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4 A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Victoria Burt, Managing Editor vicki.burt@asminternational.org Frances Richards and Corinne Richards Contributing Editors Jan Nejedlik, Layout and Design Kelly Sukol, Production Manager kelly.sukol@asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Adam Farrow, Chair, Los Alamos National Lab John Shingledecker, Vice Chair, EPRI Somuri Prasad, Past Chair, Sandia National Lab Beth Armstrong, Oak Ridge National Lab Margaret Flury, Medtronic Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota Nia Harrison, Ford Motor Company Michael Hoerner, KnightHawk Engineering Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology Ibrahim Karaman, Texas A&M University Scott Olig, U.S. Naval Research Lab Amit Pandey, Lockheed Martin Space Satyam Sahay, John Deere Technology Center India Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin Jean-Paul Vega, Siemens Energy Vasisht Venkatesh, Pratt & Whitney ASMBOARDOF TRUSTEES Diana Essock, President and Chair of the Board Judith A. Todd, Vice President Zi-Kui Liu, Immediate Past President John C. Kuli, Treasurer Burak Akyuz Elizabeth Ho man Diana Lados Navin Manjooran Toni Marechaux Jason Sebastian Larry Somrack Priti Wanjara Ji-Cheng Zhao Ron Aderhold, Secretary and Acting Managing Director STUDENT BOARDMEMBERS Ho Lun Chan, PayamEmadi, Casey Gilliams Individual readers of AdvancedMaterials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for per- sonal or archival use, or may freelymake such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote fromarticles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. HOPE EMERGING IN 2021 TimBrosnihan highlights the rapid growth of MEMS technology. T hank goodness it’s 2021! Never has the turning of a calendar been more anticipated around the globe. As the world awaits widespread distribution of newly de- veloped vaccines for COVID-19, there is hope for better times ahead. We look forward to emerging from our bubbles. The biomedical industry is receiving praise for creating these vac- cines in the shortest timeframe in history. Yet all the previous advances in technology, includingmachine learning and data science, enabled these quick turnaround-time discoveries. Likewise, developments in materials science continue to roll out—faster everyday—by building on past successes. What’s next for our industries? New years are full of Top 10 lists. So let’s take a look at some of the most promising emerging technologies to watch this year. The Foresight 2021 report by Lux Research considers innovations across energy, materials, health, and dig- ital sectors. Their Top 12 list (clearly 10 was not enough) includes: 1) autonomous vehicles, 2) national language processing, 3) plastic recycling, 4) AI-enabled sen- sors, 5) bioinformatics, 6) green hydrogen, 7) shared mobility (ride sharing), 8) alternative proteins, 9) 3D printing, 10) materials informatics, 11) precision ag- riculture, and 12) synthetic biology. I am struck by howmany of these areas ASM touches. As materials informat- ics features prominently, see this issue’s lead article from Saarland University, which explores “Machine Learning for Microstructure Classification.” Several of the emerging areas relate to renewable energy and recycling. To increase coverage of this trend, our January issue introduces a new section of in- dustry news on sustainability. We plan to highlight innovations and research re- lated to environmentally friendly materials and processes as we make this page a regular part of our news department. Both sustainable processes and emerging technologies were part of the EDFAS Virtual Workshop in early December. The event included an Emerging FA Techniques session. Keynote speaker, Tim Brosnihan of SEMI, spoke about how micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology is enabling our dig- ital world by playing an important role in industry, health, infrastructure, and alternatives. From the Apple Watch 6 to Vertiports (electric vertical take-off and landing sites) and personal flight vehicles, many of these new applications will require thousands of MEMS sensors. In other news, last November, the DOE’s Advanced Research Proj- ects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) award- ed funding to 17 organizations for projects in its Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Tur- bine Efficiency (ULTIMATE) Program. See ASM News in this issue for details of the technological challenge they all take on. No less than 11 of the 17 proj- ects have ASMmembers as the techni- cal lead. ASM is everywhere! Are we surprised? ASM is bursting with pride at having our members in the ULTIMATE Program and leading many other areas of materials science. It will be exciting to see what innovations our members and the materials science community develop in 2021. The world awaits. joanne.miller@asminternational.org