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	2016 MRS Fall Meeting REMINDERS Preregistration Deadline is 5:00 pm (ET), November 11, 2016. Don’t delay; preregister today to ensure discounted rates.  The FREE MRS Meeting App is now available. Visit mrsfall.zerista.com, or download the mobile app by searching “MRS Fall Meeting” on the app store. Log in with your MRS username and password, then start planning your week!
	FREE WEBINAR— MRS OnDemand® Webinar Wednesdays Metal-Organic Frameworks for Electronics and Photonics Wednesday, November 23, 2016 • 12:00-1:30 pm (ET) The presentations in this webinar will complement the articles in the November 2016 issue of MRS Bulletin. Attendance for this MRS OnDemand Webinar is FREE, but advance registration is required.
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MATERIALS NEWS

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Materials in Focus

Highly customizable 3D-printed material induces bone regeneration
	Though elastic, the biomaterial is printed into architectures that are also strong. A 3D-printed femoral bone could withstand a load of 150 pounds.
Atomically engineered multilayers used to create room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic
	The researchers found that optimum properties came from a repeating sequence comprising a single LuFe2O4 layer on nine LuFeO3 layers.
Nano Focus: Researchers take diamond defect to new depths in magnetic imaging
	With these sensors, researchers now have access to a broader range of magnetic imaging temperatures than previously possible.
Kirigami honeycomb material exhibits a “Poisson’s switch”
	A new class of kirigami cellular materials may find applications in many shape-morphing materials, useful from transportation to civil structures.
Energy Focus: Electric fields help oxygen slip through the cracks for ultralow power electronics
	Energy efficiency is increased in thin-film heterostructures by utilizing electric fields to alter the chemical and magnetic make-up of materials.
Energy Focus: Novel method developed to investigate stiffness and mechanical stress in Li-ion batteries
	Combination of two techniques enables assessment of the kinetic effects of stress and strain and correlates them with device charging and discharging.

People in Focus

Paul Peercy passed away on October 20, 2016 at age 75.
	Paul Peercy was dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering (1999–2013) and president of the not-for-profit consortium of semiconductor equipment manufacturers then known as SEMI/Sematech.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces inaugural Moore Inventor Fellows
The Inaugural Moore Inventor Fellowships go to materials researchers Deji Akinwande (University of Texas, Austin), Shane Ardo (University of California, Irvine), and Xingjie Ni (The Pennsylvania State University), recognizing them as early-career innovators at US universities who have a high potential to accelerate progress in scientific research.

Industry Focus

Leading Chipmakers Eye EUV Lithography to Save Moore’s Law
Intel, TSMC, and other chipmakers weigh extreme ultraviolet lithography, which may be ready by 2018.

Policy Focus

For more science policy news, follow @MaterialsSciPol

CORPORATE PARTNER NEWS

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MEETINGS UPDATE

Featured Events at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting

Several special events will be featured at the upcoming MRS Meeting in Boston. Below are just a few highlights. For a list of all Meeting activities, visit www.mrs.org/fall-2016-activities-events. To receive daily news from the Meeting, subscribe to the Meeting Scene.

Impact of Materials on Society Implementation Workshop – Registration deadline is
November 16, 2016
The course “Impact of Materials on Society” teaches students that engineering shapes and is shaped by social and cultural variables, and that a career in engineering is not only about math and science, but also about social problem-solving. This workshop is designed for instructors who want to implement the course into their curriculum.

Communication Skills for Individual Career Success – Registration deadline is
November 18, 2016
Specific challenges that individuals face while communicating in a professional environment will be highlighted, with the goal to increase participant awareness and capability to be effective in a variety of difficult situations.

Student-Organized Events – Registration deadline is November 22, 2016
This three-day event is composed of four complimentary sub-workshops which will focus heavily on writing for academia and industry. It is sponsored in part by KAUST and KAUST Solar Center, and organized by MRS University Chapter at KAUST, the Student Events Working Group, and the MRS University Chapters Subcommittee.

Chemical Angel Network (CAN) – Monday, November 28 | 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Innovators from Innovation in Materials Science (iMatSci) have been selected to present their products to Chemical Angel Network and corporate investment groups: Printed flexible ferroelectric nanocomposites from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (team members Mahdi Haghzadeh, Alkim Akyurtlu, and Craig Armiento) and Pylux - Flexible display substrates from Ares Materials, Inc. (team members Radu Reit, David Arreaga, and Adrian Avendano). The CAN meeting is open to all interested MRS Meeting attendees.

Critical Meeting Deadlines

PUBLICATIONS UPDATE

Critical Publications Deadlines

JUST PUBLISHED

	Chemical principles for electroactive metal–organic frameworks
	Aron Walsh, Keith T. Butler, and Christopher H. Hendon, MRS Bulletin
	Coupling and competition between ferroelectricity, magnetism, strain, and oxygen vacancies in AMnO3 perovskites
	Astrid Marthinsen, Carina Faber, Ulrich Aschauer, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Sverre M. Selbac, MRS Communications
	Guest molecules as a design element for metal–organic frameworks
	Mark D. Allendorf, Raghavender Medishetty, and Roland A. Fischer, MRS Bulletin
	Intrinsically conducting metal–organic frameworks
	Chanel F. Leong, Pavel M. Usov, and Deanna M. D’Alessandro, MRS Bulletin
	Metal–organic frameworks for electronics and photonics
	Mircea Dincă and François Léonard, MRS Bulletin
	Monolithic integration of perovskites on Ge(001) by atomic layer deposition: a case study with SrHfxTi1−xO3
	Shen Hu, Martin D. McDaniel, Agham Posadas, Chengqing Hu, HsinWei Wu, Edward T. Yu, David J. Smith, Alexander A. Demkov, and John G. Ekerdt, MRS Communications
	Ultrafast Laser Induced Subwavelength Periodic Surface Structures on Semiconductors/Metals and Application to SERS Studies
	V. Saikiran, Mudasir H Dar, R. Kuladeep and Narayana Rao Desai, MRS Advances

Energy Focus

	Nonconventional Materials (NOCMAT) for Ecological and Sustainable Development
	Khosrow Ghavami and Arash Azadeh, MRS Advances
	Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Resistant to pH and Salt for bio-medical applications; Functional activity of organic amine
	Prem C. Pandey and Govind Pandey, Journal of Materials Research

Nano Focus

	Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles (nZVI@ECNFs) for Cr (VI) Remediation in Ground and Waste Water
	Nikhil R. Mucha, Ramesh Ravella, Muchha R. Reddy and Lifeng Zhang, MRS Advances
	Hot Extrusion of Nanocrystalline Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystals
	Tatsuo Kumagai, Journal of Materials Research
	Modifying oxide nanomaterials' properties by hydrogenation
	Xiaodong Yan, Lihong Tian, Xinyu Tan, Minjie Zhou, Lei Liu, and Xiaobo Chen, MRS Communications

SCIENCE AS ART

Photonic Crystal Wendy Nimens University of Utah This is a reflected image of a localized defect in a one-dimensional photonic crystal. The inclusion of a dust particle causes uneven layer thicknesses. These uneven layers reflect an array of vibrant colors. This image was not altered with photoshop. The Image was taken using a modified optical microscope, coupled with a CCD camera. See more from the Science as Art competition at the 2016 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.

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NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS

New Vitrinite Reflectance Measurement System
	Coal is a vital source of energy. The 508 Coal™ is the newest Vitrinite Reflectance Measurement System from CRAIC Technologies and is designed to determine the grade of coal and coke by vitrinite reflectance.  This is used to ensure that the coal blends used in energy generation are optimum and consistent from batch to batch. It can also be used to acquire fluorescence and reflectance spectra of geological samples in order to more accurately grade them. It even offers a Raman microspectroscopy feature for petrographic analysis. Contact: [email protected] or 310-573-8180
Product Catalogue for Thin Films, Plasma and Surface Engineering
	The new Hiden catalogue describes the full range of Hiden mass spectrometry-based products for vacuum coating and etching processes and for surface evaluation studies. Key new products include the UHV Temperature Programmed Desorption System(TPD system) for thermal desorption studies, monitoring desorption of surface species through temperatures to 1000oC. Two new Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Systems—the AutoSIMS and Compact SIMS—provide surface diagnostics to the atomic layer level with a choice of fully automated or manual operation. Contact: [email protected] or 44-1925-445225

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