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
97 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 ...
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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
Episode 8: Switching mechanism revealed behind reversible molecular assembly in 2D materials
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Magalí Lingenfelder from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland about her group’s discovery of the switching mechanism behind H-bond-linked two-dimensiona...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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5:10
Episode 7: RoboMapper reduces environmental impact of data generation
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Aram Amassian from North Carolina State University about his group’s achievements using RoboMapper, a materials acceleration platform. In researchers’ quest to run environme...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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7:58
Episode 6: Superconductor robust against magnetic field
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Kaveh Ahadi from The Ohio State University about a material his group developed that maintains superconductivity in a magnetic field. The researchers grew a film of lanthan...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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4:49
Episode 5: Theoretical framework predicts real-world industrial catalytic conditions
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Elizabeth Wilson interviews Manos Mavrikakis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison about his group’s theoretical work on real-world industrial catalytic conditions. It is often assumed that mo...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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6:02
Episode 4: Imaging device tracks and controls photocurrent streamlines in electronic devices
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Nathan Gabor from the University of California, Riverside about his group’s work on imaging and directing the flow of electrons in electronic devices. They designed their d...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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4:16
Episode 3: Quantum ruler measures orbital magnetism in moiré quantum matter
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Rahul Rao interviews Fereshte Ghahari of George Mason University about the use of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to measure the electronic and magnetic properties of moiré quantum material...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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4:08
Episode 2: Biocompatible piezoelectric materials promote neural regeneration
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Hamideh Khanbareh and Vlad Jarkov of the University of Bath in the UK about an application they introduced for using piezoelectric materials in tissue engineering. The resea...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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5:20
Episode 1: Photochemistry combined with 3D printing generates complex ceramics structures
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Professor Jerry Qi and postdoctoral researcher Mingzhe Li of the Georgia Institute of Technology about their new technique to 3D print silica glass. After using two-photon p...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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6:20
Episode 16: Biosensor enables early detection of organ transplant failure
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Surabhi Madhvapathy of Northwestern University about an implantable bioelectronics system that can perform early detection of kidney transplant rejection in rats. Madhvapat...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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6:11
Episode 15: Transonic dislocation propagation observed in diamond
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Kento Katagiri, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, about the propagation speed of dislocations in materials. Using an X-ray free electron laser to collect data f...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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5:05
Episode 14: Liquid samples coated in gold nanorods enhance cellular characterization
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Stanford University’s Jennifer Dionne and her PhD student Fareeha Safir and their colleague Amr. Saleh from Cairo University about their work on identifying bacteria in comp...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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7:46
Episode 13: Bioprinting combined with interferometry enables precision oncology
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Alice Soragni of the University of California, Los Angeles about her work in precision oncology. Rather than sequence the DNA of a patient’s tumor, Soragni uses bioprinting...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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5:17
Episode 12: Hydrogel adsorbs more water at elevated temperature
While thermodynamics suggests that water sorption is more favorable at a low temperature, MRS Bulletin podcaster Laura Leay interviews post-doctoral researcher Xinyue Liu from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who reports...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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3:40
Episode 11: Introduction of hydrogen produces eco-friendly thermoelectric oxides
Many industrial processes require heat or create it as a by-product. Now, Takayoshi Katase from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has found a way to harness this heat in an eco-friendly way, as he explains in an interview with MRS Bulletin ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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3:11
Episode 10: Photonic time crystal amplifies electromagnetic signal
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Xuchen Wang of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany about his work on photonic time crystals. While conventional crystals are composed of repeating unit cells in sp...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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4:17