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Call for Papers! 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit Abstract submission deadline is June 19.
Nominate a Colleague Today! Deadlines are rapidly approaching in July and August for a large number of awards presented by MRS annually. NEW! The MRS Postdoctoral Award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who are showing exceptional promise that may include, for example, excellence in scientific research, leadership, advocacy, outreach, or teaching, during their postdoc assignment. The nomination deadline is August 31. The Kavli Early Career Lectureship in Nanoscience recognizes significant novel contributions to materials science by a young researcher in early stages of his/her career. The nomination deadline is July 15. The nomination deadline is August 1 for the following awards:
The 2014 MRS Spring Meeting MRS OnDemand® Videos are Now Available for Viewing! If you missed anything at the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting, or would just like to watch a favorite presentation again, MRS OnDemand has what you are looking for. Highlights include some of the Symposium X and award lectures, seven tutorials, the Technology Innovation Forum VII, and the Women in Materials Science and Engineering Breakfast. In addition, selected presentations from 25 technical symposia are ready for viewing. NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MATERIALS Materials in Focus New Oleophobic-Hydrophilic Smart Coating Efficiently Separates Oil From Water Image caption: Demonstration of oil-water separation: stainless steel mesh dip-coated with the poly-fluorosurfactant complex in a 33 vol % DMF-66 vol % methanol solvent mixture. Credit: American Chemical Society. Click image to enlarge.
When the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill struck in 2010, Jas Pal Badyal had already been pondering water-oil separation methods for years. Prior to the spill, Badyal and his colleagues at Durham University's Department of Chemistry had succeeded in developing a small-scale technique that could separate those two materials. But scaling it up would require additional funding and interest that so far had been lacking. In the wake of the oil spill, however, suddenly additional incentive was there. More Read the abstract in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
Hydrogel Breaks Down in Presence of New Bone Growth Image caption: The hydrogel turns from liquid to semi-solid as it moves from room temperature to near body temperature in an experiment. The material inside the tube quickly turns white as it gellates. Chemical links in the gel take longer to form, but help it hold its size and shape as a scaffold for growing new tissue. Photo by Jeff Fitlow. Click image to enlarge.
Many bone defects, often caused by extensive trauma or large tumor resection, will not heal on their own. Often, the treatment for such defects utilizes grafts taken from other parts of the body. The treatment is not ideal as not only does it cause damage to the donor site, but it's also difficult to make perfect molds onto the damaged location, especially on the face where small contour abnormalities are easily noticed. Tissue engineering is making promising advances to help address these issues with bone regeneration. Specifically, a new study published in Biomacromolecules describes a new polymer that can be injected to match the contours of the face and which degrades as new bone tissue replaces it. More Read the abstract in Biomacromolecules.
Hybrid Foam Supercapacitor Electrodes Exhibit Exceptional Energy Density
Read the abstract in Scientific Reports. 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 Image in Focus  Horrific Hidden Teeth FIB section of a silicon nanowire carpet. Credit: Emanuele Enrico, INRiM, Italy. (Click image to enlarge.)
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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. 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. Critical Meeting Deadlines
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Research Letters: Doping of TiO2 nanopowders with vanadium for the reduction of its band gap reaching the visible light spectrum region Get your free Android App or iTunes App for MRS Communications for full mobile access to this journal.
CVD Diamond—Research, Applications, and Challenges 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.
Diamond is a unique material that often exhibits extreme properties compared to other materials. Discovered about 30 years ago, the use of hydrogen in plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has enabled the growth and coating of diamond in film form on various substrate materials. CVD diamond research has been actively continued subsequently to develop new understanding and approaches for the growth and processing of this fascinating material. Currently, the study and development of diamond films has enabled a wide range of applications based on the combination of unique and extreme properties of diamond and the variety of film properties obtainable through tuning the microstructure, morphology, impurities, and surfaces. This issue of MRS Bulletin introduces the latest research, recent applications, and the challenges ahead for CVD diamond films.
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A selection of papers: Microstructure-based modeling of the impact response of a biomedical niobium–zirconium alloy Structural and magnetotransport studies of magnetic ion doping for monovalent-doped LaMnO3 manganites Thermal and plastic behavior of nanoglasses JUST PUBLISHED! in the MRS Symposium Proceedings Series For a complete list of volumes in the MRS Symposium Proceedings Series visit www.cambridge.org/us/mrsproceedings
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.
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. [To suggest items for inclusion in Industry News and New Products Focus, please contact Mary Kaufold at 724-779-2755] Materials360 is edited by Tim Palucka, Science News Editor, Materials Research Society.
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