MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

About MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

Materials News podcast by MRS Bulletin provides breakthrough news & interviews with researchers on hot topics including biomaterials, quantum materials, artificial intelligence, sustainability, perovskites, and robotics. Produced by the Materials Research Society.

Publisher

MRS Bulletin

Category

news · news · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2019

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

142 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Episode 16: A new approach to creating metal-organic framework glasses with tunable properties

   In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Professor Sebastian Henke and graduate student Jan-Benedikt Weiß from TU Dortmund University in Germany about their research, which uses coordination chemistry to produce metal organic framework glasses. Using a chemical agent as both a flux and a chemically specific coordination sphere modifier, they are able to tune the properties of the MOF glasses as well as create glasses from crystalline MOFs for the first time. This work was...

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Episode 15: Modifying chloroplasts in lettuce to produce meaty proteins

   In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Alexia Groff, a recent PhD graduate from Imperial College London, about growing genetically modified lettuce to produce myoglobin, an iron-containing protein found in meat. Companies could extract this myoglobin for plant-based meatless alternatives. This work was published in a recent issue of Frontiers in Plant Science.

3. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Episode 14: Automating a nanoindenter for a self-driving laboratory

   In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Vivek Chawla of Sandia National Laboratories about his research group’s automation of a nanoindentation machine, which probes materials locally to characterize mechanical properties. The work paves the way to incorporating an automated nanoindenter for a self-driving laboratory for materials discovery. This work was published in a recent issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.

Who has been a guest on MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Henry Quansah Afful
• Christos Athanasiou
• Danqi Sun
• Matt Dickerson
• Carlos Portela

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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