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Call for Papers—2017 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
The abstract submission site for the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit is now open. Don’t delay; submit your best work today!
Abstract Submission Deadline—October 13, 2016 |
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FREE WEBINARS—Focus on Sustainability Webinar Series
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CALL FOR PAPERS—JMR Focus Issue
May 2017 Issue
Microstructural Characterization for Emerging Photovoltaic Materials
GUEST EDITORS:
Moritz Riede, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Chris Nicklin, Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom
Dean M. DeLongchamp, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Submission Deadline—October 1, 2016 |
MATERIALS NEWS
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Materials in Focus
Research Highlights: Perovskites
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Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly, with solar-cell efficiencies now at 22%, five times higher than first cells reported in 2009. MRS Bulletin presents the impact of a selection of recent advances in this burgeoning field.
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Microfluidic device replicates connection between muscles and nerves
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Using mouse cells, the device allows scientists to observe and quantitatively measure responses of the muscle cells to the stimulation of the neurons.
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Geometric lattice engineering provides a way to build new topological materials
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Atomically thin sheets of materials, such as layered metal oxides, have interesting electronic and magnetic properties that could make them appealing for quantum computing and new generations of electronics. Geometric lattice engineering makes it possible to build unnatural versions of these atomically thin materials to investigate them for new properties.
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Polymer smart electrolyte protects supercapacitor from overheating
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When Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors quickly charge and discharge, the internal temperature of the devices can spike and possibly cause them to overheat and catch fire. A new polymer electrolyte solution that becomes a gel over a wide range of temperatures has been used to almost completely shut down a coin cell supercapacitor. This is a crucial mechanism to prevent thermal runaway in the devices.
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Energy Focus: New process enables ultrathin, ultraflexible GaAs photovoltaics
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Fabricated through a modified technique for printing solar cells on flexible materials, this PV cell is so flexible that it can bend around a pencil.
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Industry Focus
Why we still don’t have better batteries
Startups with novel chemistries tend to falter before they reach full production.
Energy storage: How an abandoned goldmine will be converted into a world first
Australia has no plan for managing disused mines but a company has a novel solution for producing renewable energy.
Policy Focus
US Senate releases possible successor to America COMPETES
The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act is drafted as a successor to the America COMPETES Act to govern US investment in basic sciences.
Draft of 2016 NNI Strategic Plan open for public comment
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), established in 2001, is a collaboration of 20 Federal agencies and Cabinet-level departments with shared interests in nanotechnology research, development, and commercialization. A draft of its latest Strategic Plan is now available online for public comment prior to publication. Comments are due by September 23, 2016.
For more science policy news, follow @MaterialsSciPol
CORPORATE PARTNER NEWS
CVD graphene on copper foil – Copper foil thickness: 0.035mm; Monolayer thickness: 2-3nm; Film morphology: continuous monolayer >95%
Ultra-clean graphene on SiO2/Si Wafers – Transfer by pressure-sensitive adhesive films
Graphene on PET (shown in photo) – For maximum flexibility
Graphene on quartz glass – Transfer by hot pressing
In addition to standard and non-standard samples, Goodfellow can assist customers with the transfer of graphene film onto their own substrate. Visit MRS Fall Meeting Booth 1012.
When used with compatible probes, frequency extenders, and signal analyzers, the THz probe arm allows users to perform calibrated S-parameter and other high-frequency measurements as a function of low temperature and in high field. The solution offers particular value to researchers developing MMIC, MEMS, LNA, and THz detector devices, and components for radio astronomy and 5G wireless applications.
One or two of the probe arms can be installed on a Lake Shore probe station while the station’s other arm positions can be used for DC, RF, or microwave probing, for up to six simultaneous contact probes. Visit MRS Fall Meeting Booth 501.
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OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY
Will the Li-ion battery industry follow solar photovoltaic’s lead?
The photovoltaic solar industry has grown 58% every year since 2010, as prices for solar panels have dropped 70% in the past decade, mostly due to increased manufacturing. The battery industry seems to be following a similar trajectory.
Hagamos con-Ciencia: Eddie López Honorato takes the lab to the children
Eddie López Honorato of Cinvestav in Satillo, Mexico, has dedicated many of his efforts to improving what he perceives to be a systemic problem in his home country. “In Mexico,” Eddie says, “we don’t have a culture of science outreach. There are very few schools that have the laboratories or resources to organize such activities.”
What’s your materials quotient?
While you are all familiar with the intelligence quotient (IQ) designed by Alfred Binet in 1905, and some of you may be aware of the emotional quotient (EQ) first reported by Michael Beldoch in 1964 and popularized in a book by Daniel Goleman in 1995, few are probably aware of the materials quotient (MQ), no doubt because I just made it up last week.
MEETINGS UPDATE
Critical Meeting Deadlines
PUBLICATIONS UPDATE
Critical Publications Deadlines
JUST PUBLISHED
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Capillary Forces Described by Effective Contact Angle Distributions via Simulations of the Centrifuge Technique |
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Myles Thomasa, Elizabeth Krenek and Stephen Beaudoin, MRS Advances
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Development of a Carbon Fiber Knitted Capacitive Touch Sensor |
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Richard Vallett, Ryan Young, Chelsea Knittel, Youngmoo Kim, Genevieve Dion, MRS Advances
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Hierarchical machining materials and their performance |
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Daria Sidorenko, Pavel Loginov, Evgeny Levashov, and Leon Mishnaevsky, MRS Bulletin
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Hierarchical materials: Background perspectives |
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Leon Mishnaevsky and Michael Tsapatsis, MRS Bulletin
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Phase field modeling of intercalation kinetics: a finite interface dissipation approach |
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Nega A. Zerihun and Ingo Steinbach, MRS Communications
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Ultraviolet optoelectronic devices based on AlGaN alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy |
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Theodore D. Moustakas, MRS Communications |
Bio Focus
Energy Focus
Nano Focus
SCIENCE AS ART
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Sea anemones colored by a clownfish
Susete N. Fernandes
Campus da Caparica, Portugal
Cellulose-based nano filaments, obtained from a diluted solution of a thermotropic liquid crystal, the acetoxypropylcellulose, observed by SEM. Image acquired by S.Fernandes et al. and colored by Nuno Monge
See more from the Science as Art competition at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting.
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EDITOR'S CHOICE VIDEO
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Shielding Technology
KBS News
Global attention is high on technologies that block electromagnetic waves. Now a joint Korean and US research team has introduced a material with electromagnetic-wave shielding technology that is light, cheap and easily processed. |
NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS
Scalable Protocol to Differentiate Skeletal Muscle Cells from Stem Cells |
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AMSBIO announces the availability of the world's first kit to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into functional myotubes. The new kit utilizes a highly efficient media based protocol to produce skeletal muscle cells from stem cells in a simple, scalable manner that offers researchers a unique tool to rapidly differentiate donor stems into functional myotubes in a reproducible fashion.
Contact: [email protected] or 617-945-5033 |
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New Air Chiller System |
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TA Instruments announces the introduction of the ACS-2 Air Chiller System. Following on the tremendous popularity of the ACS-3, the ACS-2 is a mechanical refrigeration system that provides subambient temperature control for mechanical and rheological testing. Paired with a Q800 DMA, Discovery Hybrid Rheometer, ARES-G2 Rheometer, or RSA-G2 Solids Analyzer, the ACS-2 provides reliable temperature control as low as -55°C without the use of liquid nitrogen.
Contact: [email protected] or 302-427-1033 |
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