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Five presentations that stand out as 'hot talks/cool papers' from the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
PITTSBURGH PA:From tissue engineering to environmental nanotechnology, the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting, held last month in Boston, brought together over 5,100 attendees from all sectors of the global materials science and engineering communities. Over 4,700 oral and poster presentations were featured (from 42 technical symposia), and of them, the following were selected as the Top 5 Hot Talks/Cool Papers of the week ... for research that translates to general public interest or application. Potential hot talks/cool papers were identified by the Fall Meeting symposium organizers; the Top 5 were selected from this group by the MRS Public Outreach Committee (POC). Although not a formal competition, this service of the POC is intended to increase awareness of materials research and its importance in our everyday lives.
Hot Talk/Cool Paper #1
Presentation EE1.5 IV-VI Semiconductor Mid-IR Lasers
Contact Author Patrick John McCann (pmccann@ou.edu), University of Oklahoma
Citation: New semiconductor laser materials that detect nitric oxide on your breath to enable early asthma diagnosis. Future uses could include the detection of exhaled markers for ulcers, kidney function and cancer.
Hot Talk/Cool Paper #2
Presentation KK8.3 Composition and Electronic Structure of Buried Interfaces and Point Defects Imaged at the Atomic Scale
Contact Author David A.
Muller (davidm@ccmr.cornell.edu), Cornell
University
Citation: The ability to measure nanometer-scale changes
in the bonding of atoms at interfaces is enabling scientists to
develop new materials for everything from aircraft to
computers.
Presentation D1.5 Design and Fabrication of
High Performance OLEDs for Lighting
Applications
Contact Author Junji Kido (kid@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp), Yamagata
University
Citation: Newly developed materials based on small organic molecules have led to large area organic light-emitting diodes (OLED's), which can operate at high brightness for more than 3 years of continuous operation and are to be implemented as an alternative lighting source for offices.
Hot Talk/Cool Paper #4
Presentation DD3.2 Amorphous Multi-component
Heavy Metal Cation Oxides for Thin-Film Transistor
Applications
Contact Author John Wager (jfw@ece.orst.edu), Oregon State
University
Citation: Record electrical properties in a new class of semiconducting materials based on amorphous oxides involving heavy metals such as zinc, indium and tin were reported; these materials show tremendous promise for use in flexible, wearable transparent electronics applications.
Hot Talk/Cool Paper #5
Presentation L13.1 Analysis and Design of
Novel Electrospun PEUU Scaffolds for Soft Tissue
Engineering
Contact Author Michael Sacks (msacks@pitt.edu), University of
Pittsburgh
For more information about the 2005 MRS Fall Meeting or any of
these 'hot talks,' visit the MRS Web site at http://www.mrs.org/fall2005.
The Materials Research Society is a not-for-profit scientific association founded in 1973 to promote interdisciplinary goal-oriented research on materials of technological importance. Membership in the Society consists of more than 13,400 scientists from industry, government, academia and research laboratories in the United States and nearly 50 other countries.
