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 • 97 episodes
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
Latest Episodes
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 ...
August 16, 2024
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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...
August 12, 2024
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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...
August 06, 2024
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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...
June 25, 2024
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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...
June 18, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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5:56