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	CALL FOR PAPERS—2018 MRS Spring Meeting 2018 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit April 2-6, 2018  |  Phoenix, Arizona Abstract Submission Deadline 5:00 pm (ET), Tuesday, October 31 Learn more »
	2017 MRS Fall Meeting – Preregistration is Open Register today and save! Preregistration Deadline 5:00 pm (ET), Friday, November 10 Join in the conversation with Meeting attendees by following #F17MRS on Facebook and Twitter.
	Congratulations to Andy Tay, Stanford University! Inaugural Recipient of the MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publications Prize Ping was selected from 120 applicants/nominations for “his combination of outstanding academic credentials, scientific publications and science communication efforts”. The award will be presented at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting.

MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

Quantum materials: Where many paths meet
	The scope of quantum materials includes well-advertised materials such as superconductors and graphene, along with ones with less familiar names: topological insulators, Weyl semimetals, quantum spin liquids, and spin ices.
Electrocaloric polymer serves as pocket-size cooling device
	This 6-mm-thick flexible band-aid-sized device can cool a battery by 8°C.
X-ray nanotomography reveals 3D internal magnetization structure
	New x-ray tomography technique reveals the 3D magnetization structure within a bulk sample for the first time.
Tungsten nanocrystalline alloys developed for extreme environment applications
	Scientists design nanostructured tungsten alloy films alloyed with Ti and Cr to meet performance requirements for fusion reactor applications.
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy measures nanosecond fluctuations in magnetic skyrmions
	This technique will enable a significant new area of research on the study of equilibrium fluctuations in condensed matter.
Organic semiconductor, human kidney cell combine for wireless physiology
	The interface hinges on obtaining an extremely close and high surface-area contact.
Laser design emits multicolor light
	Nanoparticle microarrays allow control over multiple wavelengths.
Bio Focus: Graphene-based composites achieve microstructural order at atomic scale
	The atomistic tunability of 2D layer spacing is a major advantage of using tandem repeat proteins in graphene-based molecular composites.
Bio Focus: Graphene-based composites achieve microstructural order at atomic scale
	A new twist for spider dragline silk.

People in Focus

Weiss, Barish, and Thorne named 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics
	Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne share the prize “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
Dubochet, Frank, and Henderson named 2017 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
	Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson share the prize for “developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.”

Policy Focus

Industry Focus

Chinese car maker invests in Australian lithium miner
Move by big SUV manufacturer shows interest in securing battery raw material supplies.

Intel presents 17-qubit superconducting chip with advanced packaging
Intel’s 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing has unique features for improved connectivity and better electrical and thermo-mechanical performance.


MEETINGS UPDATE

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

JUST PUBLISHED

	Chemistry at high pressure: Tuning functional materials properties
	Paolo Postorino and Lorenzo Malavasi, MRS Bulletin
	Computational Modeling of High-Entropy Alloys: Structures, Thermodynamics and Elasticity
	Michael C. Gao, Pan Gao, Jeffrey A. Hawk, Lizhi Ouyang, David E. Alman and Mike Widom, Journal of Materials Research
	Insight into the influence of alloying elements on mechanical and thermodynamic properties of Nb3Si: A first-principles calculations
	Yong Pan and Yuanhua Lin, Journal of Materials Research
	Materials under pressure
	Anita Zeidler and Wilson A. Crichton, MRS Bulletin
	New states of matter and chemistry at extreme pressures: Low-Z extended solid
	Choong-Shik Yoo, MRS Bulletin
	Novel Field Effect Transistor Fabrication Based on Non-Graphene 2D Materials
	Yu-Tao Li, Hai-Ming Zhao, He Tian, Peng-Zhi Shao, Xin Xin, Hui-Wen Cao, Ning-Qin Deng, Yi Yang and Tian-Ling Ren, MRS Advances
	Plastic deformation of materials under pressure
	Philippe Carrez and Patrick Cordier, MRS Bulletin
	Stable room-temperature micron-scale crack growth in single-crystalline silicon
	Martin Guillermo Mueller, Goran Žagar and Andreas Mortensen, Journal of Materials Research

Bio Focus

	Next Generation Tissue Engineering of Orthopedic Soft Tissue-to-Bone Interfaces
	Alexander J. Boys, Mary Clare McCorry, Scott Rodeo, Lawrence J. Bonassar and Lara A. Estroff, MRS Communications
	The Influence of Cellular Debris on Cell Guidance and Implications for Incorporating Silicon Based Micropatterns
	Delphine Dean, Katherine Hafner, Xue Chen, Brian Kirkland, Theresa Hafner and Marian S. Kennedy, MRS Advances
	The Need for Advanced 3D Neural Models and Developing Enabling Technologies
	Daniel Merryweather and Paul Roach, MRS Communications
	Three-dimensional neuronal cell culture: in pursuit of novel treatments for neurodegenerative disease
	Sarah-Sophia D. Carter, Xiao Liu, Zhilian Yue and Gordon G. Wallace, MRS Communications
	Towards Novel Graphene-Enabled Diagnostic Assays with Improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio
	Savannah J. Afsahi, Lauren E. Locascio, Deng Pan, Yingning Gao, Amy E. Walker, Francie E. Barron, Brett R. Goldsmith and Mitchell B. Lerner, MRS Advances

SCIENCE AS ART

Floral Clothes at Nano Scale
Md Nadim Ferdous Hoque, Texas Tech University

Colored SEM image obtained from Molybdenum Sulfide nanosheets grown on carbonized bacterial cellulose nanofibers.

See more from the Science as Art competition at the 2017 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

William Olson of Seagate on materials industry and sustainability
MRS Bulletin Material Matters

“You can design [a product] for the next step. You can design so it can be easily dissembled. You can design for it to be easily made for something else.”

MRS Bulletin’s Anke Weidenkaff from the University of Stuttgart talks with William Olson, who is responsible for product sustainability at Seagate Technologies located in the greater Chicago area. The interview took place at the 2016 MRS Meeting in Phoenix.

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

High-energy UV Lamp
	McPherson announces new and improved stability with the flow controlled McPherson windowless, hollow cathode UV lamp Model 629. Read more »
Reference Ellipsometer for Thin Film Measurements
	The UVISEL Plus from HORIBA Scientific is a modular ellipsometer which includes the newest acquisition technology designed to measure thin film samples faster, and more accurately than ever. Read more »

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