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Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets

Researchers at the University of Illinois recently determined how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene – a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first isolated.

Graphic courtesy Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang Lab

I-MRSEC’s Musical Magnetism Curriculum Uses Hip Hop to Teach Science

In the process students learned about the value of science communication.

Image courtesy of Pamela Pena-Martin

Strength in Numbers

How NSF's Materials Research Facilities Network helps bolster the field of materials science and engineering.

Credit: Tony Mastres/UCSB

Understanding Glassy Materials

Penn Researchers Establish Universal Signature Fundamental to How Glassy Materials Fail

Credit: UPenn

A Collective Collaboration

How NSF’s decades-long materials science program has fostered partnerships across scientific fields.

Credit: UNL

Recent Program Highlights

UC Santa Barbara MRSEC Continues REU Program Through COVID-19 Lockdown

The UC Santa Barbara ran a fully remote REU program in Summer 2020, with 18 students working on primarily computational projects.

IRG-1: Magnetoplastic Coupling in Heusler Intermetallics

Experiments (top) showing near zero-net magnetization of MnAu2Al following plastic deformation and simulations (bottom) of low energy displacive pathways enabled by local spin orderings.

IRG-3: Accelerating Block Copolymer Research

A single parent diblock copolymer can be purified by automated chromatography to give libraries of well-defined, low dispersity block copolymers on multi-gram scale.

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