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2013 Impact Factors Announced for MRS Journals

• Once again, MRS Bulletin is ranked in the top 10% of materials science journals with a continued high Impact Factor of 5.069
• The Journal of Materials Research (JMR) maintains an impressive cited half-life of >10 and a rising Impact Factor of 1.815
• MRS Communications’ Impact Factor has increased by 24% in its second year of publication

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2015 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 6-10, 2015
San Francisco, California

Abstract Submission Opens September 23.

Nominate a Colleague for the New MRS Postdoctoral Awards

The MRS Awards Program strives to acknowledge outstanding contributors to the progress of materials research, and to recognize their exciting and profound accomplishments.

• MRS Postdoctoral Awards—Nomination Deadline is August 31

The inaugural awards will be presented at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. More details can be found on the MRS Awards page.

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Resonant Vibrations Trigger Charge Transfer in Photosynthesis

For materials scientists, photosynthesis is a blueprint for solar energy. Just how the reaction works on the molecular level in plants, though, is still a mystery. However, a new study published in Nature Chemistry might pinpoint how electron transfer works in plants, perhaps leading to even more efficient solar cells. More

“Anti-crystal” Useful in Describing Disordered and Partially Ordered Materials

The study of materials has had great success for a century or more in starting with the "perfect crystal" and adding defects as perturbations to describe real, imperfect systems. Now, researchers are having some success, at least at the simulation stage using ideal spherical atoms, by starting at the opposite end of the spectrum with a completely disordered state called an "anti-crystal" and adding order as the perturbation. More

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Can Be Achieved with Self-Organized, All-oxide Electrodes

A team of Swiss researchers has created new photonic light trapping structures using iron and tungsten oxide to split water to obtain hydrogen fuel. Florent Boudoire, a graduate student at University of Basel and researcher at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, created the new electrode architecture, which decouples light absorption and charge management. More

Industry Focus

Lensless Imaging with Table-Top Soft-X-Ray Source Promises Laboratory-friendly Ultra-high Resolution Microscopy

Andor's Lensless imaging offers the prospect of a radical improvement in resolution by reconstructing a high-resolution image of an object from one or more diffraction patterns. More

JUST PUBLISHED

Research Letters:

Comparison of the Young's moduli of polymers measured from nanoindentation and bending experiments
Ricardo Martinez and L. Roy Xu

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

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MRS Bulletin

Organic Spintronics
July 2014

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

Letter from the President
Advancing the MRS Mission through the Materials Research Society Foundation
Tia Benson Tolle, 2014 MRS President

Material Matters
Materials science in the Anthropocene: MRS gets serious about sustainable development
Martin L. Green

Science Policy
Next-generation nuclear power in the UK: A challenge but not an impossibility
Angela Saini

Journal of Materials Research
July 2014, Volume 29, Issue 13

A selection of papers:

Preparation and electrochemical evaluation of NiO nanoplatelet-based materials for lithium storage
Xiujuan Wang, Gang Wang, Gaohong Zhai and Hui Wang

N-doped graphene quantum dots-functionalized titanium dioxide nanofibers and their highly efficient photocurrent response
Xiaotian Wang, Dandan Ling, Yueming Wang, Huan Long, Yibai Sun, Yanqiong Shi, Yuchao Chen, Yao Jing, Yueming Sun and Yunqian Dai

Solvothermal synthesis and electromagnetic absorption properties of pyramidal Ni superstructures
Biao Zhao, Gang Shao, Bingbing Fan, Yajun Xie, Binbin Wang and Rui Zhang

MRS Online Proceedings Library

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From Volume 1621, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium H/C/D/J – Advances in Structures, Properties and Applications of Biological and Bioinspired Materials:

Science of Swimming and the Swimming of the Soft Shelled Turtle
Shinichiro Ito

Toward bioinspired nanostructures for selective vapor sensing: diverse vapor-induced spectral responses within iridescent scales of Morpho butterflies
Timothy A. Starkey, Peter Vukusic and Radislav A. Potyrailo

IN PRINT — MRS Symposium Proceedings Series
From the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting – San Francisco, CA
                                 
Nanostructured Semiconductors and Nanotechnology
Editors:  I. Berbezier, J-N. Aqua, J. Floro, A. Kuznetsov
Volume 1551
ISBN 9781605115283

SCIENCE AS ART

Aurora Mesocrystalis
by Michael Agthe, Stockholm University, Sweden

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The Aurora Mesocrystalis is a composite image of the breath-taking Swedish nature and dendritic-like grown large ordered arrays of nanoparticles. Toluene dispersed iron oxide nanocubes (9.6 nm edge length) were drop-cast on an SiO₂ substrate and self-assembled during controlled solvent removal to these several hundred micrometer large, densely ramified mesocrystals, resembling a typical boreal forest. Two images of the northern lights were taken far up in northern Sweden close to the city of Luleå. A third image was captured during the self-assembly experiment in the labs of the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University. The resulting composite artwork was edited with GIMP 2.8.10.

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

MRS TV interviewed Marilyn Minus, Organizer of Symposium FFF on "Educating and Mentoring Young Materials Scientists for Career Development" at the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting.

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OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

M37: A New Model for Impact-driven Technology Innovation

M37 is an entrepreneurial R&D program -- a home for top innovators to develop high-impact energy technologies. Developing energy technologies isn't easy. It involves tough science, long validation cycles, and brutal economics. We are seeking 5 top innovators for M37's founding cohort. Learn more about the program here.

CAREER CENTRAL

Classifieds

Partial listing from the upcoming August 2014 issue of MRS Bulletin

Aalto University
Tenure-track or Tenured Position, School of Chemical Technology

Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne Named Fellowship Program

National Science Foundation
Program Directors, Division of Materials Research

Stanford University
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Head and Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

University of Kentucky
Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering

University of Virginia
Alcoa Research Position, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Weizmann Institute of Science
Faculty Position, Department of Materials and Interfaces

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology
Center Directorships, Tenure-Track Faculty Positions, Postdoctoral Research Fellows

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

Deposition Rate Controller Now Supports Multi-Crystal Sensors

The latest TMC13 Deposition Rate Controller from Henniker Scientific is further extended with 0.01Hz frequency resolution and support for multi-crystal sensors with each crystal being controlled individually. It is a versatile, multi-channel device that has been designed for repeatable, reliable and accurate control of film thickness and rate in vacuum based thin film deposition processes. The feature-rich touch-screen interface can be easily customized to suit a particular operator preference and can be operated in both automatic and manual modes. The device also includes shutter relays for each channel, two analogue inputs for connection of pressure gauges, and two re-transmission analogue outputs as standard, as well as an extensive and fully editable materials library.
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Dynamic Frequency Tuning Technology in RF Plasma Generators

MKS Instruments, Inc. has introduced Dynamic Frequency Tuning (DFT) technology in RF plasma generators. DFT is a patented new capability which provides significant enhancement over conventional frequency tuning schemes which require more than 500 μsec of course and fine steps to search for the minima in reflected power. With DFT, measurement of power distortion is used to quickly and accurately achieve matched power in less than 50 μsec. Used in semiconductor applications such as PECVD, PE-ALD and oxide and poly etch, DFT technology has proven invaluable for reduced plasma stabilization time resulting in more controlled, consistent and repeatable etch and deposition steps.
[Contact: [email protected] or 978-645-5500]

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