MRS in the News

May 11, 2019 | Albuquerque Journal

Hongyou Fan is the recipient of the Materials Research Society's Mid-Career Researcher's Award.   He has more than 20 patents to his name. 

May 8, 2019 | Notre Dame News

Mary E. Galvin has been elected to the Materials Research Society Fellows, an honor awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through their research accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the worldwide advancement of materials research.

May 7, 2019 | World Fertilizer Magazine

Haldor Topsoe Scientist, Stig Helveg, Receives Award

May 2, 2019 | Printed Electronics Now

Dai, leader of the Nanomaterials Chemistry group in ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Division, was cited “for significant and sustained contributions in pioneering and developing novel synthetic methods for functional carbon materials for energy applications.”

Apr 19, 2019 | Purdue University Materials Engineering News

Dr. Wang specializes in thin film epitaxy, nanocomposite designs and functional materials for high temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, multiferroics, spintronics, plasmonics and optics.

Apr 9, 2019 | FYI Bulletin

A 2016 report from the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research Society estimated that 400 U.S. research groups, mostly in the physical sciences, rely on liquid helium for experiments.

Apr 4, 2019 | Nanowerk News

Although previous research shows that metal nanoparticles have properties useful for various biomedical applications, many mysteries remain regarding how these tiny materials form, including the processes that generate size variations.

Mar 31, 2019 | UNM Newsroom

Hongyou Fan, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been selected for the 2019 Mid-Career Researcher Award by the Materials Research Society. 

Mar 28, 2019 | The UCSB Current

Professor Michael Chabinyc, chair of the Materials Department at the UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). 

Mar 21, 2019 | ACS Energy Letters

David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science and Bar-Ilan University, Israel, reflects on the development of the 2013 Rump Session on perovskites held at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting.

Feb 26, 2019 | Penn State News

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, an MRS Past President and the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Penn State, has been named a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Feb 21, 2019 | UTD News Center

Dr. Monica Jung de Andrade, a research scientist at the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS), an international professional organization

Feb 19, 2019 | UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Newsroom

Aaswath Raman, an assistant professor at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was among 126 outstanding young researchers selected to receive a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today.

Jan 3, 2019 | LIHerald.com

A trio of students from a couple of Five Towns high schools presented their research projects at the Materials Research Society meeting at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on Nov. 25 to 30.

Dec 12, 2018 | Science

Implanted electronics can steady hearts, calm tremors, and heal wounds—but at a cost. These machines are often large, obtrusive contraptions with batteries and wires, which require surgery to implant and sometimes need replacement. That's changing.

Dec 11, 2018 | Penn State News

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, and former MRS President, had a close, long-time working relationship with renowned materials scientist Robert E. Newnham.

Nov 26, 2018 | Physics World

At this week’s meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston, US, scientists from all over the world will be sizing up the latest equipment for materials characterization.

Nov 23, 2018 | Business Insider

Rigaku Corporation is presenting its diverse lines of X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and Raman spectroscopy instrumentation at the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Sunday November 25 to Friday, November 30, 2018.  

Nov 20, 2018 | Asian Scientist

Professor Hideo Hosono, director of the Materials Research Center for Elementary Strategy at the Tokyo Instiitute of Technology has been conferred the Von Hippel Award.

Nov 19, 2018 | Science & Technology Research News

Purdue University researchers have developed a shoe insole that could help make the healing process more portable for the 15 percent of Americans who develop ulcers as a result of diabetes, according to research published in MRS Communications.