Preview: 2020 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting & Exhibit
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Preview: 2020 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting & Exhibit Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona • Meeting: April 13–17 • Exhibit: April 14–15 mrs.org/spring2020
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he 2020 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center (PCC), Phoenix, Arizona, April 13–17. The symposium sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials research, as well as some well-established and popular topics. To complement the symposium sessions, 10 tutorials will provide detailed introductions to select areas of research, and the exhibit will showcase products and services of interest to the scientific community. The Meeting, exhibits, and posters will all be located at the PCC.
Symposium Sessions
Making up the core of the Meeting are five topical clusters of the technical program, encompassing 56 symposia. They are grouped as follows: Characterization and Theory; Electronics and Photonics; Energy, Storage and Conversion; Nanoscale and Quantum Materials; and Soft Materials and Biomaterials. LATE NEWS—HOT TOPIC coverage will feature: artificial intelligence; responsive and adaptive materials; sustain-
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ability; emerging biomaterials (synthetic biology, 3D biology, and bioelectronics); quantum materials; and more!
The Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science
John A. Rogers will present The Plenary Session Featuring The Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science on Tuesday, April 14, 8:15–9:30 am, in PPC North, Ballroom 120 D. Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemistry, and Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University. He is also the founding director of the endowed Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics. Rogers’s presentation is titled, “Functional Materials for Bioelectronic Neural Interfaces.” Advanced electronic/ optoelectronic devices built with classes of materials that enable intimate integration with soft tissues of the brain and the peripheral nervous system will accelerate
progress in neuroscience research; they will also serve as the foundations for new approaches to regenerative medicine and to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Capabilities for injecting miniaturized electronic elements, light sources, photodetectors, thermal actuators, multiplexed sensors, programmable microfluidic networks and other components into precise locations of the deep brain, or softly laminating them onto the surfaces of nerves, will open up unique and important opportunities in stimulating, inhibiting, and monitoring behaviors of complex neural circuits. This presentation will describe concepts in materials science and assembly processes that underpin these types of technologies in one-, two-, and three-dimensional architectures. Examples include “cellular-scale” optofluidic neural probes for optogenetics research, 3D mesoscale networks for study of neural activity in d
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