Nature Materials is Now Available


The Library has recently added Nature Materials to the eJournal collection. Nature materials is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. It covers all applied and fundamental aspects of the synthesis/processing, structure/composition, properties and performance of materials, where “materials” are identified as substances in the condensed states (liquid, solid, colloidal) designed or manipulated for technological ends.

Research areas covered in the journal include:

•Engineering and structural materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites)
•Organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers)
•Bio-inspired, biomedical and biomolecular materials
•Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials
•Magnetic materials
•Materials for electronics
•Superconducting materials
•Catalytic and separation materials
•Materials for energy
•Nanoscale materials and processes
•Computation, modelling and materials theory
•Surfaces and thin films
•Design, synthesis, processing and characterization techniques

You can access the journal from here or through the MSKSearch search box on the Library’s Website.

Blog Buzz: February 22 – March 8

Curious about the big Health Systems Meeting? What has the White House announced about Open Access? What is this “Nightmare Bacteria” in the news? All in this dose of blog buzz…

  • In encouraging Open Access news, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a policy memo on February 22 in support of enhanced public access to federally funded research. The White House Blog has links to the full text memo and Chief Science Advisor Dr. John Holdren’s response to the We The People petition. Open Access advocate Peter Suber wrote this post explaining the difference between the White House announcement and the proposed FASTR legislation.
  • National Geographic’s Phenomena blog has a great post from journalist Carl Zimmer explaining recent coverage of “Nightmare Bacteria”.