MRS Embraces Soft Materials

Optomechanics of Soft Materials

Some molecules change shape upon receiving photons of certain frequencies, but here we study light-induced deformation in ordinary dielectrics with no special optical effects. All dielectrics deform in response to light of all frequencies. We derive a dimensionless number to estimate when light can induce large deformation. For a structure made of soft dielectrics, with feature size comparable ...

Rheology of Soft Materials

Research on soft materials, including colloidal suspensions, glasses, pastes, emulsions, foams, polymer networks, liquid crystals, granular materials, and cells, has captured the interest of scientists and engineers in fields ranging from physics and chemical engineering to materials science and cell biology. Recent advances in rheological methods to probe mechanical responses of these complex ...

MRS Symposium : Thin Film and Nano - Structured Materials for Photovoltaics

The system CuGaSe2 CuGa3Se5 in thin films has been investigated. Layer synthesis was carried out by chemical close-spaced vapour transport (CCSVT) using Cu precursors on Mo/soda-lime glass substrates. The extension of deposition times in a two-step process led to final film compositions with [Ga]/[Cu] ratios ranging from 1 to 3, allowing the study of the phase transition mentioned above. Films ...

Indonesia embraces the Data Science

The information era is the time when information is not only largely generated, but also vastly processed in order to extract and generated more information. The complex nature of modern living is represented by the various kind of data. Data can be in the forms of signals, images, texts, or manifolds resembling the horizon of observation. The task of the emerging data sciences are to extract i...

Effective Interactions in Soft Materials