Scope: This symposium provides the platform for materials researchers working on energy conversion and storage materials and devices, and researchers who study such systems at large-scale facilities. • The 2010 MRS Spring Meeting will feature 42 technical symposia in four topical clusters: Functional Materials includes symposia with focus on electronic materials and devices, plasmonics, sensing, semiconductor processing, superconductors and perovskites. Nanomaterials contains the production and characterization of oxides, nanowires, particles, sheets, and tubes, along with their applications in photovoltaic, optical, or electronic devices. Energy Materials is diverse in symposia dealing with energy production in nuclear materials, thermoelectrics, fuel cell membranes, and organic and inorganic photovoltaics. Energy storage in batteries as well as fundamental energy material issues such as defects and charge transport in photovoltaic materials, new computational and characterization approaches will also be covered. Soft/Biomaterials has a strong emphasis in materials construction via molecular assembly mechanisms with a variety of molecules (such as peptides, DNA, and polymers), spanning the nanoscale through the micro- and macroscale, using a variety of techniques such as evaporative and directive assembly vs self-assembly, for a variety of technologies such as biomedicine, energy, and electronics. Symposium X: Frontiers of Materials Research will feature topics of general interest at the forefront of materials science and engineering. • An international exhibit highlighting products and services of interest to the materials community, ... and much more. • The technical meeting and exhibits will be located at the Moscone West Convention Center Invited speakers Andrew J. Allen, National Institute of Standards and Technology Bill David, ISIS, United Kingdom* Clemens Heske, University of Nevada Las Vegas Adam Hitchcock, McMaster University, Canada Alan J. Hurd, LANSCE, Los Alamos* Eberhard Lehmann, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland* Joel Mesot, ETH Zürich, Switzerland* Pedro Montano, DoE Office of Basic Energy Sciences Henning F. Poulsen, Risø DTU, Denmark, Robert Robinson, The Bragg Institute, ANSTO, Australia * Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Stefan Vajda, Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University Bert M. Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Shu Yamaguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan * invited speakers from the neutron side Symposium organizers Artur Braun - Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Jinghua Guo - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source, Randall E. Winans - Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source Helmut Schober - Institut Max von Laue - Paul Langevin (ILL), BP 1 56,

Visit the Official Website of the meeting on the MRS pages: and have a look to the Welcome to the Meeting Meeting Chairs Contact Information Innovation in Materials Characterization Award (Nominations are being accepted through September 30, 2009 for the Innovation in Materials Characterization Award.) is co-organizer of this symposium and sponsoring a few speakers Partial graduate student support may be available. For information contact Helmut Schober Organizers Invited speakers