See you in Seattle!

Time and time again, multidisciplinary research is touted as essential to innovation. That is why, from April 7-11, 2025, researchers working in seemingly unrelated fields will gather in Seattle, Washington to promote, share and discuss issues and developments across disciplines at the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit. Meeting venues include the Summit, the Seattle Convention Center's brand new addition, as well as the Hyatt Regency Seattle.

The 2025 MRS Spring Meeting is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science, and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.

Present Your Research

Raise your profile with the materials science community locally and globally—present your research to an international audience of scientists and engineers at the world's foremost scientific gathering for materials research! DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 17, 11:59 PM ET.

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Symposium Topics

BI01—Critical Raw Materials in Emerging Technology

CH01—Characterization of Dynamics and Heterogeneity in Energy Materials

CH02—Emerging Optoelectronic and Quantum Materials—Advanced Multimodal Characterizations

CH03—Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy

CH04—Advances in In Situ/Operando TEM Characterization of Dynamics and Functionalities in Materials

CH05—Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopies from the Visible to the Terahertz Range

EL01—Emerging Solution-Processable Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics and Photonics

EL02—Innovations in Directed Self-Assembly for Next-Generation Nanomanufacturing

EL03—Progress in van der Waals Heterostructures for Sustainable Electronics

EL04—Radiation Effects in Semiconductors for Extreme Environments

EL05—2D and 3D Printed Optoelectronics and Sensors—Advanced Materials, Device Functionality and Systems

EL06—Novel Perovskite Semiconductors and Optoelectronics

EL07—Superconducting Materials

EL08—Ferroic Materials and Heterostructures

EL09—Stability of Metal Halide Perovskites—From Materials to Devices

EL10—Advances in the Fundamental Understanding of Halide Perovskites

EL11—Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Materials, Devices and Applications

EL12—Emerging Material Platforms and Fundamental Approaches for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metasurfaces

EL13—Frontiers in Electrochromic Materials and Devices

EL14—Flexible and Stretchable Optoelectronics and Circuits for Emerging Wearable Electronics

EL15—Fundamentals of Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors

EL16—Nanogenerators and Piezotronics

EN01—Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond

EN02—Sodium-Based Energy Storage

EN03—Scientific Advances in Nuclear Fuels Through Experiment and Modeling

EN04—Concentrating Solar Thermal Materials for Industrial Decarbonization and Heat Storage

EN05—Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics

EN06—Materials for Energy-Storage Systems in Extreme Environments

EN07—Solid-State Alkali-Metal Batteries

MT01—Integrating AI-Assisted Computation and Experimentation for Autonomous Laboratories

MT02—Accelerated Material Discovery—Data-Driven Discovery, High-Throughput Experimentation and Autonomous Laboratories

MT03—Harnessing Data-Centric Strategies for Materials by Design

MT04—Rational Design of Electrocatalysts—Insights into Structure-Function Relationships for Next-Generation Materials

MT05—The Materials Science of Synthesis Across Scales Through Data Science Integration

QT01—Development of 2D Quantum Materials Pipelines (2D-QMaPs)

QT02—Advanced Quantum Magnets and Related Technologies Toward Energy-Efficient Computing

QT03—Recent Advances and New Opportunities in van der Waals Heterostructures

QT04—Transformative Oxide Heterostructures and Membranes for Microelectronics and Energy Technologies

QT05—Emergent Quantum Orderings and Properties in 2D Materials and Heterostructures

QT06—Defects in Solid-State Materials for Quantum Technologies

SB01—Soft Materials in Human–Machine Interfaces—Design, Integration and Performance

SB02—Flexible, Stretchable Biointegrated Materials, Devices and Related Mechanics

SB03—Biopolymers for Electronics and Robotics

SB04—Bioinspired Macromolecular Assembly and Inorganic Crystallization—From Fundamental Science to Applications

SB05—Emerging Bioresponsive Nanomaterials for Theranostics

SB06—Biopolymer Solutions for Climate Change

SB07—Stimuli-Responsive Smart Materials for Intelligent Systems

SB08—Polymer Nanofibers for Bio/Medical Applications

SB09—Bio/Solid Soft Molecular Interfaces—Biology Meets Materials and Technology

SB10—Neuromorphic Biohybrids—Materials, Devices, Interfaces and Computing Principles

SB11—SynBioelectronics

SB12—Soft, Healable Conducting Polymers and Hydrogels for Bioelectronic Interfaces and Wearables

SF01—Thermal Transport in Materials

SF02—Complex Oxide Epitaxial Thin Films

SF03—From Robotic Toward Autonomous Materials

SF04—Flexoelectric Engineering of Functional Materials, Structures and Devices

SF05—Building Advanced Materials via Aggregation and Self-Assembly

SF06—Advances in Chiral Materials

SF07—Complexity Engineering of Materials Combining Order, Disorder and Hierarchical Organization

SF08—Achieving and Exploiting Complexity Through the Synthesis and Application of Hybrid Hierarchical Materials

SF09—Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments

SU01—Solid Materials for Sustainable Cooling—Caloric Effects and Devices

SU02—Enabling Sustainable Polymers—A Holistic View from Feedstock and Synthesis to Application and End-of-Life

SU03—Sustainable Batteries—Recycling and Utilizing Earth-Abundant Materials

SU04—Protons in Solids, Fluids and Molecules

SU05—Materials Innovation for Sustainability and Energy Applications of Critical Elements

SU06—Degradable Materials and Devices

Meeting Chairs

Qian Chen

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sang Ouk Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dongsheng Li

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Matthew Metz

Intel Corporation
Samuel Stranks

University of Cambridge

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