exhibit opportunities available |
SAVE THE DATE
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58th Electronic Materials Conference
(58th EMC)
June 22-24, 2016
Newark, Delaware
exhibit opportunities available |
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American Conference on Neutron Scattering
(ACNS 2016)
July 10-14, 2016
Long Beach, California
exhibit opportunities available |
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18th International Conference on Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
(ICMOVPE-XVIII)
July 10-15, 2016
San Diego, California
exhibit opportunities available |
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5th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds
(MOF 2016)
September 11-15, 2016
Long Beach, California
exhibit opportunities available |
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International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors
(IWN 2016)
October 2-7, 2016
Orlando, Florida
exhibit opportunities available |
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PUBLICATIONS UPDATE
Critical Publications Deadlines
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JUST PUBLISHED
MRS Communications
September 2015, Volume 5, Issue 3 |
 
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Selected Theme Articles
Polymer nanocomposites with high energy storage densities
Yang Shen, Yuanhua Lin, and Q.M. Zhang
Greater than the sum: Synergy and emergent properties in nanoparticle–polymer composites
Millicent A. Firestone, Steven C. Hayden, and Dale L. Huber
When excitons and plasmons meet: Emerging function through synthesis and assembly
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth, Han Htoon, Andrei Piryatinski, Stephan Götzinger, and Vahid Sandoghdar
Book Reviews
Materials Kinetics Fundamentals: Principles, Processes, and Applications
Ryan O’Hayre
Reviewed by Joshua Hertz
Superconductivity: Basics and Applications to Magnets
R.G. Sharma
Reviewed by K. Kamala Bharathi
A Laboratory Course in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Gérrard Eddy and Jai Poinern
Reviewed by Sidney Cohen
Posterminaries
Why can’t we Google™ for the people we want to hire?
Merrilea Mayo
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From Volume 1698, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting, Symposium II/JJ/KK – Materials, Processes and Devices for Nanophotonics, Nonlinear Optics and Resonant Optics
Absorption Saturation and Two-Photon Absorption in Graphene
Weiqiang Chen, Yu Wang and Wei Ji
Nonlinear absorption in nanosystems of biological significance
Marek Samoc, Katarzyna Matczyszyn, Marcin Nyk, Joanna Olesiak-Banska, Marta Gordel, Piotr Hanczyc, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Janusz Szeremeta, Dominika Wawrzynczyk, Magdalena Waszkielewicz and Jan Zareba
From Volume 1699, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting,
Symposium LL – Transparent Electrodes
High Performance ITO Nanoparticles as Nanoink for Printing as a
Substitute Process of Sputtering
Atsushi Muramatsu, Kiyoshi Kanie, Takafumi Sasaki and Masafumi Nakaya
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SCIENCE AS ART
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Deep Ocean
by Ji-Young Kim, University of Michigan
Self-assembly of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) Nanoparticles on Copper Wire by Dielectrophoresis.
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the curved surface of Cu wire. Put ocean texture for the Cu wire surface, and used HUE, curve effect,level, and color balance effect with Photoshop.
A finalist in the Science as Art competition at the 2015 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
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Nanogirl Live Science Show! Blow things up, Blow things over, Blow your mind!
NanoGirl brings big science to the stage for her explosive live show!
Covering Bernoulli's principle, firing a massive air vortex cannon, holding fire in her hands and exploding thousands of ping pong balls, this show has science like you've never seen it before! |
CAREER CENTRAL
Partial listing of classified ads from the upcoming October 2015 issue of MRS Bulletin
Auburn University
Faculty Position, Materials Engineering
ETH Zürich
Professor or Assistant Professor, Computational Modeling of Nanoscale Devices
Georgia Institute of Technology
Faculty Positions, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
IST Austria
Assistant Professors and Professors, Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty Positions, Mechanical Engineering
National Taiwan University
Faculty Positions, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences
North Carolina State University
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Faculty Position, Physical Metallurgy
Princeton University
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor, Materials Department
University of Minnesota
Faculty Position, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Positions, Materials Science and Engineering
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
Scientist Positions
NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS
| Design of Experiments Software Provides Product, Process Efficiency |
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MKS Umetrics announced the release of MODDE Pro 11, a major upgrade to MODDE 10 that further develops unique probability contour plots, design space estimates and Proven Acceptable Range (PAR) communications. MODDE Pro 11 introduces optimized combinatorial designs for stability testing and other reduced multilevel combinatorial studies, and includes state-of-the-art functionality for creating designs, analyzing results and supporting the Quality by Design initiative. MODDE Pro 11 is ideal for Design of Experiments at all levels of development, including the development of robust analytical methods for product and process verification. Its intuitive graphical interfaces and detailed data visualization combine to enable effective and accurate decisions.
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| New Flow Microscopy Measurement System |
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TA Instruments introduced an all new system for advanced microscopy under flow. The Modular Microscope Accessory (MMA) for the Discovery Hybrid Rheometer enables simultaneous high resolution optical microscopy with precise control and measurement of flow. The system mounts directly to the rheometer, allowing for simple alignment, isolation from vibration, and quick interchange between the MMA and other rheometer accessories. A counter-rotating stage operated in conjunction with the rotating upper plate establishes a stagnation plane, which greatly aids qualitative and quantitative image analysis. The system provides temperature-controlled microscopy at magnifications as high as 100× and may be operated in bright field, fluorescent, or polarized light conditions.
[Contact: [email protected] or 302-427-1082] |
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