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FREE Access to MRS Articles by Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Mildred Dresselhaus!

Long-time MRS member and active volunteer Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States. In celebration of Dresselhaus and her tremendous achievements, articles from the MRS Journals Collection, authored by or about Dresselhaus, are FREE for a limited time.

Visit journals.cambridge.org/dresselhaus for details.

Call for Proposals—2016 JMR Focus Issues

Are you knowledgeable about a materials science topic that is currently seeing a lot of groundbreaking research? Consider proposing a Journal of Materials Research Focus Issue on that topic! Proposals are being accepted for JMR Focus Issues to be published in 2016.

Submission Deadline—December 15, 2014

Become an MRS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow!

Participate in, and contribute to, the federal policymaking process, while learning firsthand about the intersection of science and policy. Apply for one of two Fellowship positions!

Submission Deadline—January 2, 2015

MATERIALS NEWS


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Materials in Focus

MXene Nanocomposites are Flexible, Conductive, and Hydrophilic

In 2011, Drexel University materials scientists discovered a new family of two-dimensional (2D) materials. They made the materials by immersing MAX phase powders—layered hexagonal carbides and nitrides—in hydrofluoric acid, which yielded 2D transition metal carbides and carbon nitrides. More

DNA Molds Form Custom-Shaped Nanoparticles

Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a new, simple method to quickly cast nanoparticles with user-specified three-dimensional (3D) shapes using DNA molds fashioned by computer-aided design (CAD). More

Targeted drug delivery, again and again

A major aim in biomaterials research is to develop improved strategies for delivering therapeutic drugs to injury- and disease-affected tissues in an efficient, effective, and safe manner. Now researchers have developed a way to use drug-carrying polymer strands (or drug payloads) that are introduced into the bloodstream in a relatively noninvasive manner, such as through intravenous injection. More

Gradient microstructures alleviate pitfalls of nano-grained metals

A solution to the problem of tensile brittleness in metals restructured through grain refinement has been reported by K. Lu of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science. Lu studied gradient microstructures in copper to resolve the problem of increased tensile brittleness that accompanies nano-grained metals. More

Long-Qing Chen Awarded 2014 Materials Theory Award

The Materials Research Society has named Long-Qing Chen, The Pennsylvania State University, the recipient of its Materials Theory Award for his "pioneering work in the development of the phase-field method and its applications in the computational modeling of mesoscale structures and their dynamics in inhomogeneous materials." More

Materials researchers honored as Top Global Thinkers for 2014

This year, materials researchers are among the innovators Foreign Policy's top 100 Leading Global Thinkers. Jennifer Lewis of Harvard University is recognized for showing how three-dimensional printing can shape the future. Florent Boudoire, Artur Braun, Edwin Constable, and Jakob Heier of Empa and Rita Toth of the University of Basel together are recognized for advancing a new method for hydrogen-fuel production. More

Industry Focus

A Battery to Prop Up Renewable Power Hits the Market

A new kind of battery that stores energy from solar and wind power cheaply and cleanly has hit the market. It is by far the cheapest of a new generation of large, long-lived batteries that could make it possible to rely heavily on intermittent, renewable energy sources. Aquion Energy, a company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, recently delivered the first of its batteries to operators of small power grids, or “microgrids,” that can operate independently of the centralized grid. More

AIXTRON Receives Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL Development

AIXTRON SE, a worldwide provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, received the “Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL Development” from the International SSL Alliance (ISA) in the context of this years’ China SSL. The ISA jury recognized AIXTRON for its role in providing key foundations for the initiation and growth of the global Solid State Lighting (SSL) industry. More

CORPORATE PARTNER—Product News

Controlled Environments for Flexible Hall Measurement – Learn More at MRS Booth 701

Lake Shore Cryotronics will discuss non-destructive testing of wafer-scale materials as a function of temperature and field at MRS Fall. Hall measurement is invaluable to materials and device characterization, but sample prep can be cumbersome. A controlled, vacuum environment, such as that of Lake Shore’s new HMS probe station platform, enables testing of materials that are reactive to air or require initial warming to drive out moisture. In addition, multiple structures can be sampled on a wafer, including those built on substrates, with no dicing required. Visit MRS Fall booth 701 or read Lake Shore’s white paper for more info.

The Corporate Partner Program supports the Materials Research Society Foundation^®.

MEETINGS UPDATE

Featured Events at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting

Several special events will be featured at the upcoming MRS Meeting in Boston. Below are just a few highlights. For a list of all Meeting activities, visit www.mrs.org/fall-2014-activities-events.

Professional Development Workshop: Strategic Negotiation—Alliances and Tactics
Sunday, November 30 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm (ET)

Attendance is free, but advance sign up is required by November 28.

Fun Science Stuff in The Hub
Monday, December 1 – Thursday, December 4

Join us in The Hub (Hynes, Level 2, Hall D) each evening at 5:10 pm for fun science presentations, including The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show; The New Future of Computing ... with Quantum Materials; and Energy and Chemistry—Now and Forever!

Strange Matter Green Earth Prototypes
Tuesday, December 2 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm (ET)

Have fun with cutting-edge technologies, and help guide the development of the latest MRS education outreach initiative, Strange Matter Green Earth. Several science exhibit prototypes will be available to interact with, including augmented and virtual reality techniques using Oculus Rift.

2014 MRS Fall Meeting Exhibit
Tuesday, December 2 – Thursday, December 4

Talk directly with over 250 international exhibitors from all sectors of the global materials science and engineering communities. And while you're in the Exhibit Hall, be sure to check out the activities happening in materials² throughout the week, including the ever-popular Science as Art Competition, caricature sketches, and the new MRS International Biergarten.

Critical Meeting Deadlines

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MRS Communications

Research Letter:

Graphene oxide film as a template for the creation of three-dimensional lamellar metal oxides and reduced graphene oxide/metal oxide hybrids
Xiguang Gao, Mahyar Mazloumi, Louis Cheung and Xiaowu (Shirley) Tang

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MRS Bulletin
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Biological interactions of oxide nanoparticles: The good and the evil
November 2014
Lina Ghibelli and Sanjay Mathur, Guest Editors

Book Reviews
Advanced materials for joint implants
Giuseppe Pezzotti

Computational materials science: Surfaces, interfaces, crystallization
A.M. Ovrutsky, A.S. Prokhoda, and M.S. Rasshchupkyna

Advanced materials science and engineering of carbon
Michio Inagaki, Feiyu Kang, Masahiro Toyoda, and Hidetaka Konno

Posterminaries
In praise of a kind of materialism
Valentina Naglieri

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Journal of Materials Research
November 2014, Volume 29, Issue 21

A selection of papers:

Compressive strain-induced metal–insulator transition in orthorhombic SrIrO3 thin films
John H. Gruenewald, John Nichols, Jasminka Terzic, Gang Cao, Joseph W. Brill, and Sung S.Ambrose Seo

A critical examination of the paradox of strength and ductility in ultrafine-grained metals
Tarang Mungole, Praveen Kumar, Megumi Kawasaki, and Terence G. Langdon

Microstructure and mechanical properties of fiber laser welded joints of ultrahigh-strength steel 22MnB5 and dual-phase steels
Jin Jia, Shang-Lei Yang, Wei-Yuan Ni, and Jian-Ying Bai

MRS Online Proceedings Library

Visit the MRS Online Proceedings Library and read about the latest research presented at MRS Meetings. Access is free to MRS members.

From Volume 1628, 2013 Fall Meeting, Symposium M – Large-Area Processing and Patterning for Active Optical and Electronic Devices:

Fabrication of Organic Thin Film Transistor Arrays on Plastic and Paper Substrate for Flexible Display Application
Y. Fujisaki, Y. Nakajima, M. Nakata, H. Tsuji, and T. Yamamoto

From Volume 1631, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium P – Emergent Electron Transport Properties at Complex Oxide Interfaces:

Characterization and Modeling of the Conduction and Switching Mechanisms of HfOx Based RRAM
Shimeng Yu and H.-S. Philip Wong

SCIENCE AS ART

Neon Nanowires
by Maria Lukatskaya

SEM image of the overgrown chromium nanowires in/on porous anodic alumina template.

A Finalist in the Science as Art competition at the 2014 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

TED2012
Donald Sadoway —The Missing Link to Renewable Energy

Donald Sadoway discusses the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. He is the keynote speaker for the 8th Technology Innovation Forum at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting.

CAREER CENTRAL

Partial listing of classified ads from the upcoming December 2014 issue of MRS Bulletin

Auburn University
Faculty Position, Materials Engineering

Beihang University
Professor and Associate Professor, Clean Energy Systems and Materials

Dartmouth College
Faculty Position, Energy-Related Materials

National Taiwan University
Faculty Positions, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences

Northwestern Polytechnical University
Faculty Positions, School of Materials Science and Engineering

The National Academies
Jefferson Science Fellowship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Positions, Materials Science and Engineering

University of North Texas
Department Chair, Materials Science & Engineering

University of South Florida
Faculty Positions, Experimental Materials Science

University of Southern California
Department Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

University of Washington
Assistant Professor, Materials Science Engineering & Mechanical Engineering

Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Faculty Position, Materials Science and Engineering

Xi'an Jiaotong University
Faculty Positions, School of Materials Science and Engineering

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

Intense Light Source Enhances High Speed Visualization

Specialised Imaging, working in conjunction with Cavitar, announces the SI LUX640 laser illumination system—a new innovation to improve the accuracy and sensitivity of high-speed video, ultra high-speed framing camera, Schleiren imaging and Shadowgraph systems. The SI-LUX640 is based upon proprietary pulsed high-power diode laser illumination technology, which can illuminate an object up to a million times a second and even objects and processes that are hard to access.
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Deep-cooled OEM Spectroscopy Camera

HORIBA Scientific launched their new Syncerity back-illuminated, deep-cooled CCD camera with an NIR-enhanced 2048x70 sensor. Ideal for Raman instrumentation, the Syncerity is a research grade spectroscopy camera that combines affordability, performance and versatility for OEM, as well as research applications. Ruggedized connectors ensure overall system integrity in industrial environments, and its all metal sealed technology provides a permanent vacuum which comes with a lifetime maintenance-free warranty.
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