Materials Matter

October 2011
in this edition of Materials Matter:

• From David's desk
• Gang Wu: Getting a charge out of exploring new avenues to clean, renewable energy
• Making metamaterials with sound waves in five minutes or less
• MPA research selected as PRB editor's suggestion
• Heads up!

August 2011 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

• From Toni's desk
• NHMFL-PFF and LANL retake pulsed magnetic field lead in quest for 100T
• MPA scientists win two R&D 100 awards
• Thermal tunability in terahertz metamaterial achieved on strontium titanate single crystals
• CeIrIn5 research captures attention in global scientific journal
• LANL fuel cell research cited by FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership for eighth year in a row
• Tour allows elementary students to feel the pull of magnet science
• From Mark's Desk
• Heads up! Resetting a 15A or 20A, 120V electrical circuit breaker

June 2011 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

• From David's desk
• Jennifer Hollingsworth: Connecting the dots through collaboration
• Resonance-stabilized anion exchange polymer electrolytes
• Nanolayered composites suppress irradiation hardening
• MPA chemists invited to contribute to two international journals devoted to high-impact actinide science
• Laboratory's materials physics researchers give invited talks at American Physical Society meeting
• From Ken's Desk
• Heads up!

April 2011 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

• From Toni's desk
• Ross McDonald: Aiming for the heart of the matter
• Tuning the resonance in high-temperature superconducting terahertz metamaterials
• Paper among top 25 from Institute of Physics celebration of 100 years of superconductivity
• Lovejoy appointed Reines Postdoctoral Fellow
• Nastasi named 2011 Materials Research Society Fellow
• Dayeh receives postdoctoral distinguished performance award
• From David's Desk
• Heads Up: Providing solutions
• Meeting planning services available

February 2011 (pdf)
In this edition of Materials Matter:

• From David's desk
• NHMFL coaxes new discoveries from topological insulators
• Postdoctoral researchers receive awards at Los Alamos Postdoc Research Day
• Tunable ultrafast extreme ultraviolet source for photoemission spectroscopy
• Pressure-induced superconductivity near the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point of CePt2In7
• Time-resolved three-dimensional molecular tracking in live cells
• McCleskey chosen as Materials Chemistry Group Leader
• From Cathy's desk
• Heads UP!

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