MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 15: Modifying chloroplasts in lettuce to produce meaty proteins
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Alexia Groff, a recent PhD graduate from Imperial College London, about growing genetically modified lettuce to produce myoglobin, an iron-containing protein found...
Episode 14: Automating a nanoindenter for a self-driving laboratory
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Vivek Chawla of Sandia National Laboratories about his research group’s automation of a nanoindentation machine, which probes materials locally to characterize mec...
Episode 13: New insights lead to control of heat transport in ultrathin semiconductors
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Associate Professor Klaas-Jan Tielrooij from both the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spai...
Episode 12: Nanoindentation characterizes mechanical behavior in layered materials
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Henry Quansah Afful, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign about a general framework for understanding how layered ma...
Episode 11: Polymer necking revisited
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews assistant professor Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun from Georgia Institute of Technology about their research on introducing a new material state t...