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IN FOCUS

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MRS Energy & SustainabilityA Review Journal Publishes First Papers


We are pleased to announce the publication of the first review articles in our new publication MRS Energy & Sustainability—A Review Journal. Topics include the rectifying antenna ("rectenna") being investigated for photovoltaics, amorphous to graphitic carbon dots, and a review of the challenges involving the global scale-up of renewable energy technologies.

 

Access to all articles is currently FREE. Please check out this latest offering from MRS and Cambridge University Press!


Nominate a Colleague for a 2014 MRS Award

The MRS Awards Program strives to acknowledge outstanding contributors to the progress of materials research, and to recognize their exciting and profound accomplishments. With upcoming deadlines of August 1 and 31, be sure to get your nominations in on time for the following awards:

August 1 Deadline August 31 Deadline

More details can be found on the MRS Awards page.

MATERIALS NEWS


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Materials in Focus
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Mechanical Metamaterials Produce Ultralight, Ultrastiff Polymer, Metal, and Ceramic Lattices

By causing forces to distribute only in stretching or compression modes along the struts of an octet truss, researchers have fabricated ultralight, ultrastiff materials from polymers, metals, and ceramics. These materials could have applications in automobiles and aircraft, where lightweighting could help to conserve fuel without giving up strength. More

 

Smart Morphable Surfaces Can Dimple At Will, Reducing Air Drag

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created smart morphable surfaces, or "Smorphs," which can mimic the surface of golf balls. The surface of the spherical sample is made out of a silicone-based material and is initially smooth, but can become reversibly dimpled at will, altering its aerodynamic properties to best deal with the air drag it's experiencing. More



New Hybrid Perovskite Deposition Method Efficiently Engineers Uniform Solar Cells

Perovskite can be deposited as a solution, but that process often creates less-than-perfect results, leaving grainy clumps rather than a smooth, uniform layer of perovskite. Now, scientists at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology have developed a new deposition process that uses a mixed solvent to form a uniform inorganic-organic bi-layered structure. More

Industry Focus

NanoFab Lab … in a Box!™

The NanoFab Lab … in a Box!™ by EChem Nanowires, LLC, was just selected as one of the top 100 emerging technologies. This product is an educational kit that allows easy and rapid duplication of patterned nanowires without the need for a multimillion dollar clean room. Watch a video describing this new product here.

MEETINGS UPDATE
Critical Meeting Deadlines

XXIII International Materials Research Congress
August 17-21, 2014
Cancun, Mexico
REGISTER TODAY!
8th International Workshop on Zinc Oxide and Related Materials (IWZnO 2014)
September 7-11, 2014
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
PREREGISTRATION OPENS SOON!
4th International Symposium on Graphene Devices (ISGD-4)
September 21-25, 2014
Bellevue, WA
PREREGISTRATION OPENS SOON!
2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 30-December 5, 2014
Boston, MA

exhibit opportunities available

PREREGISTRATION OPENS MID-SEPTEMBER


JUST PUBLISHED

MRS Communications

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

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MRS Bulletin

Organic Spintronics
July 2014


Organic materials provide a unique platform for exploiting the spin of the electron—a field dubbed organic spintronics. This issue, which features six theme articles, explores the growing interest in utilizing the molecular spin state as a quantum of information, aiming to develop multifunctional molecular spintronics for memory, sensing, and logic applications.

 

Introduction
On the path toward organic spintronics
Jagadeesh S. Moodera, Bert Koopmans and Peter M. Oppeneer, guest editors

Technical Feature
Biocompatible ultrananocrystalline diamond coatings for implantable medical devices
Orlando Auciello, Pablo Gurman, Maria B. Guglielmotti, Daniel G. Olmedo, Alejandro Berra and Mario J. Saravia


Journal of Materials Research

June 2014, Volume 29, Issue 12

A selection of papers:

The correlation between indentation hardness and material properties with considering size effect
Zhanwei Yuan, Fuguo Li, Bo Chen and Fengmei Xue

First-principle study on thermodynamic property of superhard BC2N under extreme conditions
Ping Zhou, Chenghua Hu, Zhifeng Liu, Feng Wang, Mu Zhou, Chunlian Hu, Zhou Zheng, Yanling Ji and Xinqiang Wang


Adapted solute drag model for impurity-controlled grain boundary motion

Hao Sun and Chuang Deng

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.

 



SCIENCE AS ART


Post-impressionism Graphene
by
Camilla Coletti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy

Image of trilayer graphene on SiC (with a bit of bilayer and tetralayer!) taken by SEM and post-colored using the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).


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

2014 MRS Spring Meeting Attendees Comment on the Value of Attending MRS Meetings

MRS TV interviewed some attendees of the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting to get their views on the importance of the conference.
Hear what they have to say!

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OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

MRS Member Awarded IEEE Honor

MRS member Meyya Meyyappan recently received an IEEE Professional Achievement Award "for championing nanotechnology awareness and education through the development of TryNano.org."

Meyyappan is the Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at the NASA Ames Research Center.

TryNano.org is a resource for anyone interested in learning about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.


An Invitation to Participate in the AAAS "Meet the Scientists!" Program

As part of Family Science Days, the Meet the Scientists! program consists of short, lively presentations, appropriate for middle-school students, but attended by younger and older children and their families as well. Suggestions for potential Meet the Scientists! speakers and topics should be submitted to Linda Hosler, AAAS, [email protected], by September 1, 2014. The 2015 AAAS Family Science Days event will be held Saturday, February 14, and Sunday, February 15, at the San Jose Convention Center.

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

Gas Mixing System Improves Process Control

Veeco Instruments Inc. recently introduced the Apex™ Gas Mixing System for point-of-use gas mixing. The Apex system generates precise binary gas mixtures on a single platform for use in semiconductor applications at 20nm and below. The Apex Gas Mixing System improves concentration control, providing tighter process management, increased tool uptime and reduced manufacturing costs. Powered by Veeco’s production-proven Piezocon® Gas Concentration Sensor, the Apex system reduces production costs by allowing manufacturers to purchase lower-cost, higher-concentration gases, and then dilute them at the point of use to immediately cut gas purchase costs by as much as 60 percent.
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Coatings Generate Electricity on See-through Glass and Flexible Plastics

New Energy Technologies Inc., developer of see-through SolarWindow™ coatings, capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, recently made public never-before-seen images of the Company's largest area, high-performance SolarWindow arrays. These SolarWindow arrays measure over 232 cm2 and are produced with highly-uniform, colored tints preferred by commercial window manufacturers for installation on skyscrapers, worldwide. New Energy's SolarWindow is capable of operating in direct, diffuse, and shaded sunlight conditions, and also generates electricity from both natural and artificial light sources. The technology is the subject of forty-two patent filings, and researchers are on track to advance SolarWindow towards full-scale commercial manufacturability .
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