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MRS Meeting Scene Postscript
Bringing you the very best of MRS
From tissue engineering to environmental nanotechnology, the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting, held last month in Boston, brought together over 5,100 attendees from all sectors of the global materials science and engineering communities. Over 4,700 oral and poster presentations from 42 technical symposia were featured. The Meeting Chairs, Yang-Tse Cheng, David S. Ginley, Kathryn E. Uhrich, and Ralf B. Wehrspohn, are to be commended and congratulated for putting together an outstanding technical program.
Meeting Chair Y-T. Cheng stands next
to the GM fuel cell car on display at
the Fall Meeting
MRS ANNOUNCES TOP FIVE LIST from the 2005 Fall Meeting
Five presentations that stand out as “hot talks/cool papers”! The following five presentations were selected as the Top 5 Hot Talks/Cool Papers of the week … for research that translates to general public interest or applications. Potential hot talks/cool papers were identified by the Fall Meeting symposium organizers; the Top 5 were selected from this group by the MRS Public Outreach Committee (POC). Although not a formal competition, this service of the POC is intended to increase awareness of materials research and its importance in our everyday lives.
Number 1: Best paper
EE1.5
IV-VI Semiconductor Mid-IR Lasers
Patrick John McCann1 and Yurii Selivanov 2 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; 2 P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation.
“New semiconductor laser materials that detect nitric oxide on your breath to enable early asthma diagnosis. Future uses could include the detection of exhaled markers for ulcers, kidney function, and cancer.”
Contact author: Patrick McCann, University of Oklahoma (pmccann@ou.edu)
Number 2:
KK8.3
Composition and Electronic Structure of Buried Interfaces and Point Defects Imaged at the Atomic Scale
David A. Muller, Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
“The ability to measure nanometer scale changes in the bonding of atoms at interfaces is enabling scientists to develop new materials for everything from aircraft to computers”
Contact author: David Muller, Cornell University (davidm@ccmr.cornell.edu)
Number 3:
D1.5
Design and Fabrication of High Performance OLEDs for Lighting Applications
Junji Kido, Polymer Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan; Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Organic Electronics, Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan.
“Newly developed materials based on small organic molecules have led to large area organic light emitting diodes (OLED's), which can operate at high brightness for more than 3 years of continuous operation and are to be implemented as an alternative lighting source for offices.”
Contact author: Junji Kido Yamagata University (Japan) (kid@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp)
Number 4:
DD3.2
Amorphous Multi-component Heavy Metal Cation Oxides for Thin-Film Transistor Applications
John Wager, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
“Record electrical properties in a new class of semiconducting materials based on amorphous oxides involving heavy metals such as zinc, indium, and tin were reported and these materials show tremendous promise for use in flexible, wearable transparent electronics applications”
Contact Author: John Wager, Oregon State University (jfw@ece.orst.edu)
Number 5:
L13.1
Analysis and Design of Novel Electrospun PEUU Scaffolds for Soft Tissue Engineering
Michael Sacks, Todd Courtney, John Stankus, Jinjuan Guan and William R. Wagner; Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“A new method of producing artificial heart valves that more closely mimic the properties of natural heart valves was demonstrated using novel electrospinning of polyester (urethane) ureas materials”
Contact Author: Michael Sacks, University of Pittsburgh (msacks@pitt.edu)
MRS President Dave Eaglesham and
Plenary speaker Robert Langer
SPECIAL EVENTS
Two special events at the Fall Meeting received considerable attention - the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge and the Wearables Runway show.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge
The competition heats up!
Students from a number of local area high schools participated in the MRS Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car challenge, a hands-on, active learning experience about hydrogen, fuel cells, and car building, from experts in these fields.
Cumberland High School from Cumberland, Rhode Island, captured top place in the challenge. E.O. Smith High School from Storrs, Connecticut, took second and Norwell High School from Norwell, Massachusetts, came in third. There were 25 entries in the model car competition sponsored by MRS, General Motors (GM), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
One of the fuel cell model car challenge
entries crosses the finish line.
Wearables Runway – A Revolution in Textiles
The models take a bow
Students from various MRS student chapters strutted their stuff in fabrics engineered for fashionable and/or practical purposes. Among the fashionable were the glowing models in lightning jackets, which are half tank tops sewn with optical fibers that carry light from LEDs throughout the entire jacket.
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POST-MEETING NOTES
We hope you enjoyed reading the daily “Meeting Scene” e-mails from the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting. We welcome your feedback and comments.
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One of the competing teams at the
fuel cell model car challenge focused on
building their car
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MRS models aka student chapter representatives
model
adjustable clothing
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Easily visible firefighters outfits with
special nonskid pads on knees and
shoulders at the wearables runway show
UPCOMING MRS MEETINGS
2006 MRS Spring Meeting
April 17 - 21, 2006
San Francisco, California
• Symposia
ICNDST-11 and the 9th ADC
The Joint International Conference on New Diamond Science and Technology and the Applied Diamond Conference
May 15 - 18, 2006
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
• Topics
• Hotel Info
2006 MRS Fall Meeting
November 27 - December 1, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
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