Tag archive: JMR

Better, Faster, Stronger: Building Batteries That Don’t Go Boom

Sian Welch | 4 Jun 2018

Lithium ion batteries hold incredible promise for improved storage capacity, but they are volatile. Much of the problem arises from the use of flammable liquid electrolyte inside the battery. One approach is to use a non-flammable solid electrolyte together with a lithium metal electrode.

2017 JMR Paper of the Year: New model could make metal alloys even stronger

Gary L. Messing | 28 Mar 2018

The Journal of Materials Research Paper of the Year recognizes excellence in advancing materials knowledge through written scholarship. The 2017 JMR Paper of the Year has been awarded to Arvind Kalidindi and Christopher A.…

Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

Artur Braun and Xiaobo Chen | 15 Mar 2018

Hydrogen is one of the most valuable energy carriers and a clean and renewable energy supply. Electrolysis of water, that is, water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen gases under an electrical bias, offers a near-term and long-term solution for the production of hydrogen gas as fuel and for chemical products with large-scale capability.

JMR: Supporting Early Career Scholars in Materials Science

Gary L. Messing | 26 Jan 2018

Journal of Materials Research (JMR) publishes an annual Issue that is devoted to early career scholars in Materials Science. The Issue provides a unique opportunity to be highlighted and promoted early in one’s research career and in order to increase attention to these papers, the issue is fully open access. 

2016 JMR Paper of the Year awarded

Gary L. Messing | 16 May 2017

Gayle and Cook have won the 2016 JMR Paper of the Year, for the development and modeling of an indentation method for mapping the time-dependent viscoelastic and time-independent plastic properties of polymeric-based materials.

Susmita Bose appointed JMR Associated Editor for Biomaterials

Gary L. Messing | 30 Mar 2017

Journal of Materials Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Susmita Bose as Associate Editor for Biomaterials.

Nanotubes? Buckyballs? Diamondoids? All the latest advances in carbon-based tribomaterials revealed in the July Focus Issue of Journal of Materials Research

Vicky Anning | 15 Aug 2016

The July Journal of Materials Research (JMR) Focus Issue highlights some of the latest thinking and remaining challenges when it comes to evaluating the potential of carbon-based materials for tribological systems.

Winner of the 2015 Journal of Materials Research Paper of the Year Award Announced

Gary L. Messing | 29 Mar 2016

Dr. Chong-Min Wang, Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a leading expert in atomic-level characterization/visualization of materials structure using electron microscopy and spectroscopy, is the winner of the Journal of Materials Research (JMR) 2015 Paper of the Year Award