Editorial

1 and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) 2 held their annual meetings in March and February 2014, respectively.Some of the highlights of the March Meeting of the APS included presentations of over 9000 abstracts, the observed increase in coercivity in vanadium (III) oxide/nickel bilayers 3 and continued interest in Graphene. 4Over 4300 attendees participated in the TMS Annual Meeting.The highlights of the Meeting included the 2014 TMS RF Mehl Medal Symposium on Frontiers in Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications 5 and Comic-Tanium, an exhibit linking materials science and comic book superheroes.Self-assembly and energy continue to represent challenging and exciting areas of research in materials science, engineering and technology.Natalie A. Wasio and collaborators of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, report their studies of self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded two-dimensional quasicrystals 6 of ferrocenecarboxylic acid.Andreas Pospischil,