OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2016. 2016 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. All technical sessions and non-technical events will be held at the Hynes Convention Center and adjacent Sheraton Boston Hotel. Locations and schedules of individual symposia will be posted in 2016 as available. Non-technical events will be listed on the menu to the left. Information about individual sessions and special events will be posted as they become available closer to the meeting.

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Symposia

Broader Impact
Meeting Chair: T. Venky Venkatesan

  • BI1—Today’s Teaching and Learning in Materials Science—Challenges and Advances
  • BI2—The Business of Materials Technology

Biomaterials and Soft Materials
Meeting Chair: Sarah Heilshorn

  • BM1—Spatiotemporally and Morphologically-Controlled Biomaterials for Medical Applications
  • BM2—Stimuli Responsive Organic and Inorganic Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications and Biosafety
  • BM3—Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine
  • BM4—Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerfaces Devices and Stretchable Electronics
  • BM5—Materials for Biointegrated Photonic Systems
  • BM6—Fabrication, Characterization and Applications of Bioinspired Nanostructured Materials
  • BM7—Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies

Electrochemistry
Meeting Chair: Bernard Bewlay

  • EC1—Redox Activity on the Molecular Level—Fundamental Studies and Applications
  • EC2—Facilitating Charge Transport in Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials
  • EC3—Catalytic Materials for Energy and Sustainability
  • EC4—Material, Devices and Systems for Sustainable Conversion of Solar Energy to Fuel
  • EC5—Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications

Electronics, Magnetics and Photonics
Meeting Chair: T. Venky Venkatesan

  • EM1—Materials Issues for Quantum Computing
  • EM2—Rare Earths in Advanced Photonics and Spintronics
  • EM3—Electronic and Ionic Dynamics at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
  • EM4—Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors
  • EM5—Materials and Mechanisms of Correlated Electronic Phenomena in Oxide Heterostructures
  • EM6—Thin-Film Transistors—New Materials and Device Concepts
  • EM7—Functional Plasmonics—From Molecular to Submicron Level
  • EM8—Spin Dynamics in Nonmagnetic Materials and Devices
  • EM9—Materials and Nanostructures for Magnetic Skyrmions
  • EM10—Emerging Materials and Technologies for Nonvolatile Memories
  • EM11—Wide-Bandgap Materials for Energy Efficiency—Power Electronics and Solid-State Lighting
  • EM12—Diamond Electronics, Sensors and Biotechnology—Fundamentals to Applications

Energy and Sustainability
Meeting Chairs: Silvija Grade?ak and T. Venky Venkatesan

  • ES1—Materials Science and Chemistry for Grid-Scale Energy Storage
  • ES2—Materials Challenges for Flow-Based Energy Conversion and Storage
  • ES3—Perovskite Solar Cell Research from Material Properties to Photovoltaic Function
  • ES4—Thermoelectric Polymers and Composites—Nontraditional Routes to High Efficiency
  • ES5—Materials Research and Design for A Nuclear Renaissance
  • ES6—Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management

Mechanical Behavior and Failure Mechanisms of Materials
Meeting Chairs: Bernard Bewlay and Ralph Spolenak

  • MB1—Intermetallic-Based Alloys – From Fundamentals to Applications
  • MB2—Materials under Mechanical Extremes
  • MB3—High-Entropy Alloys
  • MB4—Glassy, Nanocrystalline and Other Complex Alloy Systems and Their Applications
  • MB5—Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials
  • MB6—Cyclic Deformation and Fracture at the Nanoscale
  • MB7—Shear Transformation Mechanisms and Their Effect on Mechanical Behavior of Crystalline Materials

Nanomaterials
Meeting Chair: Silvija Grade?ak

  • NM1—Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices
  • NM2—2D Layers and Heterostructures Beyond Graphene—Theory, Preparation, Properties, and Devices
  • NM3—Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures
  • NM4—Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion
  • NM5—Nanomembrane Materials—From Fabrication to Application
  • NM6—Nanoscale Materials and Devices by High-Temperature Gas-Phase Processes

Processing and Manufacturing
Meeting Chairs: Bernard Bewlay and Ralph Spolenak

  • PM1—Ion Beam Enabled Nanoscale Fabrication, Modification and Synthesis
  • PM2—Plasma Processing via Liquid for Life Sciences and Environmental Applications
  • PM3—Materials Science-Enabled Advances in Materials- and Manufacturing-Technologies
  • PM4—Novel Materials, Fabrication Routes and Devices for Environmental Monitoring
  • PM5—Hierarchical, Hybrid and Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing for Device Applications

Theory, Characterization and Modeling
Meeting Chairs: Silvija Grade?ak, Sarah Heilshorn and Ralph Spolenak

  • TC1—In Silico Materials Chemistry
  • TC2—Design, Discovery and Understanding of Materials Guided by Theory, Computation and Data Mining
  • TC3—Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology
  • TC4—Advances in Spatial, Energy and Time Resolution in Electron Microscopy