MRS Postdoctoral Award
The MRS Postdoctoral Award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who are showing exceptional promise.
MRS acknowledges the Jiang Family Foundation and MTI Corporation for their generous contribution to support this award.
About the Award
The MRS Postdoctoral Award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who are showing exceptional promise that may include, for example, excellence in scientific research, leadership, advocacy, outreach, or teaching, during their postdoc assignment.
Award Package
Each award consists of a $2,000 honorarium, award trophy, citation certificate, meeting registration fee to attend the Materials Research Society's Spring Meeting at which the award is presented, and a one-year MRS membership.
Nomination Information
Nominations for the MRS Postdoctoral Award will be accepted June 1 through August 1. Rules and eligibility, nomination package requirements and more are available here.
"For pioneering development of computational methods to study excited states in Moiré superlattices and discovering a unique charge-transfer Moiré exciton"
"For the development of transient biomedical implants designed to provide therapeutic function over a clinically relevant timeframe, reducing costs and risks associated with surgical extraction."
"For pioneering research in developing and understanding van der Waals heterostructures and superlattices."
"For the discovery of atomically-thin interfacial ferroelectricity in van der Waals heterostructures"
"For discovery of mechanisorption, a fundamentally new mode of adsorption"
"For fundamental contribution to the knowledge and development of flash sintering phenomena and processes in ceramics"
"For pioneering correlated dynamic structure and transport studies, and the discovery of a new electrically-triggered metastable phase in an operating device"
“For creating tunable nanogenetic near-infrared light sensors to restore vision”
“For his outstanding contributions to the fields of porous materials, nanochemistry, and supramolecular assembly”
“For developing stretchable, self-healing materials for smart electronics”
“For the pioneering research in ferroelectric polymers to achieve high piezoelectric responses, and outstanding contributions to understanding of relaxor ferroelectricity in polymers”
“For developing fabrication strategies and operando imaging techniques for nanoscale electrochemical materials systems important for environmental and energy applications”
“For the innovative and pioneering research in wood nanotechnology and nanocellulose toward energy, water and sustainability”
“For contributions to the assembly of nanocrystal superstructures”
“For contributions to the design of safe battery materials and systems, leadership of students and advocacy for women scientists and engineers”
"For foundational theoretical and computational contributions to the study of structure and transport in charged polymers and organic semiconductors”
“For advancing the understanding of nanoparticle assemblies under stress”
“For the development of sustainable organic materials to achieve high-performance energy storage devices and understanding their redox mechanisms ”
“For the development of dopant-free, selective contacts for high-efficiency Si photovoltaics ”
“For applying polymer physics concepts to realize integrated, intrinsically stretchable transistors for skin electronics”
“For groundbreaking experiments providing evidence of topological excitations in a two-dimensional magnet, moving toward lossless qubits in quantum computing ”
“For creative research in chemically exfoliated 2D materials and tireless dedication to mentoring women in science and engineering.”
“For developing a family of stable, reproducible and highly efficient multi-cation perovskites for optoelectronics.”
"For pioneering research to improve the efficiency and wider applicability of mechanical energy harvesting systems”
“For innovation in hybrid perovskite photovoltaics, addressing fabrication, lifetime, and toxicity issues”
Qi Li, The Pennsylvania State University
“For advancing the field of polymer nanocomposites for electrical energy storage and conversion.”
Yongming Sun, Stanford University
“For advancing the development of high-capacity battery materials.”
“For the development of state-of-the-art organic electronic devices for interfacing with biology, through the elucidation of structure versus electrical properties relationships”
“For innovative research developing self-healing electronic materials and utilizing the self-healing concept to achieve high-performance, long lifetime electronic and energy storage devices”
“For outstanding theoretical and experimental contributions to understanding transport in polymer films and membranes and novel nano- and micro-patterning methodologies, and his dedicated mentorship of graduate and undergraduate student researchers”
“For advances in in situ transmission electron microscopy instrumentation for electrochemical studies and quantitative understanding of nanoscale processes taking place in energy storage systems”
“For pioneering contributions to the theoretical understanding of strain-mediated electric-field-induced magnetization switching in magnetoelectric nanostructures and for designing prototypes of magnetoelectric devices”
“For the innovative development of multifunctional ionic devices via vertically aligned heterostructures, and outstanding contributions for theoretical and experimental understanding of them.”
“For innovative research on 2D materials, creative and artistic ways of presenting science, dedication to and love of teaching, and student mentoring.”
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