MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
Materials News podcast by MRS Bulletin provides breakthrough news & interviews with researchers on hot topics including biomaterials, quantum materials, artificial intelligence, sustainability, perovskites, and robotics. Produced by the Materials Research Society.
Podcasting since 2019 • 117 episodes
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 15: Liquid metal source enables lab-scale 3D XRD microscope
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Ashley Bucsek from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor about her laboratory-scale three-dimensional (3D) x-ray diffraction (XRD) microscope to replace studies done in syn...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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Episode 14: Mechanical metamaterials reprogrammable via magnetic interactions
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Daniel Garcia-Gonzalez from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain about his research group’s reprogrammable metamaterial. The researchers use a soft polymer, mixed with...
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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Episode 13: Moon PV may rely on regolith for substrate
To enable future lunar settlements, researchers are pursuing ways to construct needed devices on the moon to save the expense of shipping them from Earth. In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Felix Lang from th...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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4:54
Episode 12: Lightweight shape memory alloy retains superelasticity at 4 K
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Sheng Xu from Tohoku University, Japan about his lightweight shape memory alloy that retains superelasticity at temperatures as cold as 4 K and as hot as 400°C. This range ...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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Episode 11: Synthetic hydrogel combines stiffness and self-healing properties
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Hang Zhang from Aalto University in Finland about his group’s creation of a composite material that is both stiff and self-healing. The composite involves a hydrogel where t...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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4:55