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Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University, delivered his lecture as the 2022 William D. Nix Award recipient.
This highly interactive session shared benchmark examples of STEM outreach from leaders in the field, with participants rotating through a series of workshop stations for an immersive learning experience in preparing and implementing STEM outreach activities and programs.
In recent decades, developments in software and hardware technologies have created dramatic shifts in design, manufacturing and research. Software technologies have facilitated automated process and new solutions for complex problems. Computation has also become a platform for creativity through generative art and design. New hardware platforms and digital fabrication technologies have similarly transformed manufacturing, offering more efficient production and mass customization. Such advances have helped catalyzed the maker-movement, democratizing design and maker culture. This influx of new capabilities to design, compute and fabricate like never before, has sparked a renewed interest in material performance.
We are now witnessing significant advances in active matter, 3D/4D Printing, materials science, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology and soft robotics, which have led to the convergence of software, hardware and material technologies and the growing field of programmable materials.
This conference was about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications.
If over the past few decades we have experienced a software revolution, and more recently, a hardware revolution, this conference aims to discuss the premises, challenges and innovations brought by today’s materials revolution. We can now sense, compute, and actuate with materials alone, just as we could with software and hardware platforms previously. How does this shift influence materials research, and how does it shape the future of design, arts, and industrial applications? What tools and design processes do we need to advance, augment and invent new materials today? What are the key roles that industry, government, academic and public institutions can play in catalyzing the field of programmable materials?
This two-day conference consisted of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Learn more at activemattersummit.com
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In recent decades, developments in software and hardware technologies have created dramatic shifts in design, manufacturing and research. Software technologies have facilitated automated process and new solutions for complex problems. Computation has also become a platform for creativity through generative art and design. New hardware platforms and digital fabrication technologies have similarly transformed manufacturing, offering more efficient production and mass customization. Such advances have helped catalyzed the maker-movement, democratizing design and maker culture. This influx of new capabilities to design, compute and fabricate like never before, has sparked a renewed interest in material performance.
We are now witnessing significant advances in active matter, 3D/4D Printing, materials science, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology and soft robotics, which have led to the convergence of software, hardware and material technologies and the growing field of programmable materials.
This conference was about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications.
If over the past few decades we have experienced a software revolution, and more recently, a hardware revolution, this conference aims to discuss the premises, challenges and innovations brought by today’s materials revolution. We can now sense, compute, and actuate with materials alone, just as we could with software and hardware platforms previously. How does this shift influence materials research, and how does it shape the future of design, arts, and industrial applications? What tools and design processes do we need to advance, augment and invent new materials today? What are the key roles that industry, government, academic and public institutions can play in catalyzing the field of programmable materials?
This two-day conference consisted of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Learn more at activemattersummit.com
All photos ©L. Barry Hetherington
lbarryhetherington.com/
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By Christopher Johnson and Vilas G. Pol
These are titanium oxide nanoparticles coated with carbon—an interesting option for a battery anode. Scientists are seeking new kinds of anodes to improve lithium-ion battery performance, lifetime and safety. These studies often reach into the nano level as researchers try to understand activity at the atomic scale in order to custom design new materials for batteries.
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Electronically-Interconnected, carbon-encapsulated TiO2 nanoparticulate as a novel anode for lithium ion batteries.
Salt particles scattered over a SiN substrate
Courtesy of Mr. Marien Bremmer
Image Details
Instrument used: Tecnai
Voltage: 200
Spot: 3.0
Antlers get their toughness from a hard outer sheath of bone that surrounds and protects the porous bone inside.
This highly interactive session shared benchmark examples of STEM outreach from leaders in the field, with participants rotating through a series of workshop stations for an immersive learning experience in preparing and implementing STEM outreach activities and programs.
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Kevin Golovin, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at U-M, demonstrates a new rubbery material that can create ice repelling, or "icephobic," coatings on a variety of materials, such as windshields or ship hulls. In this photo, the "icephobic" coating was applied to the right half of a license plate, preventing ice from sticking to that half after being placed in a freezer. The research is being done under the direction of Anish Tuteja, an associate professor in U-M's Department of Materials Science & Engineering.
Photo: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
In recent decades, developments in software and hardware technologies have created dramatic shifts in design, manufacturing and research. Software technologies have facilitated automated process and new solutions for complex problems. Computation has also become a platform for creativity through generative art and design. New hardware platforms and digital fabrication technologies have similarly transformed manufacturing, offering more efficient production and mass customization. Such advances have helped catalyzed the maker-movement, democratizing design and maker culture. This influx of new capabilities to design, compute and fabricate like never before, has sparked a renewed interest in material performance.
We are now witnessing significant advances in active matter, 3D/4D Printing, materials science, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology and soft robotics, which have led to the convergence of software, hardware and material technologies and the growing field of programmable materials.
This conference was about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications.
If over the past few decades we have experienced a software revolution, and more recently, a hardware revolution, this conference aims to discuss the premises, challenges and innovations brought by today’s materials revolution. We can now sense, compute, and actuate with materials alone, just as we could with software and hardware platforms previously. How does this shift influence materials research, and how does it shape the future of design, arts, and industrial applications? What tools and design processes do we need to advance, augment and invent new materials today? What are the key roles that industry, government, academic and public institutions can play in catalyzing the field of programmable materials?
This two-day conference consisted of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Learn more at activemattersummit.com
All photos ©L. Barry Hetherington
lbarryhetherington.com/
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Viola Acoff shared her powerful story at the Opening Keynote Session for the Fourth Summit on Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM4) and set the stage for the panel discussion and group conversations that followed.
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YMnO3 thin films deposited on silicon substrate at 800C.
Courtesy of IONELA ILIESCU
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 50,000
Vacuum: HV
Voltage: 15 kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 10.9
Detector: SE
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
YMnO3 thin films deposited on silicon substrate at 750C.
Courtesy of IONELA ILIESCU
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 50,000
Vacuum: HV
Voltage: 15 kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 9.1
Detector: SE
Kevin Golovin, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at U-M, demonstrates a new rubbery material that can create ice repelling, or "icephobic," coatings on a variety of materials, such as windshields or ship hulls. The research is being done under the direction of Anish Tuteja, an associate professor in U-M's Department of Materials Science & Engineering.
Photo: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters. But they have never been able to get a sheet of nanoparticles to curve or fold into a complex three-dimensional structure. Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
The findings open the way for scientists to design membranes with tunable electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties that could be used in electronics and may even have implications for understanding biological systems. Read more »
ABOVE: This highly magnified image of a folded gold nanoparticle scroll shows that even though researchers can fold the membrane, the internal structure remains intact. Image credit: Xiao-Min Lin et. al, taken using a scanning electron microscope at the University of Chicago.
The research used resources at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Advanced Photon Source (APS), the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.
Jennifer Hong Zheng is a principal materials engineer in the Materials Science Division. Read more »
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This highly interactive session shared benchmark examples of STEM outreach from leaders in the field, with participants rotating through a series of workshop stations for an immersive learning experience in preparing and implementing STEM outreach activities and programs.
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology — or NW IMPACT — a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
Terms of Use: Our images are freely and publicly available for use with the credit line, "Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory"; Please use provided caption information for use in appropriate context.
These natural rubber (NR) latex particles interact with each others during the coagulation process and the interactions can be viewed under STEM mode after the sample was swelled by styrene and hardened by the subsequent polymerization process. This enables room temperature sectioning using a microtome. The unsaturated NR molecules can be stained with Osmium to increase the contrast of the image under TEM imaging.
Courtesy of Dr. KIM TAN , MALAYSIAN RUBBER BOARD
Image Details
Instrument used: Tecnai
Magnification: 80,000x
Horizontal Field Width: 1.36um
Vacuum:
Voltage: 200kV
Spot: 7.0
Detector: FEI(STEM)
Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters. But they have never been able to get a sheet of nanoparticles to curve or fold into a complex three-dimensional structure. Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
The findings open the way for scientists to design membranes with tunable electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties that could be used in electronics and may even have implications for understanding biological systems. Read more »
The research used resources at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Advanced Photon Source (APS), the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.
ABOVE: Argonne researchers are able to fold gold nanoparticle membranes in a specific direction using an electron beam because two sides of the membrane are different.
Image credit: Xiao-Min Lin et. al, taken at Argonne’s Electron Microscopy Center.
Viola Acoff shared her powerful story at the Opening Keynote Session for the Fourth Summit on Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM4) and set the stage for the panel discussion and group conversations that followed.
Kevin Golovin, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at U-M, demonstrates a new rubbery material that can create ice repelling, or "icephobic," coatings on a variety of materials, such as windshields or ship hulls. The research is being done under the direction of Anish Tuteja, an associate professor in U-M's Department of Materials Science & Engineering.
Photo: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Dammerung Jagd; Missouri University of Science and Technology. Winner of the TMS Wadsworth-Sherby Bladesmithing Grand Prize Award.
Attendees gather for conversation and breakfast at the DMMM4 Fresh Coffee, Fresh Ideas: Diversity and Inclusion Breakfast as a kick off to the DMMM4 programming and networking.
The image of ettringite (needle-like crystals) and calcium hydroxide (plate-like crystals)crystals presented in cement was achieved within the study of inter-facial transition zone in steel fibre reinforced cement composites (SFRC).
In recent years, the SFRC has become very popular in the construction industry. The addition of fibres into the concrete improves the ductile characteristics of the cement composites considerably. However, the is still a lot of unclear questions considering the properties and mechanisms of bond between steel fibre and cement matrix under tensile stress.
The present study is aimed to investigate the crystalline structure and chemical composition of cement matrix at vicinity of steel fibre. The environmental scanning electron microscope allows to detect the distribution of cement crystals, such as calcium hydroxide and ettringite. The information about micro-structure of the cement matrix can explain it's behaviour at vicinity of steel fibre under tensile.
The image presented was made with FEI Quanta 450 FEG utilising the large field detector in Low vacuum mode.
Courtesy of Ms. Anna Antonova , Aalto University
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta SEM
Magnification: 65000x
Horizontal Field Width: 2 um
Vacuum: 60 Pa
Voltage: 20 kV
Spot: 3
Working Distance: 10
Detector: LFD
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish transparent. This unique adaptation, which helps camouflage the dragonfish from their prey, results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions. The findings could provide “bioinspiration” for researchers looking to develop transparent ceramics.
Full story: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2803
Photos by: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering