MRS: no sign of Madonna
The Queen of pop was right when she told us we're living in a material world. Madonna herself isn't here at the Materials Research Society's fall meeting in sunny Boston, but it's obvious that materials science (which seems to mainly mean nanotech) is absoulutely everywhere.
Want better memory storage from your CDs? Then use materials science to build clever patterened surfaces for the discs.
Want to build a brain? You could do worse than going along to the session about interfacing silicon with neurons. And how about this one: mapping nanoscale displacements during loading of human teeth. What can it mean?
I have even had an invitation to go and hear how nanotechnology can save the National Grid. I am intrigued...
