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  Magnetic anisotropy is the key component in permanent magnets. This research focuses on creating a new type of magnetic anisotropy, leading to synthesis and measurement of two new ternary compounds.

A team of researchers, led by Yoel Fink of the MIT MRSEC, has developed light-detecting fibers that can be woven together to create a flexible, basic camera. These fibers are each less than a millimeter in diameter, and consist of several nested layers of light-detection materials. The fibers measure the intensity of the light illuminating them and convert it to an electrical signal, which is then fed into a computer that

11,586 users worldwide have run nearly 16,643 experiments to date • iLabs are online experimental tools that allow pre-college and college students to access scientific instruments housed at universities to conduct experiments via the internet. • Use of iLabs has been shown to improve student inquiry skills and experimental design skills resulting in more authentic scientific investigations

• The NU-MRSEC has partnered with the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry to create a new exhibit focused on materials science and society, scheduled to debut in Spring 2015. • The exhibit is designed in a manner that it can be easily moved to other locations following its run at the Chicago MSI. • Approximately 1.5 million guests, including >300,000 children in school groups visit the Museum annually.

Collaboration between faculty, shared facilities, and industry to fabricate instrumentation for high-throughput cryogenic sample preparation

• Inkjet printable graphene based on ethyl cellulose stabilizer in terpineol. • Low resistivity of 4 mΩ-cm maintained following repeated flexing/folding.