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IN FOCUS


Elastic Strain Engineering Webinar
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET)

Please join webinar host Ju Li of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with speakers Martin Friak (Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research), Darrell Schlom (Cornell University), Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Vinayak Dravid (Northwestern University) as they discuss the latest topics in elastic strain engineering.

This webinar is FREE to attend, but advance registration is required.


MRS TV Video from the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting

 

MRS TV was pleased to talk to one of most popular speakers of the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting — the dynamic Kathleen Buse of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Buse gives an overview of her talk, "Women Persisting in the STEM Professions,"—why many women leave the profession and why many choose to stay.

 


Coming Soon! MRS OnDemand® Videos from the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting.

MRS OnDemand features the rich materials science content from the MRS annual meetings and other relevant resources, through an interactive experience, complete with video, audio and presentation materials.

The live-streamed content from the Technology Innovation Forum VII, selected awards lectures, technical symposia, and tutorials will be available for viewing soon. View a complete list of the events that we recorded here.



2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline May 15, 2014

The 2015 Fall Meeting Chairs are seeking symposium proposals by May 15, 2014. All proposals must be submitted via the online submittal site at http://callforpapers.mrs.org, using your MRS username and password. If you do not have a username and password, the site will enable you to create them.

Please take this opportunity to help shape the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting to include the symposia you want to see!



XXIII International Materials Research Congress
Cancun, Mexico, August 17-21, 2014

Abstract Deadline Extended to May 16, 2014

The Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales (SMM) are excited to be working together once again to grow the International Materials Research Congress (IMRC), held annually in Cancun, Mexico.

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MATERIALS


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Materials in Focus

Polymeric Microparticle Barcodes Could Enhance Anti-counterfeiting Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

by Tim Palucka

Image caption: Imaging of barcoded particles covertly embedded within currency. Image credit: Dr. Jiseok Lee. Click image to enlarge.

Polymer microparticles that can be embedded into, or embossed onto, paper currency, credit cards, pharmaceutical packaging, and even treasured artwork could be the next big advance in anti-counterfeiting technology. Though normally invisible, when illuminated with near-infrared (NIR) light they appear as micron-scaled rods with up to six horizontal stripes of different colors, due to different rare earth nanoparticles in each stripe. The codes contained in these stripes can be used to uniquely identify millions of objects, with an error rate of less than one in a billion. More

Read the abstract in Nature Materials.

Bio Focus

A New Biodegradable Battery Holds Promise for Transient Electronics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

by Rachel Nuwer

Image caption: Breakdown sequence of the biodegradable battery. Image credit: Lan Yin. Click image to enlarge.

Implantable medical devices could provide a therapeutic role in healing, administering a localized electrical stimulation or heating, for example. They could also act as diagnostics-gathering tools, recording data about a patient's pH, temperature or electrical activity. The transient nature of these devices would be a boon to patients and doctors, who would not have to worry about either having to remove the devices or of accruing unnecessary devices in the body after their usefulness has expired. Figuring out how to power these devices, however, is a challenge. "If you're doing electronics, you always worry about power," says John Rogers, the Swanlund chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "But if you want true versatility in the operational characteristics, nothing beats a battery integrated into an electronic platform." More

Read the abstract in Advanced Materials.


Light-Activated Antimicrobial Surface Kills Bacteria in the Dark
University College London

by Joseph Bennington-Castro

Image caption: Researchers created a light-activated antimicrobial surface that also works in the dark by employing a simple "swell-encapsulation-shrink” technique, which involves dipping silicon samples into dye solutions. Credit: Noimark et al., Chemical Science. Click image to enlarge.

Despite strict cleaning and personal hygiene policies for staff, hospital-acquired infections are a major issue in the healthcare setting. Contaminated surfaces, such as door handles, phones and keyboards, help spread difficult-to-treat agents, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile. To help reduce infection rates, numerous researchers have been trying to develop antimicrobial surfaces, with varying degrees of success. Now scientists at University College London (UCL) have devised a new light-activated bactericidal material that also works in the dark. The new surfaces, which consist of a polymer infused with gold nanoparticles and two dyes, can kill pathogenic bacteria within a few hours. More

Read the abstract in the Chemical Science.


Industry Focus

New Auto Consortium targets material challenges in design, simulation, lightweighting, global manufacturing, and emissions reduction

Granta Design announced the launch of the Automotive Material Intelligence Consortium (‘AutoMatIC’). This new industry collaboration will bring together OEMs and suppliers in the automotive and off-highway vehicle sectors to develop best practice for materials information and its use. It will help these members as they aim to increase engineering productivity, lower costs, improve product performance, lower risk associated with materials supply and regulations on restricted substances, and make the most of investments in simulation and PLM. AutoMatIC is modeled on two projects that have pioneered the industrial application of materials information technology: the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) and the Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium. More


Image in Focus


Love, Starting from the Atomic Scale

Atomic resolution TEM image of a porous Si nanowire surface morphology.

Credit: Yu Chen, University of California, Los Angeles

(A First Place Winner 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.

HAPPENINGS AT MRS

MRS News

Call for PapersTwo Journal of Materials Research Focus Issues


Soft Nanomaterials—January 2015 issue

Submission deadline: May 15, 2014
Guest editors: Nicola M. Pugno, University of Trento, Italy; Xuanhe Zhao, Duke University; Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In-situ and Operando Characterization of Materials—February 2015 issue
Submission deadline: June 15, 2014
Guest editors: Scott T. Misture, Alfred University; Eric A. Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Bryan D. Huey, University of Connecticut; Vanessa K. Peterson, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

Visit the JMR Focus Issues web page for more details.


Of Interest to the Materials Science Community

Inside Science TV Video: Patching Potholes With Eco-Friendly Goo

Engineering students from Case Western Reserve University created a better solution to the standard "cold patch" for a pothole This “goo” is made of an eco-friendly, non-toxic material that acts like a liquid until something hits it; under a large impact, it solidifies instantly. To test the product, the team puts the “goo” in a bag in a pothole. When a car drives over it…the liquid instantly hardens – so your tires don’t drop in the hole. Click the image to start the video.

MEETINGS UPDATE

Critical Meeting Deadlines

5th International Symposium on Growth of III-Nitrides (ISGN-5)
May 18-22, 2014
Atlanta, GA

exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE!
Register by 5:00 pm (ET), May 2 for discounted rates.

New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference
(NDNC 2014)
May 25-29, 2014
Chicago, IL


exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE!
Register by 5:00 pm (ET), May 9 for discounted rates.

American Conference on Neutron Scattering
(ACNS 2014)
June 1-5, 2014
Knoxville, TN

exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION DEADLINE!
Register by 5:00 pm (ET), May 16 for discounted rates.

72nd Device Research Conference (DRC 2014)
June 22-25, 2014
Santa Barbara, CA

exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION OPEN
Register by 5:00 pm (ET), June 11 and SAVE!

56th Electronic Materials Conference (EMC 2014)
June 25-27, 2014
Santa Barbara, CA


exhibit opportunities available
PREREGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Register by 5:00 pm (ET), June 11 and SAVE!

XXIII International Materials Research Congress
August 17-21, 2014
Cancun, Mexico

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
Submission Deadline now May 16

8th International Workshop on Zinc Oxide and Related Materials (IWZnO 2014)
September 7-11, 2014
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline—June 17
4th International Symposium on Graphene Devices (ISGD-4)
September 21-25, 2014
Bellevue, WA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission site opens May 1

2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 30  - December 5, 2014
Boston, MA

exhibit opportunities available
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission site opens May 19

XXIV International Materials Research Congress
August 16-20, 2015
Cancun, Mexico

CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS Submission Deadline — May 1
2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
November 29 - December 4, 2015
Boston, MA
CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline — May 15

JUST PUBLISHED

MRS Communications

Research Letters:

Control of thermal and optoelectronic properties in conjugated poly(3-alkylthiophenes)
Victor Ho, Bryan S. Beckingham, Hoi H. Ng and Rachel A. Segalman

Ion-modulated transistors on paper using phase-separated semiconductor/insulator blends
Fredrik Pettersson, Ronald Österbacka, Janne Koskela, Ari Kilpelä, Tommi Remonen, Yanxi Zhang, Saara Inkinen, Carl-Eric Wilén, Roger Bollström, Martti Toivakka, Anni Määttänen, Petri Ihalainen and Jouko Peltonen

Guidelines in predicting phase formation of high-entropy alloys
Y. Zhang, Z.P. Lu, S.G. Ma, P.K. Liaw, Z. Tang, Y.Q. Cheng and M.C. Gao

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MRS Bulletin

Focused Ion Beam Technology and Applications
April 2014


Guest editors: Nabil Bassim, US Naval Research Laboratory; Keana Scott, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Lucille A. Giannuzzi
, L.A. Giannuzzi & Associates LLC and EXpressLO LLC

Focused ion beam microscopes are extremely versatile and powerful instruments for materials research. These microscopes, when coupled in a system with a scanning electron microscope, offer the opportunity for novel sample imaging, sectioning, specimen preparation, three-dimensional (3D) nano- to macroscale tomography, and high resolution rapid prototyping. The ability to characterize and create materials features in a site-specific manner at nanoscale resolution has provided key insights into many materials systems. The advent of novel instrumentation, such as new ion sources that encompass more and more of the periodic table, in situ test harnesses such as cryogenic sample holders for sensitive material analyses, novel detector configurations for 3D structural, chemical, and ion contrast characterization, and robust and versatile process automation capabilities, is an exciting development for many fields of materials research.

Introduction
Recent advances in focused ion beam technology and applications
Nabil Bassim, Keana Scott and Lucille A. Giannuzzi

(Free access)

Theme Articles
Advances in source technology for focused ion beam instruments
Noel S. Smith, John A. Notte and Adam V. Steele

High-resolution direct-write patterning using focused ion beams

Leonidas E. Ocola, Chad Rue and Diederik Maas

Modeling ion-solid interactions for imaging applications
D.C. Joy and J.R. Michael

In situ FIB-SEM characterization and manipulation methods
Nicholas Antoniou, Konrad Rykaczewski and Michael D. Uchic

Advances in 3D focused ion beam tomography
Marco Cantoni and Lorenz Holzer

Focused ion beam and scanning electron microscopy for 3D materials characterization
Paul G. Kotula, Gregory S. Rohrer and Michael P. Marsh

Technical Feature
Is silicene the next graphene?
L.C. Lew Yan Voon and G.G. Guzmán-Verri


Journal of Materials Research

April 2014, Volume 29, Issue 7


A selection of papers
:

Mechanical properties of Bombyx mori silkworm silk subjected to microwave radiation
Emily J. Reed and Christopher Viney

Mechanisms for microstructure enhancement in flux-assisted growth of barium titanate on sapphire
Matthew J. Burch, Jing Li, David T. Harris, Jon-Paul Maria and Elizabeth C. Dickey


Influence of Al addition on microstructure and properties of Cu–Fe-based coatings by laser induction hybrid rapid cladding
Shengfeng Zhou, Xiaoqin Dai, Zheng Xiong, Chao Wu, Tianyou Zhang and Zezhong Zhang

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS


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