july04_researchers.qxp Review Articles and Special Issues RESEARCH/RESEARCHERS 436 MRS BULLETIN/JULY 2004 average diameter of 500 nm, by spin coat- ing. The hydrophobic PAA coating of the substrates enabled the particles to be deposited without using a surfactant. Areas of up to 50 µm of polycrystalline polystyrene nanoparticles were observed. The nanoparticles act as a nanomask during the etching process with oxygen. To achieve some nanodome top surface with PAA functionalities, the nanoparticles were not completely etched. The plasma treat- ment was stopped in time to leave some residual nanoparticles on top of the nano- domes. These nanoparticles were then removed by an ultrasound bath in water. Under atomic force microscopy and scan- ning electron microscopy studies, the resulting surface showed two-dimensional, crystalline, PAA truncated cones separated by substrate-like zones. Because the top of the truncated cones had not been exposed to the oxygen plasma, it retained the carbo- xylic functionalities of the polymer. Meas- urements from atomic force microscopy images showed flat plateaus of ~250 nm in diameter. Protein absorption experiments revealed that the molecules were selective- ly bound to the functional plateau of the domes, with no protein found in the sur- rounding matrix (Figure 1). The re- searchers anticipate applications for biosensor development because of the pos- sibility of controlling the surface distribu- tion of nanostructures in a macroscopic area of the devices. MARIA CORTALEZZI Acta Materialia 52 (10) (June 7, 2004) contains D.J. Larson, A.K. Petford-Long, Y.Q. Ma, and A. Cerezo, “Information Storage Materials: Nanoscale Characterisation by Three- Dimensional Atom Probe Analysis,” p. 2847. Journal of Applied Physics 95 (11) (June 1, 2004) contains R.C. Ewing, W.J. Weber, and J. Lian, “Nuclear Waste Disposal— Pyrochlore (A2B2O7): Nuclear Waste Form for the Immobilization of Plutonium and ‘Minor’ Actinides,” p. 5949. Low Temperature Physics 30 (5) (May 2004) contains S.V. Lubenets, V.D. Natsik, and L.S. Fomenko, “Plasticity and Strength of Metal Oxide High-Temperature Superconductors (Review),” p. 345. Physics of the Solid State 46 (5) (May 2004) contains Yu.I. Golovin, “Magnetoplastic Effects in Solids,” p. 789. Applied Mechanics Reviews 57 (2) (March 2004) contains V.A. Lubarda, “Constitutive Theories Based on the Multiplicative Decomposition of Deformation Gradient: Thermoelasticity, Elastoplasticity, and Biomechanics,” p. 95; R. Krueger, “Virtual Crack Closure Technique: History, Approach, and Applications,” p. 109; and H. Irschik and H.J. Holl, “Mechanics of Variable-Mass Systems—Part 1: Balance of Mass and Linear Momentum,” p. 145. Solid State Electronics 48 (8) (August 2004) is a special issue on “Strained-Si Heterostructures and Devices.” Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 14 (2) (June 2004) contains a focus section on “Global Dynamics in Spatially Extended Mechanical Systems.” Journal of Applied Physics 95 (11) (June 1, 2004) contains a special section with papers from the 9th Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Intermag Conference Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 4 (2) (June 2004) is a special issue on “Virtual Reality for Product Development.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics 130 (6) (June 2004) is a spe- cial issue on “Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials.” Journal of Bridge Engineering 9 (3) (May/June 2004) contains a special section on “Steel Bridges.” Journal of Biomedical Optics 9 (3) (May 2004) contains a spe- cial section on “Biomedical Optics and Women’s Health.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 18 (2) (May 2004) is a special issue on “Blast Mitigation and Design Against Terrorism.” IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability 4 (1) (March 2004) is a special issue containing selected papers from the 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA). Journal of Fluids Engineering 126 (2) (March 2004) contains papers from International Mechanical Engineering Congress 2002 in New Orleans, La., from the symposia on the “Rheology and Fluid Mechanics of Nonlinear Materials,” “Advances in Processing Science,” and “Electric and Magnetic Phenomena in Micro and Nano-Scale Systems.” Organic Electronics 5 (1–3) (March 2004) is a special issue containing papers from the European Materials Research Society symposium on “Current Trends in Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: Growth Modelling and Fundamental Properties.” Figure 1. Field-emission gun scanning electron microscopy image of the BSA protein selectively bound on a polymer film of acrylic-acid dome top surface. News of MRS Members/Materials Researchers Paul Alivisatos, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences. Yoel Fink, Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Re- search in recognition of his “pioneering contributions and ingenuity in the cre- ative design and development of photon- ic materials and devices.” The award, presented since 1981, was established by AT&T Bell Laboratories in honor of William O. Baker. Edith Flanigen, a consultant for UOP, a joint venture between Union Carbide and Allied Signal, has been named to receive the 2004 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her pioneering work in chemistry and materials science to help make petroleum refinement cleaner and safer. Nick Holonyak, the John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the Univer- sity of Illinois, has been named to receive the 2004 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Inven- https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs2004.135 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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Meyer, Brandeis University, who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics for his creative synthe- sis of theory and experiment demon- strating that tilted, layered liquid-crystal phases of chiral molecules are ferroelec- tric, thus launching both fundamental scientific advancement in the field of soft condensed matter physics and in the development of liquid-crystal displays that meet the demands of current tech- nology; and Robert E. Newnham, The Pennsyl- vania State University, who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering for his invention of multi- phase piezoelectric transducers and their spatial architecture, which has revolu- tionized the field of acoustic imaging. The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers have been given to 57 researchers, including the following MRS members: Susmita Bose (Washington State University); Christine Orme (Lawrence Liver- more National Laboratory); Michelle L. Pantoya (Texas Tech University); Bridget Rogers (Vanderbilt Uni- versity); and Gregory Neil Tew (University of Massachusetts). The Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, Pa.) has identified the top 10 most cited materials scientists for the period of January 1993–October 2003, including MRS members: Anthony G. Evans (University of California—Santa Barbara); Akihisa Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan); Terry Langdon (University of Southern California); Galen D. Stucky (University of California—Santa Barbara); and Ruslan Z. Valiev (Ufa State Aviation Technical University—Russia). The International Centre for Diffraction Data has selected six recipients for the 2004 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Program: Geoffrey Kwai-Wai Kong, University of Melbourne/St.Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Australia, for explo- ration into “Crystallographic Studies of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (AAP)”; Chong Lim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana for re- search concerning “Reaction Path and Crystallography of CoSi2 Formation on Si(001) by Reactive Deposition Epitaxy”; Andrew Locock, University of Notre Dame, for “Crystal Structure and Synchrotron Radiation Study of Uranyl Oxysalts of Phosphate and Arsenate— Implications for Remediation”; Robin T. Macaluso, Louisiana State University, for research involving “X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Studies for Understanding Geometrically Frustrated Systems”; Petra Simoncic, University of Bern, Switzerland, for studies focusing on “Defect Structure of the Natural and Synthetic Zeolites Mordenite—Structure Characterization of Dye Modified, Synthetic Mordenite”; and Kimberly Tait, University of Arizona, for “Investigations into the Stability, Morphology and the Crystal Structure of the Coexistence of Structure I and Structure II Methane-ethane Clathrate Hydrates—Occurrence and Geological Implications.” tion in recognition of his invention of the practical light-emitting diode in 1962. Charles Lieber, Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences. Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chem- istry in the University at Buffalo’s College of Arts and Sciences and Samuel P. Capen Chair, has been awarded the 2004 Morley Medal by the Cleveland section of the American Chemical Society. Gary L. Smith, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been appointed chair of the ASTM International Com- mittee C26 on Nuclear Fuel Cycle. This prominent and influential committee develops standards important to work done on the nuclear fuel cycle, including spent nuclear fuel, waste materials, and repository waste packaging and storage. Smith also was honored with the Harlan J. Anderson Award, which is presented annually to a member of C26 who has made outstanding contributions toward the successful operation of the committee. Robert L. Snyder has been named Distinguished Fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). For more information, contact: Anita B. 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