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Materials News podcast by MRS Bulletin provides breakthrough news & interviews with researchers on hot topics including biomaterials, quantum materials, artificial intelligence, sustainability, perovskites, and robotics. Produced by the Materials Research Society.

  • Nanocube self-assembly pathways uncovered

    Mar 25, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 7, Episode 6

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Xingchen Ye of Indiana University about his research group’s studies on the fundamental behavior of colloidal materials.

  • Triboelectric nanogenerator powered by wind-driven leaf motion

    Mar 25, 2025 | 6 minutes | Season 7, Episode 5

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Fabian Meder from the Italian Institute of Technology about his research group’s device that makes use of wind-driven plant leaf motion to generate electricity.

  • Researchers pinpoint AI/ML training set to achieve accurate predictions

    Mar 25, 2025 | 4 minutes | Season 7, Episode 4

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Bowen Deng, a graduate student at the University of California, about their work on increasing the accuracy of artificial intelligence/machine learning materials prediction models.

  • Surface defects control bulk properties of lead halide perovskites

    Mar 24, 2025 | 4 minutes | Season 7, Episode 3

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews David Cahen from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, about the impact surface defects have on bulk properties, specifically in the case of lead halide perovskites.

  • Compression activates optical tuning in smart window

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 7, Episode 2

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Gwangmin Bae of Korea University about his work with colleagues on the design of a new smart window system that utilizes compression.

  • Carbon fiber-based structural battery serves multiple functions

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 7, Episode 1

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Leif Asp of Chalmers University of Technology about his group’s development of an all-carbon fiber-based structural battery.

  • Frontal polymerization controls materials properties

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 23

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nancy Sottos, and Justine Paul, about their work with frontal polymerization.

  • Additive manufacturing enhances toughness in formable cementitious materials

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 22

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Reza Moini of Princeton University about his group’s development of an enhanced additive manufacturing technique to fabricate cementitious materials with excellent fracture toughness.

  • Hierarchical ceramics resist crack propagation

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 21

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews postdoctoral research fellow Rohit Pratyush Behera and Prof. Hortense Le Ferrand of Nanyang Technological University about their design of a strong and tough ceramic that absorbs energy.

  • Amino-silane treatment extends perovskite performance

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 20

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Yen-Hung Lin of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology about his work to eliminate defects in perovskite solar cells.

  • 4D-STEM measures thermal properties of 2D materials

    Mar 24, 2025 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 19

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Michael Pettes, deputy group leader and staff scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in Los Alamos National laboratory.

  • Glassy gels exhibit numerous mechanical properties

    Aug 16, 2024 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 18

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Michael Dickey of North Carolina State University about the discovery and mechanical properties of glassy gels.

  • Metamaterial tailors thermal emission

    Aug 12, 2024 | 3 minutes | Season 6, Episode 17

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Coskun Kocabas from The University of Manchester in the UK about his development of a metamaterial that can tailor thermal emission.

  • Researchers fabricate monolithic selenium/silicon tandem solar cell

    Aug 6, 2024 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 16

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Rasmus Neilsen from the Technical University of Denmark about his fabrication of a monolithic selenium/silicon tandem solar cell.

  • Torsional force microscopy reveals the moiré superlattices

    Jun 25, 2024 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 15

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Mihir Pendharkar of Stanford University about characterizing electronic properties of twistronics materials.

  • Mixed-method approach characterizes nanovoids in polymer films

    Jun 18, 2024 | 6 minutes | Season 6, Episode 14

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Falon Kalutantirige from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Ying Li from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • Computational model shows 3D metamaterial that exhibits magnetoelectric effect

    Jun 13, 2024 | 6 minutes | Season 6, Episode 13

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Alexandre Dmitriev from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden about his group’s computational model of a three-dimensional metamaterial exhibiting a magnetoelectric effect when exposed to light.

  • New paradigm established for additive manufacturing in field of bioelectronics

    Apr 20, 2024 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 12

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Antonio Dominguez-Alfaro from the University of Cambridge, UK about the development of a single-step manufacturing approach for a multimaterial 3D-printing method. The research team created...

  • Chemomechanical approach to surface modification attains high single-photon purity

    Apr 9, 2024 | 7 minutes | Season 6, Episode 11

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Elizabeth Wilson interviews postdoctoral researcher M. Iqbal Bakti Utama of Northwestern University about a method allowing single photon production without defect. Aryl diazonium chemistry has been used in the...

  • Achiral liquid crystal breaks mirror symmetry

    Apr 4, 2024 | 5 minutes | Season 6, Episode 10

    In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Irmgard Bischofberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about her investigation of how chirality emerges in nature. She uses liquid crystal molecules of disodium chromoglycate...

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