IN FOCUS

	2017 MRS Fall Meeting REMINDERS Last chance to save! Preregistration Deadline is 5:00 pm (ET), November 10. Preregister today to ensure discounted rates.  Download the FREE MRS Meeting App Log in with your MRS username and password then start planning your week!
	FREE WEBINAR—Catalysts for Nanocarbon Growth Wednesday, November 22 | 12:00-1:30 p.m. (ET) Hosted by Boris Yakobson, Rice University Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific Register today »
	CALL FOR NOMINATIONS— MRS Communications Lecture Award! The Lecture Award recognizes excellence in materials research through work published in MRS Communications. The senior author of the chosen paper will be invited to present a lecture about the related research at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit. Download and complete your nomination form today! NOMINATION DEADLINE—January 19.

MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

Surprising force patterns and deformation waves discovered at tissue boundaries
	Long-lived and long-ranged mechanical events play a role in keeping tissues apart.
Fillable microparticles designed to achieve single-injection vaccines
	For their microparticle, the team decided to go with a cube-like “coffee cup” design with a separate lid that is sealed after the cup is filled.
Shattering the myth of fast-flowing medieval glass
	Research reveals that medieval glass has a significantly lower viscosity than thought, but still not fast enough for humans to observe its flow.

Policy Focus

Materials Minute Podcast
Report on recent hearing by the US House Science Committee on quantum materials.


MEETINGS UPDATE

Featured Events at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting

Several special events will be featured at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Below are just a few highlights. To receive daily news from the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting, subscribe to the Meeting Scene, or visit 2017 MRS Fall Meeting Activities & Events.

Special Workshop on Nanomaterials and Their Applications
Monday, November 27 | 8:00 am – 5:15 pm
Join us as we honor “Professor Millie Dresselhaus for Her Lifelong Contribution and Impact to Materials Research”.

Materials Needs for Energy Sustainability by 2050—The Role of the Circular Materials Economy
Tuesday, November 28 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
MRS will convene top experts to discuss the role of the circular economy in bringing about energy sustainability by 2050, including related materials science challenges and socioeconomic and policy factors. The special program will include audience Q&A as well as real-time interactive audience polling using your smartphone.  Advance registration requested.  Space is limited.

Late Breaking News—U.S. Metamaterials Manufacturing: Key R&D Priorities
and Action Items
Wednesday, November 29 | 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Join this panel of manufacturers, leading academic researchers and government agencies as they offer recommendations to address the challenges and opportunities of metamaterial manufacturing in the United States. They will share insights from a recently-released report produced by MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight in conjunction with Dr. Chris Spadaccini.

Frontiers of Materials Research—National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Town Hall Meeting
Wednesday, November 29 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Take part in this Town Hall Meeting as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine seek community input for a study on the future of materials research.

Quantum Materials Special Session
Wednesday, November 29 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
This session will be held in conjunction with Symposium EM08—Emerging Materials for Quantum Information.

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

JUST PUBLISHED

	Interaction between semicoherent interfaces and Volterra-type dislocations in dissimilar anisotropic materials
	Aurélien Vattré and Ernian Pan, Journal of Materials Research
	Kinetic Study of the Growth of Hard Layers on a Low Carbon Steel
	Daniel S. Huerta, E.D. García Bustos, D.V. Melo Máximo and M. Flores Martinez, MRS Advances
	Palladium Germanides for Mid- and Long-Wave Infrared Plasmonics
	Evan M. Smith, William H. Streyer, Nima Nader, Shivashankar Vangala, Richard Soref, Daniel Wasserman and Justin W. Cleary, MRS Advances
	Two-dimensional Frank - van der Merwe growth of functional oxide and nitride thin film superlattices by pulsed laser deposition
	Michael Lorenz, Haoming Wei, Florian Jung, Stefan Hohenberger, Holger Hochmuth, Marius Grundmann, Christian Patzig, Susanne Selle and Thomas Höche, Journal of Materials Research
	Ultrathin oxide films: Epitaxy at the two-dimensional limit
	Thomas Obermüller, Nassar Doudin, David Kuhness, Svetlozar Surnev and Falko P. Netzer, Journal of Materials Research

Bio Focus

	Microgels Derived from Different Forms of Carrageenans, Kappa, Iota, and Lambda for Biomedical Applications
	Nurettin Sahiner, Selin Sagbas and Selahattin Yılmaz, MRS Advances
	Modulated nitric oxide delivery in three-dimensional biomaterials for vascular functionality
	Zuyong Wang, Feng Wen, Rongkai Zhang and Qinyuan Zhang, MRS Communications
	Three-dimensional nanofiber scaffolds with arrayed holes for engineering skin tissue constructs
	Lina Fu, Jingwei Xie, Mark A. Carlson and Debra A. Reilly, MRS Communications
	Tissue engineering toward organ-specific regeneration and disease modeling
	Christian Mandrycky, Kiet Phong, and Ying Zheng, MRS Communications

Energy Focus

	Energy in buildings—Policy, materials and solutions
	Matthias M. Koebel, Jannis Wernery and Wim J. Malfait, MRS Energy & Sustainability

SCIENCE AS ART

It's beautiful when everything falls into line...
Andrew Minor, University of California, Berkeley

Optical image of microtomed polymer beads floating on water, by Nathan Velez & Andy Minor.

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

Vladimir Matias of iBeam on innovation
MRS Bulletin Material Matters

“One doesn’t always know where basic research will lead to.”

MRS Bulletin’s Sabrina Sartori, from the University of Oslo, talks with Vladimir Matias, founder of iBeam Materials, Inc., on innovation.

NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

Flow Chemistry System for Heterogeneous Catalysis
	An optimized flow chemistry system for heterogeneous catalysis applications, the FlowLab Column™ from Uniqsis is designed to provide highly efficient mixing, excellent control over reaction parameters and unmatched performance. Read more »
Polyvalent Hyperspectral Imager
	The GRAND-EOS is a new polyvalent Hyperspectral Imager developed by Photon etc. that combines micro and macro modalities with both VNIR (400-1000 nm) and SWIR (900-1700 nm) spectral ranges. Read more »

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