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Materials in Focus
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Nanotube Forests Can Harvest Water from the Air

Nanotubes coated with a hydrophilic polymer on one end pull moisture from the air, while a hydrophobic coating on the other end prevents the water from escaping from the opposite side. More

Deep Data Analysis Unravels Complex Conductive Behaviors

Using novel statistical analysis techniques on multidimensional data sets, researchers can distinguish individual electrical conductivity behaviors in a tubular dual-oxide nanocomposite, including memristive behavior at interfaces that could lead to valuable switching applications at the nanoscale. More

New Material Could Improve Carbon Capture of Natural Gas

Researchers have developed a new recyclable carbon-based material that can trap about eight times more CO₂ by weight than aqueous amines. What's more, the material polymerizes CO₂ using the pressure and temperatures present at the wellhead. More

Industry Focus

Quantachrome Instruments Announces Their Newest Vapor Sorption Analyzer

Quantachrome announces the release of the Vstar™ vapor sorption analyzer, the latest in precision sorption analyzers. The Vstar™ provides a fast, accurate, and reliable means of obtaining water sorption isotherms on a wide variety of materials, but it doesn’t stop there. The Vstar™ also can measure adsorption isotherms of a variety of organic vapors, providing insight into the materials’ resistance to organic vapors, viability as an adsorbent for these vapors in storage or sequestration applications, and information on the chemical properties of these materials. More

MEETINGS UPDATE

Science as Art

ErMnO₃ Domains 
by Manfred Fiebig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Piezoresponse force microscopy image of the ferroelectric domain structure of hexagonal ErMnO₃. Dark/bright areas correspond to opposite out-of-plane polarization directions.

A Finalist in the Science as Art competition at the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting.

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JUST PUBLISHED

Research Letters:
Mechanical annealing of Cu–Si nanowires during high-cycle fatigue
Charlotte Ensslen, Oliver Kraft, Reiner Mönig, Jin Xu, Guang-Ping Zhang and Reinhard Schneider

Doping of TiO₂ nanopowders with vanadium for the reduction of its band gap reaching the visible light spectrum region
Majid Ahmadi and Maxime J-F. Guinel




Dielectric behavior related to TiO_x phase change to TiO₂ in TiO_x/Al₂O₃ nanolaminate thin films
Geunhee Lee, Ram S. Katiyar, Bo-Kuai Lai, Charudatta Phatak and Orlando Auciello

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MRS Bulletin

CVD Diamond—Research, Applications, and Challenges
June 2014
Includes Energy Quarterly section

Guest Editors: Robert J. Nemanich, Arizona State University, USA; John A. Carlisle, Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc., USA; Atsushi Hirata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; and Ken Haenen, Hasselt University, Belgium.

CVD diamond—Research, applications, and challenges
Robert J. Nemanich, John A. Carlisle, Atsushi Hirata, Ken Haenen

Doping and interface of homoepitaxial diamond for electronic applications
Satoshi Yamasaki, Etienne Gheeraert and Yasuo Koide

Large-area high-quality single crystal diamond
Matthias Schreck, Jes Asmussen, Shinichi Shikata, Jean-Charles Arnault and Naoji Fujimori

MEMS/NEMS based on mono-, nano-, and ultrananocrystalline diamond films
Anirudha V. Sumant, Orlando Auciello, Meiyong Liao and Oliver A. Williams

Surface functionalization and biological applications of CVD diamond
Sabine Szunerits, Christoph E. Nebel and Robert J. Hamers

Diamond electrodes: Diversity and maturity
Yasuaki Einaga, John S. Foord and Greg M. Swain

Diamond electron emission
I-Nan Lin, Satoshi Koizumi, Joan Yater and Franz Koeck

Diamond surface conductivity: Properties, devices, and sensors
Christopher I. Pakes, Jose A. Garrido and Hiroshi Kawarada

Technical Feature
Materials for semiconductor devices that can bend, fold, twist, and stretch
John A. Rogers

Journal of Materials Research
June 2014, Volume 29, Issue 12

A selection of papers:

Microstructure-based modeling of the impact response of a biomedical niobium–zirconium alloy
Orkun Onal, Burak Bal, S. Mine Toker, Morad Mirzajanzadeh, Demircan Canadinc and Hans J. Maier

Structural and magnetotransport studies of magnetic ion doping for monovalent-doped LaMnO₃ manganites
Dinesh Varshney and Neha Dodiya

Thermal and plastic behavior of nanoglasses
Oliver Franke, Daniel Leisen, Herbert Gleiter and Horst Hahn

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HAPPENINGS AT MRS

VIDEO: MRS TV interview with Christine Luscombe of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, who was an organizer of Symposium FF: Grand Challenges in Organic Electronics, at the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting.

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Of Interest to the Materials Science Community

NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for Leading Edge Aeronautics Research for NASA (LEARN)

The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s (ARMD’s) NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) has released a solicitation for multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary team-based proposals for research as participating members of LEARN. Proposals must clearly articulate an innovative, broadly based research concept addressing one or more of the six ARMD strategic thrusts, and have the potential to mature into technologies of interest to ARMD or to commercial aerospace companies.

Proposals are due August 20, 2014.

Please see the NSPIRES website for specific information relative to this solicitation. Reference Appendix E of the NASA ARMD Research Opportunities in Aeronautics (ROA-2014) in the Open Solicitations section.

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

All-in-One Thin Film System

Semicore Equipment, Inc. recently introduced their new CAPOS™ system, the industry's first, cost-effective, open-platform system offering full range utility from precise R & D and small batch production. Offering many standard options and custom formats, this innovative advance extends capabilities while generating high levels of performance. It delivers a range of accurate coatings for a variety of materials and hybrid substrates used by electronic, optical, solar energy, medical, automotive, military, aerospace and related high-tech industries.
[Contact: [email protected] or 925-373-8201]

New AFM-Enabled Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) Mode

Agilent Technologies Inc. recently introduced its AFM-enabled Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) mode, a seamlessly integrated technology package that enables scientists to perform scanning electrochemical microscopy on conductive and insulating samples. This unique mode of AFM operation allows scanning electrochemical microscopy to be performed quickly and reliably with nanoscale resolution. The new SECM mode provides great utility for a broad range of applications, including investigations of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer reactions, imaging of biologically active processes, surface modification, analysis of thin films, screening of catalytic material, and studies of corrosion processes.
[Contact: [email protected] or 970-679-5397]

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