MRS Bulletin

Article	Citations
Amphiphilic assembly enhances performance of biofuel cells	189
Two-and-one-half cheers for the mediocracy*	79
Things I didn’t and still don’t fully understand	77
EU publishes guidance for safe and sustainable materials and chemicals	64
Journal Highlights	57
MRS Bulletin turns 50!	54
Failure-resistant mechanisms in nature inform metamaterials design	53
Metallic Zn crystals grown in liquid Ga imitate snowflake patterns	49
Forming and erasing memories in disordered solids	43
Gas-phase materials synthesis in environmental transmission electron microscopy	42
Closing a chapter with MRS Bulletin and MRS	39
ML drives design of materials with ultrahigh strength-to-weight ratios	37
Fuel cell-transistor combination amplifies signals, expands biosensing applications	36
Engineering of a novel SilkMA-bacterial cellulose hydrogel bioink for digital light processing three-dimensional bioprinting	36
Beyond potentials: Integrated machine learning models for materials	35
Journal Highlights	34
Solution-driven bioinspired design: Themes of latch-mediated spring-actuated systems	34
How to build an effective self-driving laboratory	33
Micro-architected material design for mechanical response	33
Closing the sustainability gap in materials education	33
Advancing materials science through data integration and sustainable innovation	33
Microstructure development and design in deformation-based metal additive manufacturing	32
Journal Highlights	32
Going cubic halves the efficiency droop in InGaAlN light-emitting diodes	30
Charged-sorbents overcome current limitations of CO2 capture	30

Kinetic network models to study molecular self-assembly in the wake of machine learning	29
Inorganic nanotubes: From WS2 to “misfit” layered compounds	29
Journal Highlights	29
Journal Highlights	29
NIST issues broad agency announcement for proposals to advance microelectronics technologies	29
Nanostructured porous alloys formed from oxides with zero carbon footprint	28
From atomistic to collective dynamics: Bridging gaps in gas-phase electron microscopy for catalysis	28
Nanogenerators developed based on different physics effects	26
Polybot: AI-driven platform for electronic polymer processing	26
Innovative pathways: From neural interfaces to microstructure-driven design	25
The next 50 years of materials research: From atomic precision to global impact	25
Correction to: Materials challenges for powering miniature bioinspired robots	24
Point defects in crystalline materials at 100 years	23
Photonic-crystal-enhanced fluorescence: Template-free gold cryosoret nanoassembly steering, dequenching, and augmenting the quenched emission from radiating dipoles	23
Emerging trends and future perspectives for hybrid metal halides under pressure	23
The LEGOLAS Kit: A low-cost robot science kit for education with symbolic regression for hypothesis discovery and validation	22
Hydrogen in energy and information sciences	22
High-throughput computations and machine learning for halide perovskite discovery	22
On-demand biofilm removal by shape-memory triggered local changes in surface topography	21
Metallic glasses: Deciphering their atomic choreography	21
Interlayer and Moiré excitons in atomically thin double layers: From individual quantum emitters to degenerate ensembles	21
Journal Highlights	20
Nanoindentation’s imprint on an advanced society: Toward application conditions at the extremes	20
Community action on FAIR data will fuel a revolution in materials research	20
Predicting dynamics from structure in a sodium silicate glass	20
Journal Highlights	20
US National Academies report recommends research funding to enhance smart manufacturing	20
Nanoarchitectured interpenetrating nanocomposites offer pathway to multifunctionality	20
Additive manufacturing as a material machine: Designing geometry, microstructure, and behavior at once	19
PrMem: Novel flexible biodegradable paper-graphene oxide-based memristor	18
Influence of the hydrophile–lipophile balance of perfluorinated surfactants on the emulsion stability	18
Glassomics: An omics approach toward understanding glasses through modeling, simulations, and artificial intelligence	18
Magnetically controlled anisotropic light emission of DNA-functionalized supraparticles	18
Real-time imaging of Pd-catalyzed hydrogen oxidation reveals reaction mechanisms	17
Two-dimensional van der Waals materials and their mixed low-dimensional hybrids for electrochemical energy applications	17
Movers & Shakers	17
Organoids grown from two types of endometrial cells	17
DNA modification enables colloidal crystals with novel space-filled architectures	17
Spider silk inspires a new route to organic magnets	17
Educating current industrial workforce to embrace data-driven materials development	17
Mitigation of potential-induced degradation in perovskite solar cells using overnight voltage recovery	16
ERVA reports materials challenges in scaling quantum technologies	16
2023 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit celebrates 50th anniversary of MRS in San Francisco	16
Self-powering pacemaker relies on magnets	16
Publisher Correction: AI, ChatGPT and objective reality	16
Atomic force microscopy with qPlus sensors	16
How AI/ML accelerates the race toward sustainable energy solutions	16
Correction: Second law of thermodynamics and energy dissipation function	16
Characterization studies lead to optimal design for wearable ECG sensor system	16
Materials science at the vanguard of sustainability: Insights from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit	16

Journal Highlights	15
Mathematical nuances of Gaussian process-driven autonomous experimentation	15
Reliability of HfO2-based FeFET memory	15
Unifying physics of chemical mobility, diffusivity, and capacitance	15
Modeling materials under coupled extremes: Enabling better predictions of performance	15
Correction: Theory of nanogenerators and Maxwell’s equations for a mechano-driven system	15
Design of new-concept magnetomechanical devices by phase-field simulations	15
Theory of nanogenerators and Maxwell’s equations for a mechano-driven system	14
ML deepens understanding of HfO2 ferroelectric properties	14
Materials exploration: The next generation	14
Robotic synthesis laboratory demonstrates comprehensive interrogation of hypotheses	14
Van der Waals integration of two-dimensional materials and bulk semiconductors for infrared photodetection technology	13
A high-entropy material walks into flatland	13
MRS Bulletin names Yuqi Li as 2024 Postdoctoral Publication Prize recipient	13
Water-assisted multistep MOCVD for wafer-scale layer-by-layer growth of WSe2	13
Journal Highlights	13
Journal Highlights	13
If we didn’t have advanced materials, there would be no…	13
Foundation models for metallurgy?	13
Mechanochemical and aging-based synthesis of CO2-responsive chitosan	13
Dynamic memristor for bioinspired sensory memory	13
Exotic nanoscale structures formed by layering block copolymers	13
Active micro-posts control the morphology of underlying compliant substrates	13
Mechanically modulable and human–machine interactive luminescent fiber display platforms	13
Chiral assembly of nanoparticles in functional inorganic materials	13
50 years of nanomechanics: Scale-bridging mechanistic insights through the looking glass	13
A review of laser materials processing paradigms	13
Science as Art	12
Garbage in, metal out: A perspective on recycling battery metals using organic molecules	12
Half-Heusler compounds and devices for mid-high temperature thermoelectric applications	12
Alloying and phase separation explored in Au–Rh nanoparticles	12
100 years after Griffith: From brittle bulk fracture to failure in 2D materials	12
Small-scale robots inspired by aquatic interfacial biolocomotion	12
Next 50 years: MRS needs to redouble its efforts to address society’s greatest challenges	12
Implantable nanogenerators for medical research	12
Contact electrification at semiconductor interfaces: The tribovoltaic effect	12
Elucidating the complex interplay between thermodynamics, kinetics, and electrochemistry in battery electrodes through phase-field modeling	12
From biomatter to bioplastics: A perspective on modeling, structure, and data-driven design	11
Polymer nanostructures accelerated with artificial intelligence	11
Tunable auxeticity in hydrogenated carbon nanotube origami metamaterial	11
Enhanced hydrogen diffusivity along tilt grain boundaries of Fe–Cr–Ni alloy revealed by machine learning potential	11
Movers & Shakers	11
Water transforms liquid-metal foam into a growing conductor	11
Rethinking glass structure beyond short-range order: A perspective from atomistic modeling and experimental studies	11
Models of dislocation glide and strengthening mechanisms in bcc complex concentrated alloys	11
Journal Highlights	11
Physics of wurtzite ferroelectrics	11
Challenges in advancing our understanding of atomic-like quantum systems: Theory and experiment	11
First principles explain microscopic origins of electron–hole recombination in silicon	10
Correction: Materials for green hydrogen production, storage, and conversion	10
The most famous physics conference and three degrees of separation	10
All-electrochemical synthesis of tunable fine-structured nanoporous copper films	10
US DOE “commercial liftoff” initiative aims to accelerate commercialization of renewables	10
ML unlocks shareable design rules for superalloys	10
Dielectric elastomer offers coveted operational resilience	10
Biomineral mesostructure	10
Publisher Correction: Next-generation intelligent laboratories for materials design and manufacturing	10
Revealing dynamic-mechanical properties of precipitates in a nanostructured thin film using micromechanical spectroscopy	10
Beyond conventional synthesis: Morphology driven optoelectrical properties of hematite-reduced graphene oxide composites	10
Plant-inspired soft actuators powered by water	9
Graph-theoretic visualization of ion conduction pathways: Concepts and a tutorial	9
Sustainability concerns influence studies reported at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit	9
Collaborations between African and non-African institutions enhance materials research	9
US policy empowers farmers to sequester carbon	9
Halide perovskite solar photovoltaics	9
ChatGPT, a friend or a foe?	9
Wettability of soft PLGA surfaces predicted by experimentally augmented atomistic models	9
Science as Art	9
Critical parameters in the faculty application process: A data-driven analysis	9
Sindhu Nathan worked on climate change policy during Congressional Fellowship	9
Computation and machine learning for materials: Past, present, and future perspectives	9
Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics in atomically thin materials	9
Multiscale modeling of materials and neural operators	9
Utilizing magnetization and spin in thermoelectric applications	9
MRS and AIChE webinar celebrates LGBTQ+ pride	9
Remembering George Crabtree: A luminary in materials science and energy storage	9
Frontiers of biological material intelligence	9
Applications of unified phase-field methods to designing microstructures and mechanical properties of alloys	9
CSIRO forms new partnership to accelerate Australia’s green metals future	8
Optically addressable molecular spin qubits	8

Toward self-organizing low-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites: Machine learning-driven co-navigation of chemical and compositional spaces	8
Toward damage-tolerant bulk metallic glasses: Fracture behavior and brittle–ductile transition	8
Precision nanoscience aided by multimodal observations	8
Ligand-variant two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral heterostructure	8
Publisher Correction: 2022 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit celebrates materials research	8
Journal Highlights	8
Journal Highlights	8
Synthesis of far-from-equilibrium materials for extreme environments	8
Development and outlook of emerging neuromorphic piezotronic devices	8
Classification of the emerging freeform three-dimensional printing techniques	7
Customizable printing of microelectrodes enables novel neurological research capabilities	7
Deep learning-based multimodal analysis for transition-metal dichalcogenides	7
Engineering Research Visioning Alliance identifies key priorities in materials innovation	7
Revealing atomic-to-nanoscale oxidation mechanisms of metallic materials	7
Van der Waals integration: Enables quantum explorations and innovative devices	7
Journal Highlights	7
Complexity, disorder, and functionality of nanoscale materials	7
Design, fabrication, and application of dynamic, stimuli-responsive soft surfaces	7
Nanostructured alloy suppresses embrittlement under high-strain-rate loading conditions	7
Correction: Excitons and excitonic materials	7
Point defects in semiconductors: Friends and foes for quantum technologies	7
MRS Bulletin names Larson as 2023 Postdoctoral Publication Prize recipient	7
Designing compressible metamaterial concrete that can sense structural damage	7
In remembrance: V.S. Arunachalam (1935–2023)	7
Recent progress of underwater triboelectric nanogenerators	7
Opportunities at the frontier of multimaterial additive manufacturing with subvoxel control	7
Magnesium-based thermoelectric materials and modules for low-temperature applications (below 300°C)	7
Influence of protein addition in plant-based cheese	7
Graph theory applied to understand geometric frustration	7
Nanomechanical characterization	7
In remembrance: John B. Goodenough	7
In remembrance: George Crabtree (1944–2023)	7
Optimizing the surface of manufactured components for friction, adhesion, and convective heat transfer	7
Recent advances in liquid phase transmission electron microscopy of nanoparticle growth and self-assembly	7
Making the structure of “fire ice” with nanoparticles	7
Excitons in quantum technologies: The role of strain engineering	7
Patchy nanoparticles with surface complexity for directed self-assembly	7
The 2025 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit introduces next-generation materials and innovations	7
Advances toward diamond electronics	7
Implication of grain-boundary structure and chemistry on plasticity and failure	7
Rethinking circular economy for electronics, energy storage, and solar photovoltaics with long product life cycles	6
Unlocking topological phase transitions in HfTe5 through strain	6
Electrochemical and electrophysiological considerations for clinical high channel count neural interfaces	6
Direct mapping of lattice strain and structure by five-dimensional scanning x-ray diffraction microscopy	6
NSF FAIROS Materials Research Data Alliance Working Groups to hold Town Hall Meeting at 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit	6
Journal Highlights	6
US DOE announces its Quantum Genesis Initiative	6
Phase-field simulations opening new horizons in corrosion research	6
Reversible H-bond orientation is key to MXene non-twist artificial muscles	6
Movers & Shakers	6
MRS Journal Highlights	6
Structure and composition of grain boundaries and their impact on functional properties of energy materials	6
Journal Highlights	6
Entropy flow in thermoelectric/thermochemical transport	6
High throughput and machine learning approaches for thermoelectric materials	6
Researchers print high-resolution, high-performance MXene supercapacitors	6
Putting metal fatigue to rest	6
How the implications of force majeure resulted in the adoption of more sustainable materials	6
PUZZLE X 2022 issues call for early-career scientist participation	6
Journal Highlights	6
Modern strategies in classical fields of nanoindentation: Semiconductors, ceramics, and thin films	6
MaRDA FAIR materials microscopy and LIMS data working groups’ community recommendations	6
Kyung Seok Woo, Texas A&M University: Honored with the 2025 MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize	6
SiC photonics with integrated color centers: Challenges and prospects	6
Mars dreaming on a summer’s day!	6
The past, present, and future of nuclear fuel	6
Science as art	6
Australia’s National Science Agency releases Australian Silicon Action Plan	5
Closed-loop active machine learning framework developed for high-entropy alloys	5
Fracture and toughening mechanisms in nanotwinned and nanolayered materials	5
On the metastability of silicon heterojunction solar photovoltaic modules	5
Flexible multifunctional titania nanotube array platform for biological interfacing	5
The nanoindentation puzzle: Putting the pieces together using simulations at different scales	5
Autonomous synthesis of new ferromagnetic materials combines theory, informatics, and experiment	5
Self-healing polymer exhibits autonomous alignment	5
Broader Impact symposium brings visibility to LGBTQ+-identifying materials researchers	5
Spin-dependent tunneling in 2D MnBi2Te4-based magnetic tunnel junctions	5
JUAMI: Materials for sustainable energy	5
Electrochemical deposition of compact thin films of NiO on ITO and FTO suitable for photoelectrochemical devices	5
Tunable n-type rhenium doping in MoS2 monolayers by atmospheric chemical vapor deposition	5
Cinnamaldehyde- and meropenem-enriched 3D-printed corneal scaffolds for bacterial keratitis	5
Congratulations to the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit “Science as Art” Winners! By popular vote, the following images were chosen as 2nd Place Winners.	5
Arms and the mollusc: An evolutionary arms race has produced armor based on molluscan biomineralization	5
Spectroscopy of point defects in semiconductors	5
The promise of metal-halide-perovskite solar photovoltaics: A brief review	5
Smart hydrogels under light: Emerging paths in biomedical sensing	5
Phase-field modeling of interface dynamics	5
Rapid optical characterization reveals homogeneity of perovskite-inspired material	4
Driving forces for particle-based crystallization: From experiments to theory and simulations	4
Scientific generative AI and materials science: From prediction to physical intelligence	4
Swati Narasimhan named 2025–2026 MRS/Optica Congressional Fellow	4
Nanomaterial-enabled volatilomic systems for portable health diagnostics	4
Universal laser nanostructuring unlocks potential of van der Waals materials	4
Editor-in-the-loop: A perspective in the AI-driven science era	4
Theoretical perspective on phase stability and polarization switching in ferroelectric hafnia	4