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September 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From David's desk
  • MPA scientists receive DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program Awards
  • First soft x-ray photons produced from ultrafast time-resolved light source
  • International collaboration studies high-yield superconducting properties of coated conductors
  • DOE-EERE holds annual merit review for hydrogen programs
  • Heads up, MPA!

August 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From Toni's desk
  • Gerie Purdy: Research technologist on the go
  • New reactivity for uranium
  • Garzon elected Vice President of Electrochemical Society
  • MPA-STC's Trugman receives Platinum Scholar Award
  • Journal selects microstructure and superconductivity paper as highlight
  • NMR investigation of pressure-induced superconductivity
  • Heads up, MPA!

July 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From David's desk
  • Fernando Garzon: Energy drives him
  • Safe gold-based access to organo-uranium and azide complexes
  • MPA-10 paper is Editors' Suggestion
  • Invited talk on scanning probe research
  • RCRA-less actinide oxidation receives Laboratory pollution prevention award
  • Los Alamos research selected for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Top Papers Collection
  • Heads up, MPA!

June 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From Toni's desk
  • Alfred Wooten: Man on a wire
  • Self-assembled defects increase superconductor performance
  • Nastasi to lead Energy Frontier Research Center
  • Structure of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes revealed
  • Heads up, MPA!

May 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From David's desk
  • Mike Pacheco and Dwight Rickel: Magnet-building super duo
  • First metamaterial solid-state terahertz phase modulator
  • New understanding of transport in nanoscale electrical contacts
  • Dynamic alignment properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes in high magnetic fields
  • Heads up, MPA!

April 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From Toni's desk
  • Quanxi Jia: Materials idea guy
  • 100-tesla NHMFL magnet is back online
  • Reduced dimensionality not prerequisite for "high temperature" superconductivity
  • 5f orbital involvement in actinide bonding and reactivity
  • Pseudo-isotropic H_c2 in pnictide film
  • Heads up, MPA!

March 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From David's desk
  • Mike Nastasi: From hard hat to hard science
  • Graves receives postdoctoral distinguished performance award
  • Cantat receives ParisTech Best Thesis Award
  • CINT imaging work featured on cover of SciDAC Review
  • Kiplinger selected to serve in American Chemical Society
  • Quantum phase transition in high-Tc superconductors
  • Heads up, MPA!

February 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From Toni's desk
  • Sonia Francoual: Heavy fermion explorer
  • Martinez receives PECASE Award
  • Probing nodal superconductivity
  • Spin Luttinger liquid behavior confirmed in organic quantum magnet
  • Tunable semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots
  • Bose-Einstein condensation in a quantum magnet measured to new low temperature

January 2009 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

  • From David's desk
  • Vivien Zapf: A force unleashed
  • New hydrogen storage project funded
  • First experimental observation of a kink in the dispersion of f-electrons
  • Brosha elected to Electrochemical Society Office
  • New mechanism for superconductivity described
  • New iron-based superconductor studied
  • Research on three superconductors presented at international workshop
  • Heads up, MPA!

Complete Index:
2008 MPA Material Matters
2007 MPA Material Matters
2006 MPA Material Matters

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