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  • Materials News
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      • Fractal patterns may be key to semiconductor magnetism
      • Switchable hardening of a ferromagnet at fixed temperature
      • Nanoengineering graphene with oxygen
      • More....

  • Features & Commentary
    Materials articles, reviews and essays

      • Slack nano safety in research labs worldwide
      • The coming materials advances in dentistry
      • Spasers and Nanoplasmonics: A new dawn for optical computing
      • More....

  • Literature Scan
    Highlighted recent materials research papers

      • Portrait of the potential barrier at metalorganic nanocontacts
      • Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials
      • Spontaneous- and X-ray Triggered Crystallization at Long Range in Self-Assembling Filament Networks
      • More....

  • Fun & Newsworthy
    Interesting, popular news reports and features

      • Recharging your cellphone, Mother Nature’s way
      • Say cheese? No, say quantum mechanics
      • New materials may aid in capturing carbon
      • More....

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  • Materials Information
    Sources for materials data and properties

  • Resources & Links
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    • Download MRS Desktop Images



      These images were selected from the MRS "Science as Art" competition held at recent MRS Spring and Fall Meetings. You may download these, courtesy of MRS, to use as computer desktop images, or for a slide-show screen saver.
    • What is Materials Research?
      All about the interdisciplinary field of materials research