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MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

CRISPR: Implications for materials science
	This new technology should have implications outside the life sciences, in particular for the design and synthesis of new materials.
Graphene coating protects silicate glass from water-induced corrosion
	Graphene coating of glass may work primarily by inhibiting the exchange of hydrogen ions with sodium ions at different depths in the glass.
Bio Focus: Stretchable silver nanowire microelectrodes show promise for studying cell functions
	The size of the electrodes enables precise spatial control of electrical fields and the fabrication method is user-friendly and inexpensive.
Energy Focus: Novel method developed to investigate stiffness and mechanical stress in Li-ion batteries
	Combination of two techniques enables assessment of the kinetic effects of stress and strain and correlates them with device charging and discharging.
Energy Focus: Electric fields help oxygen slip through the cracks for ultralow power electronics
	Energy-efficiency is increased in thin film heterostructures by utilizing electric fields to alter the chemical and magnetic make-up of materials.

People in Focus

Charles M. Lieber receives 2016 Von Hippel Award
	Charles M. Lieber of Harvard University has received the Von Hippel Award for “pioneering contributions to nanoscience, defining the foundations of rational synthesis of nanoscale wires, characterization of their fundamental physical properties, and the development of applications of these materials in chemistry, biology and medicine.”
James De Yoreo receives 2016 David Turnbull Lectureship
	The Materials Research Society’s (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship Award recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by the late David Turnbull of Harvard University. James De Yoreo of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is honored “for discoveries that have shaped our understanding of crystallization science.”
Robert J. Cava selected for the 2016 MRS Medal
	Robert J. Cava of Princeton University has received the 2016 MRS Medal. He is cited for “pioneering contributions in the discovery of new classes of 3D Topological Insulators.”
Gerbrand Ceder to receive 2016 Materials Theory Award
	The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Gerbrand Ceder of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as the 2016 recipient of the Materials Theory Award for “seminal contributions to the emerging field of computationally guided materials exploiting high-throughput computation and promoting the development of open databases to enable widespread use. ”The Materials Theory Award is endowed by Toh-Ming Lu and Gwo Ching Wang.
Ellen D. Williams named to receive the 2016 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science
	Ellen D. Williams, Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in the U.S. Department of Energy, will present her lecture in the Plenary session at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting on Nov. 28.
Andrea Alù named to receive the 2016 Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
	Andrea Alù of The University of Texas at Austin will present his lecture at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting on Dec. 1.

Industry Focus

Intel’s Carolyn Duran ensures conflict-free minerals supply chain
She traced the tangled supply chain to ethically source tantalum, tin, and tungsten—critical materials widely used in microprocessor technologies.

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OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY


High-entropy alloys: An interview with Jien-Wei Yeh
Jien-Wei Yeh of National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan—one of the pioneers in the field of multicomponent alloys who defined high-entropy alloys—shares his insights on the field in an interview with N. Balasubramanian of Bangalore. 

Student-led companies expand the nanotechnology innovation ecosystem
Innovation and entrepreneurship are engines of the economy. As such, they are central to the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and its mission to expedite the discovery, development, and deployment of nanoscale science to serve the public good.

Fantastic materials
Unobtainium: It can manifest as a gas, solid, or liquid, and has a phase diagram unlike any that you’ve ever seen. It can be a conductor or an insulator. It can have an atomic number anywhere between zero and a Googleplex, including non-integer values.

MEETINGS UPDATE


Professional Development Opportunities at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting

Several special events will be featured at the upcoming MRS Meeting in Boston. Below are just a few highlights. For a list of all Meeting activities, visit www.mrs.org/fall-2016-activities-events. To receive daily news from the Meeting, subscribe to the Meeting Scene.

Science Communication Panel
Sunday, November 27  |  1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
This panel will discuss how materials researchers can leverage social media as a networking tool as well as a way to promote their work through the press.

Thriving in Diverse Research Groups Workshop
Monday, November 28  |  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This discussion panel and workshop will provide attendees with an opportunity to increase their understanding of equity and diversity issues so that they can create more inclusive environments—in their home lives, academia, and throughout their career.

Incorporating Sustainability Principles into Your Research
Monday, November 28 and Tuesday, November 29  |  8:30 am – 10:00 am
Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge and co-founder of Granta Design, Tatiana Vakhitova, Development Manager and Sustainability Specialist at Granta Design, Ltd., and Alan Rae, Executive Director of IncubatorWorks Inc., will offer two seminars on this innovative approach to sustainable materials research.

Critical Meeting Deadlines

JUST PUBLISHED

	A design methodology for phosphor mixtures for tunable spectrum LEDs
	Partha S. Dutta and Kathryn M. Liotta, MRS Advances
	Ferromagnetic oxide heterostructures on silicon
	Srinivasa Rao Singamaneni, J.T. Prater, Fan Wu, and J. Narayan, MRS Communications
	Metal–organic frameworks for thermoelectric energy-conversion applications
	A. Alec Talin, Reese E. Jones, and Patrick E. Hopkins, MRS Bulletin
	Zeolite Modified Vanadium Pentoxide Sensors for the Selective Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
	David C. Pugh and Ivan P. Parkin, MRS Advances

	Skin-inspired organic electronic materials and devices
	Zhenan Bao, MRS Bulletin
	Tailoring super-hydrophobic properties of electrochemical biosensor for early cancer detection
	Natalia Malara, Francesco Gentile, Lorenzo Ferrara, Marco Villani, Salvatore Iannotta, Andrea Zappettini, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Valentina Trunzo, Vincenzo Mollace and Nicola Coppedé, MRS Advances

Energy Focus

	Clean superconductivity in electron doped Pr2−xCexCuO4+δ thin films hetero-epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 by reactive molecular beam epitaxy
	Ai Ikeda, Hiroshi Irie, Hideki Yamamoto, and Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Journal of Materials Research
	Mechanical Stresses at the Cathode-Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-ion Batteries
	Sangwook Kim and Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, Journal of Materials Research
	Metal–organic framework photophysics: Optoelectronic devices, photoswitches, sensors, and photocatalysts
	Ekaterina A. Dolgopolova and Natalia B. Shustova, MRS Bulletin
	Nanoparticles for Light Management in Ultra-thin Chalcopyrite Solar Cells
	Martina Schmid, Phillip Manley, Andreas Ott, Min Song, and Guanchao Yin, Journal of Materials Research
	Nano-scale Compositional Analysis of Surfaces and Interfaces in Earth-abundant Kesterite Solar Cells
	Kasra Sardashti, Dennis Paul, Chuck Hitzman, John Hammond, Richard Haight, and Andrew C. Kummel, Journal of Materials Research
	Redox-active metal–organic frameworks as electrode materials for batteries
	Zhongyue Zhang and Kunio Awaga, MRS Bulletin

	Atom probe tomography of phosphorus- and boron-doped silicon nanocrystals with various compositions of silicon rich oxide
	Keita Nomoto, Sebastian Gutsch, Anna V. Ceguerra, Andrew Breen, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minoru Fujii, Ivan Perez-Wurfl, Simon P. Ringer, and Gavin Conibeer, MRS Communications
	Non-linearity variation of single junctions and its analysis using nano-prober within fine-grained ZnO-based multilayer varistors
	Eiichi Koga and Yoshiko Higashi, MRS Communications

SCIENCE AS ART

Catching the Wave Jan Valenta, Charles University Technique: Reflected-light interference imaging. Membranes of transparent liquid mixtures are visualized using interference of light from an extended white source. The heterogeneity of a mixture is revealed as color variations. Here the thickness of a membrane is of the order of hundreds of nanometers and the width of picture corresponds to about 1 mm. See more from the Science as Art competition at the 2016 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

CAREER CENTRAL

Partial listing of classified ads from the December 2016 issue of MRS Bulletin

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

City University of Hong Kong
Chair Professor/Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Materials Science

Technische Universität Darmstadt
Full Professorship, Materials Engineering and Resource Management

University of Akron
Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering

University of Connecticut
Full/Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Vanderbilt University  
Faculty Position, Experimental Nanoscience and Condensed Matter Physics 

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