Materials Research Society celebrates 40th anniversary with more cutting-edge research at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting
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Materials Research Society celebrates 40th anniversary with more cutting-edge research at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting www.mrs.org/fall2013 www.mrs.org/OnDemand®
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hile celebrating its 40th anniversary in Boston, the Materials Research Society forged ahead in exploration of the latest frontiers of materials research. At its 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, the Society speedily assembled a Rump Session on organo-metal halide perovskites, the hottest topic in photovoltaics due to recent reports demonstrating that these materials could yield high-efficiency solar cells. “Big data” as it relates to materials science was also a topic of major importance. As always, the special talks delivered by the Society’s award recipients attracted large crowds and were well received. The Meeting Chairs, Charles T. Black (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), Elisabetta Comini (Università di Brescia, Italy), Gitti Frey (Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), Kristi L. Kiick (University of Delaware, USA), and Loucas Tsakalakos (General Electric–Global Research Center, USA) convened the
Meeting on December 1–5, 2013 in Boston, Mass. Close to 6000 attendees were treated to 51 technical symposia in the six broad categories of Biomaterials and Soft Matter, Electronics and Photonics, Energy and Sustainability, General Materials and Methods, Materials and Society, and Nanomaterials. The Meeting also hosted an international equipment exhibit, tutorials, a Science as Art competition, and sessions on government funding opportunities, technology innovations, and professional development and public outreach opportunities. In order to further the research on organo-metal halide perovskites, Dave Ginley of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and David Cahen of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel quickly organized a rump session within Symposium Y: Physics of Organic and Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Solar Cells. With a 10-minute limit per talk, 15 speakers presented their work, captur-
Celebrate the History of MRS through an interactive timeline of important Society milestones. Then watch the story of MRS—its history, where it is today and where the Society is heading in the future. The three-part video feature showcases: MRS Past, Bruce Clemens, 2012 MRS President MRS at 40 Years, Orlando Auciello, 2013 MRS President MRS Into the Future, Tia Benson Tolle, 2014 MRS President Start exploring at www.mrs.org/history.
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MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 39 • MARCH 2014
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ing the excitement of this early period in the investigation of these materials. The most common formulation of the organo-metal halide perovskite material is methyl-ammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3), CH 3NH 3PbI 3. The halide chlorine is often substituted for some of the iodide, resulting in CH3NH3PbI3–xClx. Bromine is also being investigated as the halide by at least one group giving a presentation at this session. Tin and copper were mentioned as substitutes for lead by two different speakers. As might be expected at such an early stage of the research, sc
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