1. Materials meet bioelectrical and -mechanical demands of the heart

   • Andy Tay

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 566 - 567

   

2. Energy Focus: Structural water plays key role in hybrid energy-storage device

   • Boris Dyatkin

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 567 - 568

   

3. Bio Focus: 3D printed scaffolds developed from isomalt sweetener

   • Alex Klotz

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 568 - 569

   

4. Nano Focus: Vertically aligned MXene nanosheets speed up supercapacitor

   • Tianyu Liu

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 569 - 570

   

5. Ductility observed in flash-sintered yttria-stabilized zirconia

   • Antonio Cruz

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 570 - 571

   

6. Energy Focus: Fast-charging 3D battery developed by bottom-up nanofabrication

   • Rahim Munir

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 571 - 572

   

7. Bio Focus: GaN thin films encode cell regulatory response for biological communication

   • Hortense Le Ferrand

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 572 - 572

   

8. Researchers appeal for materials R&D funding on Congressional Visits Day

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 573 - 574

   

9. World Materials Summit addresses UN Sustainable Development Goals

   News & Analysis 10 August 2018 Pages: 574 - 574

10. Lead-free piezoceramics: Status and perspectives

    • Jürgen Rödel
    • Jing-Feng Li

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 576 - 580

    

11. Lead-free piezoelectrics—The environmental and regulatory issues

    • Andrew J. Bell
    • Otmar Deubzer

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 581 - 587

12. Strain generation and energy-conversion mechanisms in lead-based and lead-free piezoceramics

    • Dragan Damjanovic
    • George A. Rossetti Jr.

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 588 - 594

    

13. High piezoelectricity by multiphase coexisting point: Barium titanate derivatives

    • Jinghui Gao
    • Xiaoqin Ke
    • Xiaobing Ren

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 595 - 599

    

14. Relaxor-ferroelectric transitions: Sodium bismuth titanate derivatives

    • Alisa R. Paterson
    • Hajime Nagata
    • Jacob L. Jones

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 600 - 606

    

15. Shifting the phase boundary: Potassium sodium niobate derivates

    • Ke Wang
    • Barbara Malič
    • Jiagang Wu

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 607 - 611

    

16. Applications of lead-free piezoelectric materials

    • Kenji Shibata
    • Ruiping Wang
    • Jurij Koruza

    OriginalPaper 10 August 2018 Pages: 612 - 616

    

17. Thin-film semiconductors—From exploration to application

    • Sigurd Wagner

    Technical Feature 10 August 2018 Pages: 617 - 622

    

18. Academic pipeline for scientists with disabilities

    • Karl S. Booksh
    • Lynnette D. Madsen

    Diversity in Materials Science & Engineering 10 August 2018 Pages: 625 - 631

    

19. Huey, Lacour, Murray, Neaton, and Visoly-Fisher to chair 2019 MRS Fall Meeting

    Society News 10 August 2018 Pages: 633 - 634

    

20. Preview: XXVII International Materials Research Congress 2018

    Society News 10 August 2018 Pages: 634 - 634

21. Jerrold Floro

    • Rahul Rao

    Society News 10 August 2018 Pages: 635 - 635

    

22. The legend of Benjamin Huntsman and the early days of modern steel

    • Omar Fabián

    Features 10 August 2018 Pages: 637 - 637

    

23. Nanotechnology and Functional Materials for Engineers

    • Yaser Dahman

    Features 10 August 2018 Pages: 638 - 638

24. Compound Semiconductors: Physics, Technology, and Device Concepts

    • Ferdinand Scholz

    Features 10 August 2018 Pages: 638 - 639

25. Semiconductor Nanolasers

    • Qing Gu
    • Yeshaiahu Fainman

    Features 10 August 2018 Pages: 639 - 639

26. Look Again …

    Features, Image Gallery 10 August 2018 Pages: 640 - 640