Best Angstrom Podcasts (2025)

In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nitin Padture, who is the Otis E. Randall University Professor and the founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy at Brown University, about his group’s work uncovering the cracks in a substrate that was coated with a transparent-conducting oxide thin film. This cracking,…

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DOL v. Americare Healthcare Services 28:35

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DOL v. Americare Healthcare ServicesBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Terrence Burnett v. Faurecia Emissions Control 31:29

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Terrence Burnett v. Faurecia Emissions ControlBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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United States v. David Johnson 25:57

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United States v. David JohnsonBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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US Sportsmens Alliance Fdn v. CDC 35:50

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US Sportsmens Alliance Fdn v. CDCBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Louis Alford v. Brandon Deffendoll 32:46

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Louis Alford v. Brandon DeffendollBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Anthony Warren v. Chester County TN 21:37

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United States v. Rihanna Buddi 31:33

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Soil Friends LLC v. Charter Twp of Comstock MI 22:31

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Soil Friends LLC v. Charter Twp of Comstock MIBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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William Powell Company v. Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited 39:02

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William Powell Company v. Ocean Marine Insurance Company LimitedBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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United States v. Sir Page 28:58

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Randi Bruce v. Adams and Reese LLP 35:32

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Randi Bruce v. Adams and Reese LLPBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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OH ex rel Dave Yost v. Ascent Health Services LLC 39:06

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OH ex rel Dave Yost v. Ascent Health Services LLCBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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United States v. Erik Maund 56:03

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BrownForman Corporation v. NLRB 40:59

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Generation Changers Church v. Church Mutual Ins Co 28:22

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Generation Changers Church v. Church Mutual Ins CoBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Miranda Stovall v. Jefferson Co KY Bd of Ed 34:12

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Miranda Stovall v. Jefferson Co KY Bd of EdBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Sofidel America v. OSHRC 27:49

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Sofidel America v. OSHRCBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Victory Global LLC v. Fresh Bourbon LLC 28:55

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Victory Global LLC v. Fresh Bourbon LLCBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Marvin Cotton v. Donald Hughes 24:46

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Marvin Cotton v. Donald HughesBy Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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Episode 23: Interfacial effects dominate 2D water structure until angstrom-level confinement 6:46

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Mischa Bonn, director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany and Dr. Yongkang Wang, group leader affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as well as Southeast University in Nanjing, China about their research on nanoconfined water. The researcher…

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Episode 22: Cement clinker phases predicted with ML model 4:49

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Anoop Krishnan from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, about a machine learning model developed after a two-year period of collecting data from the cement industry, supported by the Cement and Concrete Research Network. Krishnan’s work resulted in a model that predic…

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Episode 21: Recycling studied from a mechanics-materials perspective 4:37

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Christos Athanasiou from the Georgia Institute of Technology about their approach to the recycling problem from a mechanics-materials perspective. Current recycling approaches can lead to a product with variable properties, which is undesirable. Through a bio-inspired design, Athanasiou’…

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Episode 20: Samarium cobalt magnet fabricated with single-step method 4:01

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Episode 19: Sweet spot found for ligand-stripping oleylamine-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles 4:58

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Yaroslava Yingling and Joseph Tracy from North Carolina State University about their study on iron oxide colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) coated in oleylamine ligands. By combining experimental work with molecular simulations, their research group determined how to optimize ethanol solvent-…

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Episode 18: Superheating gold provides insight into extreme environments 5:45

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Thomas White from the University of Nevada, Reno, about his research group’s work on superheating gold. By hitting the gold foil with 45 femtosecond blue laser pulses, the team heated the foil uniformly up to 14 times hotter than its melting point while maintaining the material’s crysta…

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Episode 17: Hybrid material replaces doping in bandgap engineering 4:57

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Sathvik Iyengar, a PhD candidate at Rice University, about the development of a hybrid material called “glaphene.” A hybrid of graphene and two-dimensional (2D) silica glass, glaphene is a semiconductor with a bandgap of ~4 eV. More importantly, Iyengar and colleagues introduce a new met…

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Episode 16: Mem-emitters achieve memory functionalities 4:25

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Victor Lopez-Richard from Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil about his memory device called a mem-emitter. Unlike a memresistor (short for “memory resistor”), which made of materials whose electrical resistance can be tuned, the mem-emitter is used to tune optical properties. Ex…

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Episode 15: Liquid metal source enables lab-scale 3D XRD microscope 4:56

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Ashley Bucsek from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor about her laboratory-scale three-dimensional (3D) x-ray diffraction (XRD) microscope to replace studies done in synchrotron facilities. A key element of the design is the material used to make the x-rays. Instead of using a solid …

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Episode 14: Mechanical metamaterials reprogrammable via magnetic interactions 4:16

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Daniel Garcia-Gonzalez from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain about his research group’s reprogrammable metamaterial. The researchers use a soft polymer, mixed with magnetic particles. By rotating the orientation of the magnets, they tune the softness or compressibility of the m…

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Episode 13: Moon PV may rely on regolith for substrate 4:54

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To enable future lunar settlements, researchers are pursuing ways to construct needed devices on the moon to save the expense of shipping them from Earth. In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Felix Lang from the University of Potsdam, Germany about his group’s development of perovskite solar cells that utilize the moon’s re…

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Episode 12: Lightweight shape memory alloy retains superelasticity at 4 K 4:04

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Sheng Xu from Tohoku University, Japan about his lightweight shape memory alloy that retains superelasticity at temperatures as cold as 4 K and as hot as 400°C. This range is about 5 times wider than commercial shape memory alloys. Shape memory alloys are needed for extreme environments…

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Episode 11: Synthetic hydrogel combines stiffness and self-healing properties 4:55

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Hang Zhang from Aalto University in Finland about his group’s creation of a composite material that is both stiff and self-healing. The composite involves a hydrogel where the long polymer chains are confined between nanosheets of synthetic hectorite. This material mimics skin that is bo…

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Episode 10: Relaxor ferroelectric thin film characterized at the nanoscale 6:39

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Lane Martin from Rice University about characterization of relaxor ferroelectrics, materials with noteworthy energy-conversion properties used in sensors and actuators. Martin’s research team investigated the material’s behavior at the nanoscale. The researchers found that the specific …

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Episode 9: Stacking materials induces ferroelectricity into wurtzites 5:41

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Beth Dickey from Carnegie Mellon University about her new approach to inducing ferroelectricity into a material. Dickey’s research group worked with a class of materials known as wurtzites. The researchers specifically studied aluminum nitride and zinc oxide, which are not ferroelectric…

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Episode 8: Two-beam interferometry experiment characterizes lightsail propulsion 5:20

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Harry Atwater from the California Institute of Technology about his study on lightsail propulsion in order to understand how the device can be developed to do fly-by space travel riding a beam of laser light. Atwater’s research group made a square prototype device where the researchers i…

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Episode 7: Nanotomography enables insight into the microstructure of a material 4:52

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Ashwin Shahani and Alan Taub from the University of Michigan about their group’s simulations and experimental work detailing the formation mechanisms, morphologies, and microstructures of an in situ Al/TiC metal matrix nanocomposites processed via salt flux reaction. Using these insights…

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Episode 6: Nanocube self-assembly pathways uncovered 4:23

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Xingchen Ye of Indiana University about his research group’s studies on the fundamental behavior of colloidal materials. Colloidal materials consist of liquids with nanoparticles suspended in them. Ye’s team is interested in how a colloidal material’s properties change as the team spati…

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Episode 5: Triboelectric nanogenerator powered by wind-driven leaf motion 5:59

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Fabian Meder from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Piza, Italy about his research group’s device that makes use of wind-driven plant leaf motion to generate electricity which can power a chemical delivery system. Their triboele…

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Episode 4: Researchers pinpoint AI/ML training set to achieve accurate predictions 4:00

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Bowen Deng, a graduate student in Gerbrand Ceder’s group at the University of California, Berkeley, about their work on increasing the accuracy of artificial intelligence/machine learning materials prediction models. The use of computer simulations to predict the interaction between ato…

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Episode 3: Surface defects control bulk properties of lead halide perovskites 3:58

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews David Cahen from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, about the impact surface defects have on bulk properties, specifically in the case of lead halide perovskites. In a perspective he co-authored, Cahen connected numerous experimental data from other researchers that exposed this …

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Episode 2: Compression activates optical tuning in smart window 4:47

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Gwangmin Bae of Korea University about his work with colleagues on the design of a new smart window system that utilizes compression. Like other smart windows, this window makes use of pores within the material to adjust its transparency. However, instead of using a stretchy material th…

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Episode 1: Carbon fiber-based structural battery serves multiple functions 4:33

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Leif Asp of Chalmers University of Technology about his group’s development of an all-carbon fiber-based structural battery. The negative electrode uses carbon fiber and, for the positive electrode, the carbon fiber is coated with lithium iron phosphate. In both cases the carbon fiber ta…

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Episode 23: Frontal polymerization controls materials properties 5:53

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nancy Sottos, the Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign (UIUC), and Justine Paul, a former student at UIUC who now holds a position at DuPont, about their work with frontal pol…

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Episode 22: Additive manufacturing enhances toughness in formable cementitious materials 4:24

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Reza Moini of Princeton University about his group’s development of an enhanced additive manufacturing technique to fabricate cementitious materials with excellent fracture toughness. They based their design of the material on the double-helical or double-bouligand structure of coelacant…

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Episode 21: Hierarchical ceramics resist crack propagation 5:28

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews postdoctoral research fellow Rohit Pratyush Behera and Prof. Hortense Le Ferrand of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore about their design of a strong and tough ceramic that absorbs energy, inspired from biology. They borrowed microscopic designs found in a mollusk, a mantis s…

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Episode 20: Amino-silane treatment extends perovskite performance 4:40

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Yen-Hung Lin of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology about his work to eliminate defects in perovskite solar cells. Lin’s group treated the perovskites with a category of molecules known as amino-silanes, which bind vacancies in the perovskites, preventing recombination of the…

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Episode 19: 4D-STEM measures thermal properties of 2D materials 4:44

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Michael Pettes, deputy group leader and staff scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in Los Alamos National laboratory about a characterization technique that employs a four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscope (4D-STEM) paired with complex computational…

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Episode 18: Glassy gels exhibit numerous mechanical properties 4:55

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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Michael Dickey of North Carolina State University about the discovery and mechanical properties of glassy gels. Dicky credits his postdoc Meixiang Wang who, while studying ionic liquids, created the first glassy gel. Dicky’s group found that the mechanical properties of their glassy gel…