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BULLETIN May 1990 A Publication of the Materials Research Society VolumeXV,Number5 ISSN: 0883-7694 CODEN: MRSBEA

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23 The Molecular Engineering 40 MRS Committees Focus on •* •? of Oxides Expansion, Awareness, Von Hippel Address from Excellence in 1990 i%ffigfa .£*5$j*rV the 1989 MRS Fall Meeting 44 1990 MRS Fall Meeting J.B. Goodenough ()iw Call for Papers

DEPARTMENTS FEATURES &££&• .;k^i^ 31 Up Close: Physical 4 Material Matters Chemistry Cluster of the 8 Research/Researchers University of Amsterdam J. Elders 15 Research Resources ON THE COVER: A figure from Prof. John B. Goodenough's Von Hippel Address given at the 35 Up Close: Science of 16 From Washington 1989 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Prof. Materials at Trinity Collège, Goodenough discussed "four fundamental 48 Journal of Materials problems relevant to high Tc superconductivity University of Dublin Research in the copper oxides." In speaking about J.M. Kelly and J. McGilip intergrowth structures he used this figure to 52 Historical Note depict the T/O and T'tetragonal structures of La2CuOv The arrows in the left structure 56 Book Reviews indicate coopérative oxygen-atom displace TECHNICAL FEATURE ments in orthorhombic (0) phase T

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