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Gatan Inc.
Advanced Instruments for Materials Characterization



SPI Supplies
Sample Preparation Equipment and
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Goodfellow
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Ted Pella, Inc.
Microscopy Supplies and
Specimen Preparation Tools



Harrick Plasma, Inc.
Surface Cleaning, Activation,
Pre-bond Preparation



Asylum Research,
an Oxford Instruments Company

The Technology Leader in Scanning Probe/
Atomic Force
Microscopy



Bruker Nano Surfaces
AFM-Powered IR Nanochemical Imaging



HORIBA Scientific
Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) / Nano-Raman



American Elements
Now Invent.™


FEI Company
Fast S/TEM for 2D & 3D Chemical Analysis



Rigaku
Rigaku SmartLab
X-ray Diffractometer




Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
New level of
EDXRF excellence



Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc.
Precision Measurement for Extreme Environments



Bruker AXS
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Technology Innovation ForumNew Event Added for the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting!

iMatSci—Innovation in Materials Science is a new program that is being added to the lineup of activities at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting Technology Innovation Forum. It is a limited space event where select innovators will be invited to pitch new technologies to companies from a variety of industries as well as investors. Innovators interested in demonstrating an applied technology should complete an application form before September 15, 2014. More



Call for Papers

The Journal of Materials Research is looking for papers for a special focus issue on Radiation Damage and Effects Characterization: State of the Art, Challenges and Protocols.

Submission deadline is September 15.



MATERIALS NEWS


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Materials in Focus
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First Perovskite-Based Flexible Fiber Solar Cell

Researchers at Fudan University in China have made the first fiber-based perovskite solar cells. These low-cost threads could be woven into textiles to make a wearable power source for charging electronic gadgets, displays and sensors. More

 

A New Use for Phosphorus in Flexible Circuits and Optoelectronics

Researchers are revisiting an old material, black phosphorus, which shows new promise for flexible electronics. Last month in the journal Nature Communications, researchers led by Fengnian Xia and Han Wang, assistant professors of electrical engineering at Yale University and University of Southern California, described work on transistors made from thin films of black phosphorus. More


Ultrafast Cooling Finally Produces Monatomic Metallic Glass by Vitrification

Ultrafast cooling of a novel nano-tip device made of a single metallic element placed inside a TEM vacuum chamber has enabled scientists to finally succeed in making an elusive material—monatomic metallic glass. More



Industry Focus

A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing

A company called mCube has made a new kind of accelerometer, the device that senses motion from inside a smartphone or fitness monitor. More

MEETINGS UPDATE
Critical Meeting Deadlines

8th International Workshop on Zinc Oxide and Related Materials (IWZnO 2014)
September 7-11, 2014
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
ONLINE REGISTRATION
Available until 9:00 am (ET),
September 2


ON-SITE REGISTRATION

Opens at Sheraton on the Falls Hotel,
September 7, at 5:00 pm (ET)
4th International Symposium on Graphene Devices
(ISGD-4)
September 21-25, 2014
Bellevue, WA
PREREGISTRATION OPEN!
Register by 5:00 pm (ET) September 5 and SAVE!
2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 30-December 5, 2014
Boston, MA

exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION OPENS MID-SEPTEMBER
2015 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 6-10, 2015
San Francisco, CA

exhibit opportunities available
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission site opens September 23

20th International Conference on Solid State Ionics
(SSI-20)
June 14-19, 2015
Keystone, CO
SAVE THE DATE!


JUST PUBLISHED

MRS Communications

Research Letters:
Thermodynamic models of low-temperature Mn–Ni–Si precipitation in reactor pressure vessel steels
Wei Xiong, Huibin Ke, Ramanathan Krishnamurthy, Peter Wells, Leland Barnard, G. Robert Odette and Dane Morgan

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

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MRS Bulletin

New materials for post-Si computing
August 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

Science Policy
STEM mentoring initiative moves forward
Jennifer A. Nekuda Malik

Book Reviews
The Physics of Deformation and Fracture of Polymers
Ali S. Argon

Bionanomaterials for Dental Applications
Editor: Mieczyslaw Jurczyk

Electronic Structure of Materials
Rajendra Prasad


Journal of Materials Research

August 2014, Volume 29, Issue 15

A selection of papers:

Damage-tolerant Zr–Cu–Al-based bulk metallic glasses with record-breaking fracture toughness
Jian Xu and Evan Ma

Optical analysis of room temperature magnetron sputtered ITO films by reflectometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry
Tivadar Lohner, K. Jagadeesh Kumar, Péter Petrik, Aryasomayajula Subrahmanyam and István Bársony

Hidden energy dissipation mechanism in nacre

Zaiwang Huang, Zhiliang Pan, Haoze Li, Qiuming Wei and Xiaodong Li

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 1622, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium E - Fundamentals of Gels and Self-Assembled Polymer Systems:

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Microgel-Modified Biomaterials Surfaces
Yong Wu, Jing Liang, Qichen Wang
and Matthew Libera

Nanoprobe Diffusion in Poly(Vinyl-alcohol) Gels and Solutions: Effects of pH and Dehydration
Hacène Boukari, Candida Silva, Ralph Nossal and Ferenc Horkay

IN PRINT — MRS Symposium Proceedings Series
From the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting – Boston, MA
                                 
Advances in Structures, Properties and applications of Biological and Bioinspired Materials
Editors: S.P. Nukavarapu, H. Liu, T. Deng, M. Oyen, C. Tamerler
Volume 1621
ISBN 9781605115986

Oxide Semiconductors
Editors: S. Durbin, M. Grundmann, A. Janotti, T. Veal
Volume 1633
ISBN 9781605116105

For a complete list of volumes in the MRS Symposium Proceedings Series visit  www.cambridge.org/us/mrsproceedings

SCIENCE AS ART


Mercurial Eclipse
by Samuel Cooper, Imperial College London, UK

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Colourised SEM image showing the cross section of a microtubular fuel cell with a hierarchical microstructure. The slight tilt of the sample reveals the inner surface of the tube, which reminded the authors of a solar eclipse unlike any other. Some lens flare and stars were added to complete the effect!

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

Inside Science TV

Nanowire Packs Portable Power

Scientists from the University of Central Florida take a copper wire and cover it with billions of teeny, tiny nanowires and create layers that are glued together. The result is a wire that can create energy on the inside layers and store it within the outside layers.

Click the image to start the video.



OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY

NISE Network
Join the next Brown-Bag conversation

Localizing your NanoDays Kit: Adapting Kit Material for Local Culture and Industry
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
3:00pm – 4:00pm (ET)

Brown-Bag conversations are free online professional development opportunities that allow educators and scientists to share and learn from each other.  Sign up to join the conversation.

NanoDays is an annual event that brings Nanotechnology to the general public through outreach events across the nation. The NISE Network develops interactive outreach activities that can be used for NanoDays and a variety of outreach programs. The collection of adaptable activities and resources from the past nine years is available on the NISE Network website.

Previous Brown-Bag workshops have been recorded and are available for viewing as well.


CAREER CENTRAL

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

California Institute of Technology 
Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Resnick Sustainability Institute and Engineering

Dartmouth College 
Faculty Position, Materials Chemistry

Harvard University | Wyss Institute
Faculty Position, Polymer Synthesis/Biomaterials

Iowa State University 
Faculty Position, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Johns Hopkins University 
Postdoctoral Position, 3D Microstructural Characterization

National Science Foundation 
Program Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program

National Science Foundation
Program Directors, Biomaterials and Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Programs

Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
Liane B. Russell Fellowship

Sandia National Laboratories 
Harry S. Truman Fellowship, National Security Science and Engineering

Toyota Technological Institute 
Faculty Position, Department of Advanced Science and Technology

University at Buffalo  
Tenure-Track Faculty Position, Theoretical & Computational Chemistry

University of Alabama 
Faculty Position, Center for Materials for Information Technology

University of California, Santa Barbara 
Assistant Professor, Electronic and Photonic Materials

University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular and Macromolecular Materials

University of Washington 
Assistant Professor in Bio-Based Materials, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences


NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

New Multi-Gauge Controller

The Kurt J. Lesker Company® recently announced the addition of a new multi-gauge controller to their pressure measurement product line. The MGC4000 multi-gauge controller has the ability to display pressure measurements from up to 10 different vacuum gauges simultaneously. The instrument, able to provide pressure measurements from 1000 Torr to 2x10-11 Torr, can be configured to display up to six gauges in a single screen or any number of gauges can be assigned to various screens for auto scrolling of display. Customers can easily configure the MGC4000 to their exact specifications on our website by specifying the number of gauges, set points, and AI/AO they need. This allows them to only purchase the level of functionality that they need, offering the user low cost of ownership and unparalleled ease of use.
[Contact: [email protected] or 412-387-9200]

High-Resolution X-ray Nano-CT System

Micro Photonics and Bruker MicroCT introduce the new Multi-Scale SkyScan 2211 X-ray Nano/Micro tomograph, a high-resolution X-ray nano-CT (computed tomography) system with the widest available range of object sizes and spatial resolutions. With the SkyScan 2211, for the first time one single instrument is capable of non-destructive scanning and 3D reconstruction of internal microstructures of large objects, as well as providing submicron resolution for small samples. This multiscale X-ray nanotomograph opens unique possibilities for 3D imaging and exact modeling of materials in a number of applications, such as oil and gas exploration, composite materials, fuel cells, and electronic assemblies.
[Contact: [email protected] or 610-366-7103]

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