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Preregistration Opens Mid-January
2016 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
March 28-April 1, 2016
Phoenix, Arizona
www.mrs.org/spring2016 |
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ATTENTION INNOVATORS—Demonstrate Your Technology at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting!
Innovator demonstration applications for the 2016 iMatSci—Innovation in Materials Science are now being accepted. Present your technology in front of potential sources of venture capital while competing for cash prizes. Visit www.mrs.org/spring-2016-imatsci for more information.
Application Deadline: January 25, 2016 |
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Materials in Focus
Diamondoids are a nanometal’s best friend |
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Nanomaterials have found a wide range of applications in areas including the aerospace, defense, automobile, microelectronics, and pharmaceutical industries. However, maintaining the size of the nanoscale particles is a major problem for materials formed and used at high temperatures, when grain growth can be rapid.
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Li-containing magnesium alloy combines strength, ductility, and corrosion resistance
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Despite decades of effort, materials researchers have yet to devise magnesium alloys that combine three essential characteristics—strength, ductility, and corrosion resistance—because they tend to be mutually exclusive. Now an international research team has reported an optimized magnesium–lithium composition along with a sequence of thermal and mechanical treatments that deal with these difficulties and possibly open the way for wider use of magnesium alloys. |
Electric field softens glass below the transition temperature
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Electric fields have been used in the field of ceramics and to some extent glass, but their use has not been investigated for glass forming that requires softening. A recent study shows how strong of an impact external electric fields can have on common alkali silicate glasses. In addition, when an electric current flows, these glasses show photoemission, pointing to a possible mechanism behind an electric field’s ability to speed up the softening process.
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Industry Focus
Climate deal is signal to industry: The era of carbon reduction is here
With the ink barely dry on a landmark climate accord, nations now face an even more daunting challenge: how to get their industries to go along. If nothing else, analysts and experts say, the accord is a signal to businesses and investors that the era of carbon reduction has arrived.
Policy Focus
Interior and Energy Departments formally establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz signed a memorandum of agreement today establishing the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The agreement directs how the National Park Service (NPS) and the Department of Energy will work together to preserve, protect, and provide access to the historic resources associated with the Manhattan Project at locations in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Los Alamos, New Mexico; and the Hanford Site in Washington state.
For more science policy news, follow @MaterialsSciPol
OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY
Invest in material sciences for economic growth
Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, says government needs to invest in Materials Science and Engineering to ensure sustainable economic transformation...More
MEETINGS UPDATE
Critical Meeting Deadlines
2016 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
March 28-April 1, 2016
Phoenix, Arizona
exhibit opportunities available |
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Preregistration Opens Mid-January
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74th Device Research Conference (DRC 2016)
June 19-22, 2016
Newark, Delaware
exhibit opportunities available |
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58th Electronic Materials Conference
(58th EMC)
June 22-24, 2016
Newark, Delaware
exhibit opportunities available |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Submission Deadline
—January 29, 2016
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American Conference on Neutron Scattering
(ACNS 2016)
July 10-14, 2016
Long Beach, California
exhibit opportunities available |
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18th International Conference on Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy
(ICMOVPE-XVIII)
July 10-15, 2016
San Diego, California
exhibit opportunities available |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Submission
Deadline
—February 29, 2016
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5th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds
(MOF 2016)
September 11-15, 2016
Long Beach, California
exhibit opportunities available |
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International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors
(IWN 2016)
October 2-7, 2016
Orlando, Florida
exhibit opportunities available |
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PUBLICATIONS UPDATE
Critical Publications Deadlines
JUST PUBLISHED
MRS Advances
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GaSb and InSb Quantum Nanostructures: Morphologies and Optical Properties
Thanavorn Poempool, Zon, Suwit Kiravittaya, Suwat Sopitpan, Supachok Thainoi, Songphol Kanjanachuchai, Somchai Ratanathamaphan and Somsak Panyakeow
Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Behavior of a Metal Matrix Composite Processed by Severe Plastic Deformation Techniques
Shima Sabbaghianrad and Terence G. Langdon
Development of High Strength-High Conductivity Cu-6 wt% Ag Alloy for High Field Magnet
Yoshikazu Sakai, Takaaki Hibaru, Kiyoshi Miura, Akira Matsuo, Koushi Kawaguchi and Koichi Kindo
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Indacenodithiophene–benzothiadiazole organic field-effect transistors with gravure-printed semiconductor and dielectric on plastic
Stuart G. Higgins, Beinn V.O. Muir, Martin Heeney and Alasdair J. Campbell
Influence of morphological disorder on in- and out-of-plane charge transport in conjugated polymer films
Anton Li, Ban Xuan Dong and Peter F. Green
Ultrahigh strength of three-dimensional printed diluted magnesium doping wollastonite porous scaffolds
Jiajun Xie, Huifeng Shao, Dongshuang He, Xianyan Yang, Chunlei Yao, Juan Ye, Yong He, Jianzhong Fu and Zhongru Gou |
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Materials transform designs and equations into articles. Engineering, in turn, enables this transformation. Advancements in one propel advances in the other, creating new materials and well-integrated technologies. The relationship between materials and applications is the focus of this special issue.
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Selected Theme Article
Biopolymers and supramolecular polymers as biomaterials for biomedical applications
Ronit Freeman, Job Boekhoven, Matthew B. Dickerson, Rajesh R. Naik, and Samuel I. Stupp
Not just graphene: The wonderful world of carbon and related nanomaterials
Yury Gogotsi
Materials by design: Using architecture in material design to reach new property spaces
Lauren Montemayor, Victoria Chernow, and Julia R. Greer
Ultraflexible organic electronics
Takao Someya, Martin Kaltenbrunner, and Tomoyuki Yokota
Localized fields, global impact: Industrial applications of resonant plasmonic materials
J.A. Dionne, A. Baldi, B. Baum, C.-S. Ho, V. Janković, G.V. Naik, T. Narayan, J.A. Scholl, and Y. Zhao
Designing defect spins for wafer-scale quantum technologies
William F. Koehl, Hosung Seo, Giulia Galli, and David D. Awschalom
Additive manufacturing of materials: Opportunities and challenges
S.S. Babu, L. Love, R. Dehoff, W. Peter, T.R. Watkins, and S. Pannala
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A selection of papers:
Approaching extremely low thermal conductivity by crystal structure engineering in Mg2Al4Si5O18
Yiran Li, Jiemin Wang, and Jingyang Wang
Role of interface tailoring by Cu coating CNTs to optimize Cu-W composites
Pingan Chen, Qiang Shen, Guoqiang Luo, Chuanbing Wang, Meijuan Li, Lianmeng Zhang
A unified physically-based constitutive model for describing strain hardening effect and dynamic recovery behavior of a Ni-based superalloy
Y.C. Lin, Dong-Xu Wen, Yuan-Chun Huang, Xiao-Min Chen, Xue-Wen Chen |
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From Volume 1725, 2014 MRS Fall Meeting,
Symposium I – Emerging 1D and 2D Nanomaterials in Health Care
Nano-Encapsulation of Glucose Oxidase Dimer by Graphene
Umesh Ghoshdastider, Rongliang Wu, Bartosz Trzaskowski, Krzysztof Mlynarczyk, Przemyslaw Miszta, Manickam Gurusaran, Sowmya Viswanathan, Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan and Slawomir Filipek
Oxygen Activation by N-doped Graphitic Carbon Nanostructures
Benjamin W. Noffke, Qiqi Li, Liang-shi Li and Krishnan Raghavachari
Biosensors for Food Toxin Detection: Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Bansi D. Malhotra, Saurabh Srivastava and Shine Augustine |
SCIENCE AS ART
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Magnetostatic Spawn
by Aleks Labuda, Asylum Research
Ferrofluids are colloidal liquids made of nanoscale ferromagnetic particles suspended in a carrier fluid. Surfactants in the fluid prevent the agglomeration of the nanoparticles because their strong van der Waals forces exceed the particles’ weak magnetic attraction. Reducing the size of the magnetite (or hematite) nanoparticles to below 10 nm is key in preventing their precipitation from the carrier fluid. At such length scales, Brownian motion ensures their indefinite suspension under normal conditions.
A First Place Winner in the Science as Art competition at the 2015 MRS Fall 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
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MRS-TV: Polycraft—Educational Innovation through Gaming
Shelby Parker and Walter Voit of University of Texas at Dallas discuss Polycraft: Educational Innovation through Gaming, a project that received an Materials Research Society Foundation Grassroots Grant in 2015. Also check out UT-Polycraft World during the holiday break! |
CAREER CENTRAL
Partial listing of classified ads from the January 2016 issue of MRS Bulletin
Dartmouth College
Harris Career Development Assistant Professorship
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Faculty Positions, Chemical & Biological Engineering Program
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Faculty Positions, Chemical Science Program
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Faculty Positions, Material Science & Engineering Program
Stanford University
Lecturer, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Akron
Faculty Appointments, Biomimicry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska Nanoscience Facility Positions
NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS
New Adjustable 10,000 Volt Power Supply
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McPherson recently announced that their high-voltage power supply series now features a 10,000 Volt configuration. The new 10-kilovolt Model 7643 joins the already popular one, two and 5-kilovolt versions. These power supplies are used for many purposes in the laboratory, including powering photomultiplier tubes, electron multipliers, microchannel plates and more. A proven reliable, stable source of high voltage, the 10 kV Model 7643 operates sensitive photomultiplier tubes and related devices for critical photometric and spectroscopy applications.
Contact: [email protected] or 978-256-4512 |
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New High-reflectance Coating |
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Acton Optics & Coatings has developed a 193nm XL high-reflectance coating that is ideal for low-fluence, high-repetition-rate excimer laser applications, particularly those associated with semiconductor R&D and test. The new coating, which boasts ≥96% reflectance (45° angle of incidence) to ≥97% reflectance (normal incidence) at 193 nm, is also an excellent choice for micromachining and materials processing applications. Its innovative design minimizes the possibility of catastrophic damage due to micro-defects and thermal stress fractures, as well as preventing dehydration effects from high-repetition-rate operation. This robust ultraviolet-wavelength coating passes MIL-SPEC adhesion, abrasion, and humidity tests.
Contact: [email protected] or 978-263-3584 |
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