IN FOCUS

	CALL FOR PAPERS—2017 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit November 26-December 1, 2017  |  Boston, Massachusetts Submit your abstract before the June 15 deadline. Join the conversation—Follow #F17MRS on Twitter!
	CALL FOR NOMINATIONS—MRS Awards Learn more about the MRS Awards and how you can nominate a colleague at www.mrs.org/awards. Nominate a Colleague! Deadline—August 1, 2017
	ATTENTION INNOVATORS—Demonstrate Your Technology at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting Display your innovations and interact with industry and R&D leaders and early-stage investors at the iMatSci Innovator Showcase. Accelerate the adoption of your materials technologies for real-world applications. Apply beginning June 1! Deadline—August 1, 2017

MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

Easy, environmentally-friendly method to unearth rare earth elements
	Rare earth elements are extracted from an aqueous solution using magnetic silica-iron nanoparticles.
Novel 3D-printed method produces metallic pentamode metamaterials
	A 3D-printed pentamode mechanical metamaterial made with a biocompatible Ti-6Al-4V alloy may lead to biomedical applications.
Hot graphene-wrapped sponges quickly absorb heavy crude oil from water
	One kg of the heated sponge could remove 2,320 kg of oil per hour, about 30 times faster than the non-heated material.

Industry Focus

New Bioprinter Makes It Easier to Fabricate 3D Flesh and Bone
This relatively affordable bioprinter, the BioBot 2, aims to take tissue engineering to the next level.

Policy Focus

Materials Minute: Trump budget release 2
After the release of the “skinny” budget, the Administration releases its full budget proposal for FY18.

Multi-society organizations voice concern over US State Department’s proposed supplemental questions for US visa applicants
Science organizations call for balance between national security and legitimate travel to the US.



OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

SESAME synchrotron opens for users
Middle East facility overcomes political and funding challenges.


MEETINGS UPDATE

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

JUST PUBLISHED

	In situ characterization methods for evaluating microstructure formation and drying kinetics of solution-processed organic bulk-heterojunction films
	Nusret Sena Güldal, Thaer Kassar, Marvin Berlinghof, Nusret Sena Güldal, Thaer Kassar, Marvin Berlinghof, Tobias Unruh, Christoph J. Brabec, Journal of Materials Research
	Multiferroics: Past, present, and future
	Nicola A. Spaldin, MRS Bulletin
	Teaching Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) in the Pre-College Classroom as a Vehicle for NGSS Implementation
	Nicole Granucci, Carol Jenkins, Melanie Bauer, Ashley L. Gard, Bryn Pinkerton and Christine Broadbridge, MRS Advances
	The hydrobaric effect on cathodically deposited titanium dioxide photocatalyst
	Tso-Fu Mark Chang, Wei-Hao Lin, Chun-Yi Chen, Yung-Jung Hsu and Masato Sone, MRS Communications
	Turning High School Students into MRS Authors and Presenters: The Magic of the Garcia Summer Scholars Program
	Rebecca Isseroff, Julia Budassi and Miriam Rafailovich, MRS Advances

Bio Focus

	Assessing plant uptake and transport mechanisms of engineered nanomaterials from soil
	Illya A. Medina-Velo, Jose R. Peralta-Videa, Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey, MRS Bulletin
	Paper-Based Plasmonic Surface for Chemical Biosensing by the Attenuated Total Reflection Method
	Nobuko Fukuda, Srimongkon Tithimanan, Hirobumi Ushijima and Noritaka Yamamoto, MRS Advances
	Supramolecular assemblies of lignin into nano- and microparticles
	Mariko Ago, Blaise L. Tardy, Ling Wang, Jiaqi Guo, Alexey Khakalo, Orlando J. Rojas, MRS Bulletin

Energy Focus

	Engineering solar cells based on correlative X-ray microscopy
	Michael Stuckelberger, Bradley West, Tara Nietzold, Barry Lai, Jörg M. Maser, Volker Rose and Mariana I. Bertoni, Journal of Materials Research
	Structure formation and evolution in semiconductor films for perovskite and organic photovoltaics
	Andrew J. Pearson, Journal of Materials Research

Nano Focus

	Chemically controlled surface compositions of Ag–Pt octahedral catalysts
	Yung-Tin Pan, Lingqing Yan and Hong Yang, MRS Communications
	Controlling the nanoscale morphology and structure of the ZnO/MnO2 system for efficient transparent supercapacitors
	M.A. Borysiewicz, M. Wzorek, M. Ekielski, J. Kaczmarski and T. Wojciechowski, MRS Communications

SCIENCE AS ART

Jungle after the storm Fernando Soto, University of California, San Diego Copper microstructures synthesized by template electrodeposition. A First 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

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

Analytical Protein Aggregate Separation without a Column
	The new temperature controlled AF2000 MALS Flow Field-Flow Fractionation system from Postnova Analytics provides unmatched separation, characterization and fractionation of biopharmaceutical proteins. Read more »
Digital Microscope Expands and Improves Analysis
	The latest VHX Digital Microscope from KEYENCE Corporation provides new inspection and analysis features, including ISO contamination measurement and ASTM-compliant grain analysis. Read more »

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