Preview: 2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit
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Preview: 2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts Meeting: November 25–30 Exhibit: November 27–29 www.mrs.org/fall2012
2012 FALL MEETING CHAIRS
Chennupati Jagadish Australian National University
Thomas Lippert Paul Scherrer Institut
Eric Stach Brookhaven National Laboratory
Amit Misra Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ting Xu University of California–Berkeley
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he Materials Research Society will hold its 2012 Fall Meeting at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., November 25–30, 2012. The meeting will include a technical program, tutorials, a plenary session, an awards ceremony, an equipment exhibit, poster sessions, a career center, funding seminars, and other special activities. Symposium proceedings will be published and made available free online to MRS members.
The increasingly cross-disciplinary worldwide activity on materials research culminates every year in the MRS Fall Meetings. Symposium organizers from around the world have created a program of 52 symposia that addresses leadingedge research and captures the extraordinary progress in materials science and technology, featuring an exciting mix of well-established and popular topics. The symposia are organized into the following clusters. MRS BULLETIN
Advances in fundamental materials science are needed in all areas of energy research; the cluster Materials for energy technologies captures the progress and opportunities in energy production, storage, and sustainability. Developments in thermoelectrics, electrocatalysis, solid-oxide fuel cells, and lithiumion batteries will comprise the storage and power conversion areas. Photovoltaic technologies from the materials to systems level will be discussed, and a specific focused symposium on smallmolecule organic solar cells is included. Novel developments in hierarchically structured materials for energy storage and conversion and functional oxides for renewable energy applications will be described. Crucial issues regarding energy-critical materials and materials for sustainability will be addressed in separate symposia. The cluster Soft materials and biomaterials comprises a diverse array of activity, highlighting the versatility of this class of materials. Symposia concerning the electronic properties of polymers, from single-crystalline materials for semiconducting applications to polymer-based photovoltaics, will be presented. Self-assembly forms another core area, with separate symposia concerning biomolecular and biomimetic self-assembly, protein- and peptide-directed self-assembly, colloidal crystals, quasicrystals and their assemblies, and directed self-assembly for nanopatterning. Novel approaches to the creation of bioinspired surfaces, precision polymeric materials, new membrane platforms, and the application of biomimetic nanoscale platforms for biomedical applications will also be reviewed. Symposia concerning the synthesis and function of a broad range of materials will be available in the cluster F
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