MRS in the News—2022 Archives

This month, Steven Spurgeon’s research is featured in the cover of the MRS Bulletin, the flagship journal of the Materials Research Society, along with his team’s invited perspective on the future of machine learning for electron and scanning probe microscopy.

Researchers have facilitated the decoupling of power from energy design by incorporating a conducting carbon slurry in the negative electrolyte of an all-iron flow battery. In a new study, they describe the design considerations for slurry iron redox flow battery scalability.

Various exotic phenomena have emerged due to topological defects (TDs) in diverse fields of materials and biological sciences. Intriguing functionality in materials includes the domain wall’s ability to host dynamic electrons, making the domain walls electrically conductive and superconductive.

Nick Holonyak Jr., whose development in 1962 of the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, or LED, proved a breakthrough that now has countless practical applications, including lightbulbs, mobile phones, TV sets and microscopic surgical equipment that can save lives, died Sept. 18 in Urbana, Ill. He was 93.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University's vice president for research.

Research excellence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was on display at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting. Experts from the College of Engineering, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) and Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) delivered presentations about the successes of research at UH as well as future opportunities that UH has to offer within the field of materials science. 

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, a Pennsylvania State University professor of materials science and engineering and energy and geo-environmental engineering, has been awarded the Material Research Society's (MRS) 2022 Impact Award for his contributions toward building a global materials science and engineering community.

Prof. Ceder and his students present their work on various topics, including the design of lithium-ion conductors for solid-state batteries, new Ca-ion conductors for solid-state batteries, and computational and machine learning approaches for analyzing disordered rocksalt cathode materials, and more.

Prineha Narang, Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award for her outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research.

Molly Stevens has been awarded the 2022 Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society.

Alexandra Boltasseva, MRS Fellow and professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Cherese Winstead, Member of the Materials Research Society, was named a Member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Materials Research Society’s Journal of Materials Research. He will succeed Gary L. Messing, who is to retire this month.

Carolyn Duran, 2022 MRS President, is profiled in this Intel blog.

Mihri Ozkan, University of California, Riverside, a 2021 MRS Fall Meeting symposium organizer, discusses research on using carbon capture to fight climate change that was shared at the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting.

Jim De Yoreo, who served as MRS President in 2011, was recognized for his “advances in materials synthesis from nucleation to large-scale crystal growth.”

A new study published in MRS Communications has demonstrated that AMSilk engineered vegan spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and reduce post-operative complications of implants.

Thomas P. Russell, an MRS Fellow, discusses the first self-driven, aqueous robot that works nonstop without electricity, inspired by the natural behavior of water-walking insects.

A study published in MRS Communications in June 2021 demonstrates that AMSilk engineered spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and to reduce post-operative complications of implants.

AMSilk, a supplier of bio-based silk materials, has noted a study published in MRS Communications which demonstrates that AMSilk engineered spider silk coatings have the potential to prevent inflammation and to reduce post-operative complications of implants.

In an article recently published in the journal MRS Energy & Sustainability, researchers discussed the opportunities and problems related to the integration of the international circular (bio)economy concept with the development of sustainable polymer materials.

POSTECH Ph.D. candidate Jeonghoon Park in the Department of Mechanical Engineering recently won a Best Poster Award at the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting.

Aaswath Raman has been elected as a 2022 senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. Raman is the 2018 Recipient of the MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Award.

Anna Balazs, an MRS Fellow, is the first Swanson School faculty elected to both National Academies of Engineering and Science.

Shirley Meng, Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability, has been elected as a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory‘s work on consumables for COVID-19 testing was highlighted in a recent special issue of the MRS Bulletin focusing on materials science innovation in response to the pandemic.

Researchers around the world are racing to develop more efficient, denser, and safer battery technology, and they are reaching far beyond where research has gone before.

Nature Reviews Materials speaks to Gopal Rao, Chief Editor of Technical Content for MRS and Editor of MRS Bulletin, to find out what pandemic-era conference planning is like.

For the first time, the MRS Fall Meeting went hybrid, posing new opportunities and challenges for organizers, speakers and attendees. 

The Society of Engineering Science James R. Rice Medal was awarded to Markus Buehler. Buehler is the MRS Bulletin Impact Editor and was a 2021 MRS Fall Meeting Chair.

Speaking at the Prof CNR Rao Prize lecture, Satish Ogale said many unexplored areas in material sciences and energy had the potential for wide applications in the mobility sector. The prize is presented by the Materials Research Society of India.