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2015 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 6-10, 2015 | San Francisco, California
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FREE Webinar: 3D Printing of Biomaterials
Wednesday, February 25 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm (ET)
This webinar expands on research that will be featured in the February 2015 Issue of MRS Bulletin and will be hosted by Guest Editor Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University.
Attendance for this and all MRS OnDemand Webinars is FREE, but advance registration is required. |
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Call for Papers—JMR Focus Issue
October 2015 Issue
Nitrides and Oxynitride Materials
Submission Deadline—February 15, 2015
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Materials in Focus
Mystery of graphene oxide membrane’s stability in water solved
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For several years, strong, lightweight graphene oxide membranes have been extensively investigated. Such membranes are composed of graphene oxide sheets that become negatively charged in water. Because of this, when in water, the sheets should be repelled apart. Instead, the submerged membranes can stay in one piece, even for weeks. Now researchers have discovered why. |
Neural implant mimics mechanical properties of neural tissue
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Neural implants are important and useful for studying the nervous system and even help treat certain neurological issues. However, while deformable, today’s implants are still stiff relative to neural tissue, making them unsuitable for long-term use. Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have now designed a soft neural implant that mimics the shape and elasticity of dura mater, the protective membrane of the brain and spinal cord. |
Bio Focus: Building synthetic organelles from the gene up
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Membrane-bound compartments, such as lipid micelles, are essential cellular structures that have endured and diversified across millennia following their probable key role in the origin of life. Recently, micelles and related types of micro-compartments (e.g., emulsions) have been gaining attention as platforms that can enable new chemical, biological, and materials technologies. The use of both micro- and nano-compartments has been demonstrated for a wide range of applications, including drug delivery, genetic screening, and nanomaterial synthesis. |
Energy Focus: Insulator triggered charge balance for high-performance QLEDs
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Vacuum deposition is the primary technique currently employed by industry for producing commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as their performance is superior to that of solution-processed LEDs. However, a team of scientists from Zhejiang University have recently taken an important step forward in the development of solution-processed LEDs. The research team achieved this by using nonblinking quantum dots (QDs) with a photoluminescence quantum yield above 90%. |
Industry Focus
Cotton cars to bring down costs of composites
Built in East Germany, the Trabant 601 was notorious for its many faults – not the least of which was a body made out of Duroplast, a hard plastic made of cotton waste and phenol resins that led those in the West to describe the car as being made of cardboard. However, it now looks as if the Trabant is getting the last laugh as scientists look at ways of making cars out of cotton and other botanical fibers formed into a new class of hybrid composites.
Policy Focus
Yucca Mountain, deemed safe, still faces long road ahead
Almost four years after the Obama administration shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project, a new report released in October 2014 by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has put Yucca Mountain in the news again. The report is Volume 3 of the five-volume safety evaluation report required for the NRC’s license application review for the geological repository. This volume, which addresses safety after permanent closure, concludes that the repository will meet regulatory requirements after it is permanently closed.
OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY
Profiles in Materials Science: Shenda Baker
Shenda Baker’s love of sharing science with others has led her down a non-traditional career path, with many rewarding steps along the way. Learn about her journey from university professor, to chair of the development team of the highly successful Strange Matter exhibit and finally leading her own start-up company. More.
Strange Matter Exhibition Opens – January 31, 2015
Discovery Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
January 31, 2015-May 10, 2015
The clothing of the future is dipped in silver
Engineers at Stanford University have figured out how to coat clothing in a meshwork of silver nanowire so that it not only insulates better than regular clothes but also generates its own heat. More.
NISE Network - Join the next Brown-Bag conversation
The Science Behind NanoDays 2015 - Part 1
Wednesday, February 28, 2015
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (ET)
Brown-Bag conversations are free online professional development opportunities that allow educators and scientists to share and learn from each other. Sign up to join the conversation.
How 3D printing can revolutionize Australian manufacturing
Australia must grab this moment, write Gordon Wallace and Stephen Beirne of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at the University of Wollongong. More.
MEETINGS UPDATE
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Journal of Materials Research
January 2015, Volume 30, Issue 2
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From Volume 1651, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium KK – Dislocation Plasticity:
Mechanics and Dislocation Structures at the Micro-Scale: Insights on Dislocation Multiplication Mechanisms from Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Simulations
D. Weygand
From Volume 1654, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium NN – Strategies and Techniques to Accelerate Inorganic Materials Innovation
Enabling Solar Fuels Technology With High Throughput Experimentation
J. M. Gregoire, J. A. Haber, S. Mitrovic, C. Xiang, S. Suram, P. F. Newhouse, E. Soedarmadji, M. Marcin, K. Kan, D. Guevarra, R. Jones, N. Becerra, E. W. Cornell and J. Jin |
SCIENCE AS ART
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The Color of Self Healing
by Thu Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SEM image of electrospun core-shell fibers containing self-healing agents deposited on steel
A Finalist in the Science as Art competition at the 2014 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
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University of Rochester
Using Lasers to Create Super-hydrophobic Materials
Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic, materials without the need for temporary coatings. |
CAREER CENTRAL
Partial listing of classified ads from the upcoming February 2015 issue of MRS Bulletin
City University of Hong Kong
Faculty Positions, Department of Physics and Materials Science
ETH Zurich
Professor, Materials Engineering/Active Materials
Northwestern University
Lecturer, Material Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Senior Research Associate, Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental (NUANCE) Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Liane B. Russell Fellowship
Pennsylvania State University
Nanotechnology Faculty Position, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Nanoscale Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Senior Materials Engineer, Golisano Institute for Sustainability
University of California, Irvine
Surface Science Facility Manager, Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Assistant Professor, Electron Microscopy
University of Utah
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Experimental/Theoretical Materials Research
University of Washington
Assistant or Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Positions, School of Materials Science and Engineering
NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS
Explosion Proof LED Light with Magnetic Mounting Capabilities |
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Larson Electronics, a manufacturer and supplier of explosion proof lighting equipment, has announced the release of a new pedestal mount LED light designed for high output and versatile operation. Featuring a powerful 150 watt LED lamp assembly and a simple aluminum base stand with magnetic mount capabilities, this light effectively illuminates 9,500 square feet of work area with 12,500 lumens of light output. The EPL-MB-150LED-250 magnetic mount explosion proof LED light provides operators with a powerful hazardous location suitable lighting solution that can be mounted to almost any metallic surface, or utilized as a standalone pedestal light.
[Contact: [email protected] or 214-616-6180] |
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Ultra Low Temperature Rack for Tissue Storage Tubes |
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Drawing on over 30 years’ experience of supplying traceable sample storage solutions to research centers and laboratory facilities around the world, Micronic has launched a new ultra-low temperature rack for tissue tube storage. Precision manufactured in a Class 7 cleanroom production facility, the new Micronic 24-2 rack accommodates twenty-four 3.00ml tissue storage tubes in an automation compatible American National Standards Institute/Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (ANSI/SLAS) dimensional footprint. The sturdy design of the new Micronic 24-2 rack ensures minimal deformation due to temperature changes making it ideal for long term use in automated ultra-low temperature tissue storage facilities.
[Contact: [email protected] or 484-480-3372] |
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