Materials Science and Engineering Headlines

John Rogers is among 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," worth $500,0000.

Jianjun Cheng and researchers have created a one-pot approach to creating highly uniform polymers for a range of self-assembly applications.

Jennifer Lewis received an American Chemical Society Langmuir Lecture Award at the 2009 Fall ACS meeting.

David Payne has been selected as the 2009 W.R. Buessem Award winner by the Center for Dielectric Studies at Penn State. The recognition is for "outstanding contributions in the field of dielectrics and piezoelectrics."

A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.