Abstract
WINTER ARRIVED FASHIONably late to this year's Materials Research Society (MRS) annual meeting, giving conferees three balmy-for-Boston days before settling into the chilly drizzle they've come to expect from the event, held for the past 28 years in Beantown. The season's tardiness was appropriate, though, as fashion took center stage at this year's meeting. During the afternoon breaks on the second and third days of the event, held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, attendees were treated to a geek-chic fashion show that featured technologically advanced clothing made possible by materials research. Professional models and MRS student members strutted side by side down the catwalk sporting silver-coated antibacterial textiles, denim jackets equipped with solar cells, and tank tops illuminated by nanostructured optical fibers attached to light-emitting diodes. In the words of Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray, All the clothes showed off recent developments in materials research, an unsexy but vital ...
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