BIOLOGICAL, BIOMEDICAL, BIOMATERIALS | CHARACTERIZATION

Barbs of a feather support flight together
Feathers hold a wealth of architectural secrets that could inspire the design of feathered planes and mitigate disaster during earthquakes.

ENERGY 

Episode: Can metal-halide perovskite solar cells be used for concentrated PV devices?
Researchers found that the efficiency of their device went up from 21.1% to a peak of 23.6% when simulated sunlight was increased to 14 times the standard irradiance of 1 Sun.
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

POLYMERS & SOFT MATERIALS   

Chemical conversion of plastic waste into fuel
Researchers convert polyolefin waste into a wide range of valuable products, including polymers, naphtha (a mixture of hydrocarbons), or clean fuels.

BIOLOGICAL, BIOMEDICAL, BIOMATERIALS | ENGINEERING

A perspective on bio-inspired interfacial systems for solar clean-water generation
Bio-inspired engineering and biotemplate-directed engineering for clean water generation, including desalination, decontamination, and disinfection, is addressed by Rui Feng, Yiming Qiao, and Chengyi Song. 
MRS Communications

NANOSCIENCE & NANOMATERIALS  

Advanced manufacturing using nanoscale 3D printing
Advanced manufacturing methods are expected to complement and fill in critical gaps of traditional methods. 

MRS NEWS 

Apply for a Postdoc Hardship Registration Grant Today!
A limited number of Postdoc Hardship Registration Grants are available for the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in Phoenix. Grants will reimburse half of the pre-registration fee.

Submission Deadline—5:00 pm (ET), April 5

OPTOELECTRONICS & PHOTONICS

OLED manufacturing on flexible substrates towards roll-to-roll fabrication
Dongxiang Wang, Jacqueline Hauptmann, and Christian May outline the present status of roll-to-roll organic light-emitting diode fabrication on ultra-thin glass with the focus on transparent OLED devices and how to perform segmentation by printing of silver- and dielectric pastes.   
MRS Advances

EDUCATION, POLICY, SOCIETY  

US National Science Foundation info webinar for Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes
NSF will outline the goals of, and proposal-submission requirements for, the new program on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time; GMT-05:00).  

ELECTRONICS | QUANTUM MATERIALS   

Electrons trapped in a quantum fractal 
Fractals might just have the capacity to revolutionize modern electronics as we know it. 

ENERGY 

Global energy trends: Demands for scientific innovation
Brenda Shaffer discusses demands placed on innovation from major emerging trends in global energy such as the growing volumes and consumption of natural gas and of renewables. 
MRS Energy & Sustainability

EDUCATION, POLICY, SOCIETY   

City with a conscience: Dubai's desert utopia
Dubai creates a community at the forefront of environmentalism and sustainability.

MRS NEWS 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS—MRS Awards
Find out more about the MRS Awards Program and how you can nominate a colleague today!

Deadline—April 1, 2019

EDUCATION, POLICY, SOCIETY   

How Alan Alda is helping scientists translate jargon
Through the Alda Center for Communicating Science, Alda helps experts better communicate their work, using practices and techniques from improv comedy.

ELECTRONICS | NANOSCIENCE & NANOMATERIALS

Stretchable electronics based on nanomaterials
This tutorial teaches how to fabricate stretchable touch-responsive electronic devices based on nanomaterials.
Produced by Evgenia Gilshteyn, Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
A finalist in the 2018 MRS Science in Video competition, sponsored by the Materials Research Society Foundation, Goodfellow Corporation, and A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute.

MICROCAST® 4K PRO™ ultra high definition microscope camera system
OPTRONICS MICROCAST PRO camera systems deliver up to 4K video at 3840x2160 pixel resolution with instantaneous frame rates, 3 CMOS RGB clinical quality color reproduction, high dynamic range with
extended exposure options to provide sensitivity and  unsurpassed digital video image quality. Read more.

CLARIOstar Plus microplate reader
CLARIOstar^® Plus comes equipped with BMG LABTECH's patented LVF Monochromators™, filters, spectrometer, and newly developed Enhanced Dynamic Range technology, making it the ideal reader for assay development . Read more.

SCIENCE AS ART

Monarch Butterfly wing
Chen Yiheng, The Haverford School, USA

A colored scanning electron microscope image of a segment of a Monarch Butterfly’s wing.

A Second Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2018 MRS Fall 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.