White named 2016 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for innovations in photo-responsive materials
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White named 2016 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for innovations in photoresponsive materials
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imothy J. White, senior research engineer at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), has been named a 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator. White was cited “for innovations in the preparation and applications of photo-responsive materials.” He will be presented with the award at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. White has made many contributions to the fields of photopolymerization, optics, liquid crystals, and especially the combination of these three, where he was able to fabricate polymer actuators with unprecedented responsive properties. He has led work in understanding new materials, liquid-crystal glassy and elastomeric solids, in particular how they can have large, fast, and reversible mechanical response
to light. He leads a research program that spans several disciplines—synthetic chemistry, advanced processing (especially of patterning and liquid-crystal alignment), mechanics, optics, and the linkage of these fields to theoretical physics. White’s work is generally focused on stimuli-responsive soft materials. A primary focus of his current research is assimilating these disciplines to locally self-organize the orientation of liquid crystals to prepare polymeric sheets with complex director profiles imprinted within them. This is a step forward from the novel responses already shown in liquidcrystalline materials with homogenous orientation in that unique topographical surface features or foldable structures can be prepared by localizing the mechanical response within the elastic sheets. White’s
Premiering at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting …
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Congratulations to David C. Martin, University of Delaware, selected to present the inaugural MRS Communications Lecture.
The MRS Communications Lecture recognizes excellence in the field of materials research through work published in MRS Communications. It is intended to honor the authors of an outstanding paper published in the journal during the award year.
Molecular Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Conjugated Polymers for Interfacing Electronic Biomedical Devices with Living Tissue March 28, 2016 | 5:30 – 6:30 pm Phoenix Convention Center North, 100 Level, Ballroom 120 A
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MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 41 • MARCH 2016
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