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.
Episodes
112 episodes
Episode 10: Relaxor ferroelectric thin film characterized at the nanoscale
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Lane Martin from Rice University about characterization of relaxor ferroelectrics, materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors and actuators. Mar...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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6:39
Episode 9: Stacking materials induces ferroelectricity into wurtzites
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Beth Dickey from Carnegie Mellon University about her new approach to inducing ferroelectricity into a material. Dickey’s research group worked with a class of materials kn...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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5:41
Episode 8: Two-beam interferometry experiment characterizes lightsail propulsion
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Harry Atwater from the California Institute of Technology about his study on lightsail propulsion in order to understand how the device can be developed to do fly-by space t...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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5:20
Episode 7: Nanotomography enables insight into the microstructure of a material
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Ashwin Shahini and Alan Taub from the University of Michigan about their group’s simulations and experimental work detailing the formation mechanisms, morphologies, and micr...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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4:52
Episode 6: Nanocube self-assembly pathways uncovered
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Xingchen Ye of Indiana University about his research group’s studies on the fundamental behavior of colloidal materials. Colloidal materials consist of liquids with nanopar...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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4:23
Episode 5: Triboelectric nanogenerator powered by wind-driven leaf motion
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Fabian Meder from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Piza, Italy about his research group’s device that makes use ...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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5:59
Episode 4: Researchers pinpoint AI/ML training set to achieve accurate predictions
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Bowen Deng, a graduate student in Gerbrand Ceder’s group at the University of California, Berkeley, about their work on increasing the accuracy of artificial intelligence/m...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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4:00
Episode 3: Surface defects control bulk properties of lead halide perovskites
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews David Cahen from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, about the impact surface defects have on bulk properties, specifically in the case of lead halide perovskites. In...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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3:58
Episode 2: Compression activates optical tuning in smart window
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Gwangmin Bae of Korea University about his work with colleagues on the design of a new smart window system that utilizes compression. Like other smart windows, this window ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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4:47
Episode 1: Carbon fiber-based structural battery serves multiple functions
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Leif Asp of Chalmers University of Technology about his group’s development of an all-carbon fiber-based structural battery. The negative electrode uses carbon fiber and, fo...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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4:33
Episode 23: Frontal polymerization controls materials properties
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nancy Sottos, the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign (UIUC...
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Season 6
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Episode 23
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5:53
Episode 22: Additive manufacturing enhances toughness in formable cementitious materials
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Reza Moini of Princeton University about his group’s development of an enhanced additive manufacturing technique to fabricate cementitious materials with excellent fracture ...
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Season 6
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Episode 22
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4:24
Episode 21: Hierarchical ceramics resist crack propagation
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews postdoctoral research fellow Rohit Pratyush Behera and Prof. Hortense Le Ferrand of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore about their design of a strong and tough c...
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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5:28
Episode 20: Amino-silane treatment extends perovskite performance
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Yen-Hung Lin of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology about his work to eliminate defects in perovskite solar cells. Lin’s group treated the perovskites with a cat...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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4:40
Episode 19: 4D-STEM measures thermal properties of 2D materials
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Michael Pettes, deputy group leader and staff scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in Los Alamos National laboratory about a characterization technique th...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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4:44
Episode 18: Glassy gels exhibit numerous mechanical properties
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Michael Dickey of North Carolina State University about the discovery and mechanical properties of glassy gels. Dicky credits his postdoc Meixiang Wang who, while studying ...
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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4:55
Episode 17: Metamaterial tailors thermal emission
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Coskun Kocabas from The University of Manchester in the UK about his development of a metamaterial that can tailor thermal emission. Rather than using a periodic system, whi...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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3:03
Episode 16: Researchers fabricate monolithic selenium/silicon tandem solar cell
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Rasmus Neilsen from the Technical University of Denmark about his fabrication of a monolithic selenium/silicon tandem solar cell. The selenium forms the top cell of the tand...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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4:37
Episode 15: Torsional force microscopy reveals the moiré superlattices
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Mihir Pendharkar of Stanford University about characterizing electronic properties of twistronics materials. Twistronics refers to a type of electronic device consisting of...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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4:58
Episode 14: Mixed-method approach characterizes nanovoids in polymer films
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Falon Kalutantirige from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Ying Li from the University of Wisconsin-Madison about their approach and discovery when ch...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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5:56
Episode 13: Computational model shows 3D metamaterial that exhibits magnetoelectric effect
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Alexandre Dmitriev from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden about his group’s computational model of a three-dimensional metamaterial exhibiting a magnetoelectric effect—kn...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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5:44
Episode 12: New paradigm established for additive manufacturing in field of bioelectronics
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Antonio Dominguez-Alfaro from the University of Cambridge, UK about the development of a single-step manufacturing approach for a multimaterial 3D-printing method. The resea...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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4:52
Episode 11: Chemomechanical approach to surface modification attains high single-photon purity
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Elizabeth Wilson interviews postdoctoral researcher M. Iqbal Bakti Utama of Northwestern University about a method allowing single photon production without defect. Aryl diazonium chemistry has b...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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6:19
Episode 10: Achiral liquid crystal breaks mirror symmetry
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Irmgard Bischofberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about her investigation of how chirality emerges in nature. She uses liquid crystal molecules of disodium...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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4:24
Episode 9: Nanocomposite-superlattice enables low energy, high stability phase-change memory device
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Eric Pop, Xiangjin Wu, and Asir Intisar Khan from Stanford University about their work building a phase-change memory superlattice at the nanoscale. They created the superla...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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9:07