1. Doubling the NSF budget

   • Alex King

   Letter from the President 01 August 2002 Pages: 579 - 579

2. The Role of Venture Capital: Turning Science into Money

   • Bill Frezza

   Material Matters 01 August 2002 Pages: 580 - 583

3. Nanoscale Technique Prints Metal Films with Reusable Stamps and Tailored Surface Chemistry

   • Richard N. Louie

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 584 - 584

4. Diblock Copolypeptide Amphiphiles Form Rapidly Recovering Hydrogels

   • Steven Trohalaki

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 584 - 584

5. Anode-Supported SOFC Performs Well at Intermediate Operating Temperatures with a Lanthanum Ferrite-Based Cathode

   • Donald Carter

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 584 - 585

6. Magnesium Diffusion in Silica Enhanced by Na and Retarded by Al

   • Pamela Johnson

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 585 - 586

7. Protein Promotes Nucleation in Water Microdroplets

   • Elizabeth A. Shack

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 586 - 586

8. Possibility of the Formation of Mesostructured Silica Titania Mixed-Oxide Thin Films with High Titania Load Demonstrated

   • Andrei A. Eliseev

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 586 - 586

9. Spontaneous Emission from CdSe/CdS Core–Shell Quantum Dots Modified in the Presence of a SiO₂/Si Interface

   • Greg Khitrov

   Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 586 - 587

10. Single-Phase Ba₂Ti₉O₂₀ Fabricated after Addition of 5% B₂O₃

    • Siari S. Sosa

    Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 587 - 587

11. Low-Temperature 2D-to-3D Transition in Layered Metals Correlates with the Presence of Coherent Quasi-Particles within the Layers

    • Emily Jarvis

    Research/Researcher 01 August 2002 Pages: 587 - 587

12. House Breathes New Life into Tech Talent Bill

    • Jennifer Ouellette

    Washington News 01 August 2002 Pages: 588 - 588

13. Resources

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 589 - 589

14. Portable Power: Advanced Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

    • Donald R. Sadoway
    • Anne M. Mayes

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 590 - 596

15. Developments in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries

    • Peter V. Wright

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 597 - 602

16. Nanoscale Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

    • Charles R. Sides
    • Naichao Li
    • Charles R. Martin

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 604 - 607

17. Layered Li(Ni, M)O₂ Systems as the Cathode Material in Lithium-Ion Batteries

    • C. Delmas
    • L. Croguennec

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 608 - 612

18. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Lithium-Ion Battery Materials

    • Clare P. Grey
    • Steve G. Greenbaum

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 613 - 618

19. Computational Modeling and Simulation for Rechargeable Batteries

    • Gerbrand Ceder
    • Marc Doyle
    • Yuris Fuentes

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 619 - 623

20. Lithium Batteries for Biomedical Applications

    • Esther S. Takeuchi
    • Randolph A. Leising

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 624 - 627

21. Issues in Energy Storage for Electric-Based Transportation

    • Gholam-Abbas Nazri

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 628 - 631

22. Up Close: Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers—U.S. National Network for Materials Research

    • Clyde L. Briant

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 637 - 645

23. MRS-India 13th Annual General Meeting Held in February

    • S. V. Subramanyam
    • D. Banerjee

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2002 Pages: 647 - 647

24. MRS Seeks Nominees for 2003 Outstanding Young Investigator Award

    MRS News 01 August 2002 Pages: 649 - 649

25. KTH Celebrates 175th Anniversary with Symposium on Nanostructured Materials

    • Julia Weertman

    Conference Reports 01 August 2002 Pages: 650 - 650

26. Molecular Magnetism—New Magnetic Materials

    Library 01 August 2002 Pages: 651 - 651