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	2017 MRS Spring Meeting—Preregistration is Open Preregistration for the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in Phoenix, Arizona is open. Don't delay. Register today and save! Join in the conversation with Meeting attendees by following #S17MRS on Facebook and Twitter. Preregistration Deadline—5:00 pm (ET), March 31
	FREE WEBINAR—Stretchable and Ultraflexible Organic Electronics Wednesday, February 22  |  12:00 – 1:30 pm (ET) SPEAKERS: Martin Kaltenbrunner, Johannes Kepler University, and Darren Lipomi, University of California, San Diego HOST: Brendan O'Connor, North Carolina State University Sponsored by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (Sigma-Aldrich Materials Science) Register today. Attendance for this and all MRS OnDemand Webinars is FREE, but advance registration is required.
	CALL FOR PAPERS—November 2017 JMR Special Focus Issue Jan van der Merwe: Epitaxy and the Computer Age To honor the contributions of Jan van der Merwe, the issue will highlight latest developments in epitaxy, with the focus on the fundamental materials science and the past, present, and future of the field. Submit by April 1.

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Materials in Focus

Transistor-like nanoprobes detect tumors and help guide surgery
	The nanoprobes were able to detect and image a broad range of tumors in mice and allow for real-time image-guided tumor surgery.
Multicolor electron microscopy paints multiple cellular structures
	Lanthanide ions provide unique signals to identify two different cellular structures using multicolor electron microscopy.
Bio Focus: Twisting and coiling design of polymer fibers better mimics muscles
	The fibers, made of a chemically crosslinked poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate), offer significantly higher tensile actuation than previously developed fibers.
Nano Focus: Proton irradiation enhances critical features simultaneously in iron-based superconductors
	Researchers succeeded in enhancing two counteracting properties of iron-based superconductors, which is very important for applications.

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JUST PUBLISHED

	Elastic substrates for stretchable devices
	Dianpeng Qi, Zhiyuan Liu, Wan Ru Leow, and Xiaodong Chen, MRS Bulletin
	First-principles study of structural, elastic and thermodynamic properties of Ni-Sn-P intermetallics
	Yali Tian and Ping Wu, Journal of Materials Research
	Ion Beam Etch for Patterning of Resistive RAM (ReRAM) Devices
	Narasimhan Srinivasan, Katrina Rook, Ivan Berry, Binyamin Rubin and Frank Cerio, MRS Advances
	Morphological considerations of organic electronic films for flexible and stretchable devices
	Brendan T. O’Connor, Omar M. Awartani, and Nrup Balar, MRS Bulletin
	On the determination of Young's modulus of thin films with Impulse Excitation Technique
	M.F. Slim, A. Alhussein, A. Billard, F. Sanchette and M. François, Journal of Materials Research
	Semi-solid slurry preparation, rheo-die casting and rheo-squeeze casting of an AZ91-2Ca-1.5Ce ignition-proof magnesium alloy by gas bubbling process
	Jimei Mao, Wencai Liu, Guohua Wu, Jianfeng Fan, Daqiang Cheng, Guangling Wei, Liang Zhang, Wenjiang Ding and Chaoying Xie, Journal of Materials Research
	Strategies for stretchable polymer semiconductor layers
	Kaliannan Thiyagarajan and Unyong Jeong, MRS Bulletin
	Stretchable and ultraflexible organic electronics
	Darren J. Lipomi and Zhenan Bao, MRS Bulletin

Energy Focus

	Efficiency enhanced solar cells with a Cu2O homojunction grown epitaxially on p-Cu2O:Na sheets by electrochemical deposition
	Tadatsugu Minami, Jouji Yamazaki and Toshihiro Miyata, MRS Communications
	Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Tin Sulfide Nanoparticles by Indium Doping
	Farid Jamali-Sheini, Mohsen Cheraghizade, Farhad Niknia and Ramin Yousefi, MRS Communications
	The challenge of energy-efficient transportation
	Jo Hermans, MRS Energy & Sustainability

Nano Focus

	Electronically Pure Single Chirality Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube for Large Scale Electronic Devices
	Huaping Li, MRS Advances
	Extremely Uniform Epitaxial Growth of Graphene from Sputtered SiC Films on SiC Substrates
	Fuminori Mitsuhashi, Masaya Okada, Yasunori Tateno, Takashi Nakabayashi, Masaki Ueno, Hiroyuki Nagasawa, Hirokazu Fukidome and Maki Suemitsu, MRS Advances
	Water-Dispersible Near-Infrared Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals-Immobilization on Substrate
	Takashi Kanno, Shinya Kano, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yasuhiro Tada and Minoru Fujii, MRS Communications

SCIENCE AS ART

Breaking the Symmetry! Aleks Labuda, Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company This photograph represents a snapshot of the dynamic response of a ferrofluid to an intricate magnetic field distribution over a silicon wafer. A ferrofluids contains magnetic nanoparticles that are suspensed indefintely in solution. A Second Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2016 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.

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