MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

Materials News podcast by MRS Bulletin provides breakthrough news & interviews with researchers on hot topics including biomaterials, quantum materials, artificial intelligence, sustainability, perovskites, and robotics. Produced by the Materials Research Society.

MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast is a science podcast hosted by MRS Bulletin, with 141 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

MRS Bulletin hosts MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast, a science show with 141 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Automating a nanoindenter for a self-driving laboratory

  Aug 25, 20264 minS8

  In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin ’s Sophia Chen interviews Vivek Chawla of Sandia National Laboratories about his research group’s automation of a nanoindentation machine, which probes materials locally to characterize mechanical properties. The work paves the way to incorporating an automated nanoindenter for a self-driving laboratory for materials discovery. This work was published in a recent issue of Review of Scientific Instruments .

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  Episode #13

  New insights lead to control of heat transport in ultrathin semiconductors

  Aug 18, 20265 minS8

  In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin ’s Laura Leay interviews Associate Professor Klaas-Jan Tielrooij from both the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain, and Assistant Professor Albert Beardo Ricol from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, about their research into heat transport in ultrathin semiconductors. Using a combination of ultra-high resolution pump–probe thermometry and modelling, they uncovered a non-intuitive heat flux driven by thermoelastic effects. They attribute this behavior to differing mechanical properties at the edge of the material when compared to the middle portion. This work was published in a recent issue of Nature Physics .

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  Episode #12

  Nanoindentation characterizes mechanical behavior in layered materials

  Jul 24, 20265 minS8

  In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin ’s Sophia Chen interviews Henry Quansah Afful, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign about a general framework for understanding how layered materials respond to stress. Afful is interested in the threshold conditions where the material goes from plastic deformation to fracture. Using nanoindentation, his group could learn, at the atomic scale, when plastic deformation starts and how various temperatures affect the mechanical behavior of layered materials. This work was published in a recent issue of Communications Materials .

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  Episode #10

  Episode 10: 3D-printed nanofibrous ceramics enables better structural control than electrospinning

  Jun 22, 20263 minS8

  In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin ’s Sophia Chen interviews Matt Dickerson of the Air Force Research Laboratory about his research group’s development of 3D print nanofibrous ceramics. By blending together block copolymers and pre-ceramic polymers, then burning away the block polymer, the pre-ceramic material transforms into ceramic. Dickerson believes this technique will make large-scale ceramic components easier to make. This work was published in a recent issue of npj Advanced Manufacturing .

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  Episode #9

  Episode 9: Framework designed for programmable 3D woven metamaterials

  Jun 22, 20264 minS8

  In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin 's Laura Leay interviews Carlos Portela from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his research group’s design and modeling framework for 3D woven metamaterials. The design framework utilizes a graph structure which allows the woven architecture to be tuned, and it is computationally inexpensive so that it can run on a desktop computer. The outputs include files for finite element modeling to test the metamaterial for large deformations, and for 3D printing of the structure. This work was published in a recent issue of Nature Communications .

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