Materials Matter
 

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