Final year PGRs Hannah Barnard and Dean Patient recently gave talks at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The MRS Fall meetings are huge events in the materials research calendar with up to 7,000 attendees annually taking part in over 50 symposia spread across a week. For the event, Hannah presented work on ‘Chiral mid-IR Metamaterials for Enhanced Spectroscopy’ and Dean gave a presentation on ‘Graphene mid-IR Thermal Emitters’.
On the experience, Hannah said:
The conference was a wonderful opportunity to network in person, with a very wide range of scientists from within materials research. Since the conference was in America, it also offered the opportunity to chat with researchers, and hear about achievements happening further away from home. In addition to specialist sessions relating to metamaterials in the mid-IR which were very insightful, we also attended a number of sessions about materials research more widely which were very interesting. Both Dean and I presented our work which was an excellent
chance to get some feedback on our current research, and we had lots of interest which was great!
