2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

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Abstract Submissions are Open!

Breaking News Submissions accepted December 13, 2024 - January 8, 2025

This is your final chance to contribute to the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit! Submit your abstract before the deadline on January 8, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET.  

Scroll down to view presentation resources, topical clusters, a list of symposia, and other Call for Papers information.


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Submission deadline: January 8, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET

December 13, 2024, 8:00 am ET
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Topical Clusters

  • BROADER IMPACT (BI)
  • CHARACTERIZATION (CH)
  • ELECTRONICS, OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (EL)
  • ENERGY (EN)
  • MATERIALS THEORY AND COMPUTATION, DATA SCIENCE, MATERIALS PHYSICS (MT)
  • QUANTUM MATERIALS, INTERFACES AND TOPOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (QT)
  • SOFT MATERIALS AND BIOMATERIALS (SB)
  • STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (SF)
  • SUSTAINABILITY (SU)

List of Symposia

Symposium BI01-Critical Raw Materials in Emerging Technology

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Symposium CH01-Characterization of Dynamics and Heterogeneity in Energy Materials

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Symposium CH02-Emerging Optoelectronic and Quantum Materials—Advanced Multimodal Characterizations

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Symposium CH03-Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy

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

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Symposium CH05-Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopies from the Visible to the Terahertz Range

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Symposium EL01-Emerging Solution-Processable Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics and Photonics

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

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Symposium EL03-Progress in van der Waals Heterostructures for Sustainable Electronics

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Symposium EL04-Radiation Effects in Semiconductors for Extreme Environments

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

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Symposium EL06-Novel Perovskite Semiconductors and Optoelectronics

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Symposium EL07-Superconducting Materials

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Symposium EL08-Ferroic Materials and Heterostructures

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

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Symposium EL10-Advances in the Fundamental Understanding of Halide Perovskites

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Symposium EL11-Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Materials, Devices and Applications

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

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Symposium EL13-Frontiers in Electrochromic Materials and Devices

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Symposium EL14-Flexible and Stretchable Optoelectronics and Circuits for Emerging Wearable Electronics

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Symposium EL15-Fundamentals of Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors

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Symposium EL16-Nanogenerators and Piezotronics

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Symposium EN01-Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond

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Symposium EN02-Sodium-Based Energy Storage

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Symposium EN03-Scientific Advances in Nuclear Fuels Through Experiment and Modeling

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Symposium EN04-Concentrating Solar Thermal Materials for Industrial Decarbonization and Heat Storage

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Symposium EN05-Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics

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Symposium EN06-Materials for Energy-Storage Systems in Extreme Environments

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Symposium EN07-Solid-State Alkali-Metal Batteries

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

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

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Symposium MT03-Harnessing Data-Centric Strategies for Materials by Design

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

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Symposium MT05-The Materials Science of Synthesis Across Scales Through Data Science Integration

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

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

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Symposium QT03-Recent Advances and New Opportunities in van der Waals Heterostructures

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Symposium QT04-Transformative Oxide Heterostructures and Membranes for Microelectronics and Energy Technologies

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Symposium QT05-Emergent Quantum Orderings and Properties in 2D Materials and Heterostructures

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Symposium QT06-Defects in Solid-State Materials for Quantum Technologies

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

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Symposium SB02-Flexible, Stretchable Biointegrated Materials, Devices and Related Mechanics

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Symposium SB03-Biopolymers for Electronics and Robotics

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

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Symposium SB05-Emerging Bioresponsive Nanomaterials for Theranostics

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Symposium SB06-Biopolymer Solutions for Climate Change

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Symposium SB07-Stimuli-Responsive Smart Materials for Intelligent Systems

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Symposium SB08-Polymer Nanofibers for Bio/Medical Applications

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

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

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Symposium SB11-SynBioelectronics

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

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Symposium SF01-Thermal Transport in Materials

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Symposium SF02-Complex Oxide Epitaxial Thin Films

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Symposium SF03-From Robotic Toward Autonomous Materials

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Symposium SF04-Flexoelectric Engineering of Functional Materials, Structures and Devices

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Symposium SF05-Building Advanced Materials via Aggregation and Self-Assembly

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Symposium SF06-Advances in Chiral Materials

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

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

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Symposium SF09-Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments

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

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

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

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Symposium SU04-Protons in Solids, Fluids and Molecules

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Symposium SU05-Materials Innovation for Sustainability and Energy Applications of Critical Elements

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Symposium SU06-Degradable Materials and Devices

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