2010 MRS Fall Meeting

Materials for Information Processing: Fundamentals on materials research applied to photonics, electronics, displays, photovoltaics, and bioelectronics will be discussed. Materials such as organic semiconductors, diamond, rare-earths, transition metals, doped nitrides, oxides, liquid crystals, and organic/inorganic composites are included in the program. Challenges in large-scale processing of emerging materials or printable devices, as well as low- temperature processing and reliability, will be addressed.
Materials for Infrastructure and Mechanical Applications: Research on materials for mechanical applications at all length scales will be covered, including: advanced intermetallic alloys, new steel designs, bulk metallic glasses, ceramic, metal and composite materials for nuclear power applications, behavior at micro- and nanoscales and in harsh environments, microelectromechanical systems, and harnessing instabilities in soft materials.
Materials Processing and Device Fabrication: Synthesis, fabrication, assembly, and integration of a broad range
of materials at different length scales, including nanowires, hierarchical and composite materials, group IV semiconductor nanostructures, aerogels and aerogel-inspired materials, boron and boron compounds, artificially aligned crystalline thin films and nanostructures, and group VIII inorganic materials, will be discussed, with applications in electronic, optoelectronic, nanophotonics, energy and sensing devices.
Materials for Energy: Materials research related to magnetocalorics and magnetic cooling, novel fuel cell materials and concepts, as well as advanced Li batteries, polymer-based materials as nanocomposites, nanostructures and smart materials, transparent conducting oxides, and thermoelectric materials for power generation and cooling.
Biological and Environmental Applications of Materials: Synthesis, assembly, and applications of biological and bioinspired materials will be covered in a dynamic range of symposia with a focus on the forefront of biomineral-ization and biomimetics, multiscale mechanics, materials synthesis and assembly for imaging, sensing, and therapeutics, applications to nanobiotechnology, and their health and environmental safety.
Materials Exploration: In-situ characterization approaches using advanced imaging and scattering techniques, synchrotron radiation, and methods to study the structure-property relation of evolving thin films, novel develop-ments in scanning probe microscopy, materials issues in art and archaeology, and materials education and outreach from kindergarten to graduate school.