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.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 120
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 20: Research highlights: Perovskites
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stabilize solar cells by converting the surfaces of lead halide perovskites to water-insoluble lead oxysalt, as reported in Science. Res…
Episode 19: Polymer grown on liquid metal nanodroplets
Prachi Patel of MRS Bulletin interviews Carmel Majidi of Carnegie Mellon University about utilizing atom transfer radical polymerization to create liquid metal–polymer hybrid materials with high stab…
Episode 18: Organic high-spin material conducive for quantum computing
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Jason Azoulay of the University of Southern Mississippi about his conjugated polymer semiconductor, a promising candidate for technologies that integrate both c…
Episode 17: Lead-halide perovskites make effective catalysts for organic synthesis
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 16: Thermoelectrics enables clothes with adjustable temperature
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Renkun Chen of the University of California, San Diego about his flexible thermoelectric devices that can provide personalized cooling and heating effects in cl…
Episode 15: 3D stretchable electronics achieves ultrahigh conductivity
Prachi Patel of MRS Bulletin interviews Benjamin C.-K. Tee of the National University of Singapore about an interfacial design for stretchable electronics that uses three-dimensional helical copper m…
Episode 14: Thin film patterns classified by machine learning
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Alex Hexemer of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and Daniela Ushizima and Shuai Liu of the University of California, Berkeley about their de…
Episode 13: Tendril-like robot inspired by plants
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Barbara Mazzolai and Edoardo Sinibaldi of the Italian Institute of Technology about their robot made from two types of polymers, enabling it to extend and retra…
Episode 12: Europium thwarts reactivity in metal-halide perovskite solar cells
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 11: Nanoparticle megalibraries enable materials discovery
Prachi Patel of MRS Bulletin interviews Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University about the use of his polymer pen lithography technique combined with an ink spray-coating method to ultimately create a …
Episode 10: Protein-based polymer achieves green electronics
Omar Fabián of MRS Bulletin interviews Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz of the Technical University of Denmark about the use of silk to fabricate eco-friendly electronics. Read the article in Advanced Scien…
Episode 9: E-skin detects direction of applied pressure
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Zhenan Bao of Stanford University about her research team’s development of a biomimetic soft electronic skin (e-skin) composed of an array of capacitors capable…
Episode 8: Ge added to lead-free perovskite improves efficiency
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 7: Synthetic biology exploited to neutralize mustard gas
Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Jared DeCoste, a researcher with the US army, about the research team's work to counter the effect of mustard gas. First, the researchers alter E. coli’s DNA to…
Episode 6: Chlorine boosts efficiency of tandem solar cell
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 5: Artificial neuron made from VO2
An artificial neuron made from vanadium dioxide precisely mimics the behavior of normal and faulty neurons in the brain. This could have important implications for neuroscience. Read the abstract in …
Episode 4: Can metal-halide perovskite solar cells be used for concentrated PV devices?
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 3: 3D-printed implant designed to repair spinal injuries
A silicon chip with 4 million microscopic mirrors is used to shine UV light in a 3D pattern based on a digital MRI image of the spinal cord wound in rats. The light falls onto a mixture of poly(ethyl…
Episode 2: Optoelectronic properties of perovskites tunable due to reversible surface relaxation
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…
Episode 1: How reduced-dimensional metal halide perovskites are formed
Research on perovskites has progressed rapidly for PV and LEDs, with new solar-cell efficiency records being set at a regular pace. There are hints of the first commercial products reaching the marke…