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2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
Graduate Student Awards Special Talk Session 1
Tuesday, April 8
12:15 pm – 2:30 pm
Hyatt, Level 5, Room 508, Tahuya
The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. Join the events to support our Graduate Student Award Finalists as they highlight their research.
| Time | GSA Finalist | Institution | Abstract Title |
| 12:15 | Shubhanshu Agarwal | Purdue University | Progress in Solution-Processed Chalcogenide Perovskite Synthesis and Application |
| 12:30 | Dong-Hyeok Kim | Seoul National University | Surface-Binding Molecular Multipods Strengthen Halide Perovskite Lattice and Improve Luminescence Efficiency |
| 12:45 | Sreejith Nair | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Engineering the Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Hybrid MBE-Grown Epitaxial IrO2 Thin Films |
| 1:00 | Varun Shreyas | University of Louisville | Atomic-Scale Mechanisms of Superionic Conduction and Interfacial Phenomena in Sulfide Electrolytes for Solid-State Alkali Metal Batteries |
| 1:15 | Zihao Ye | Northwestern University | A Data-Driven Approach for the Guided Regulation of Exposed Facets in Nanoparticles |
| 1:30 BREAK | |||
| 1:45 | Yun Bai * | Duke University | Digital Composite with Reprogrammable Mechanical Behaviors |
| 2:00 | Somayajulu Dhulipala * | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Disordered Spinodal Metamaterials—Curvature-Guided Properties and Scalable Self-Architecture |
| 2:15 | Hengrui Zhang * | Northwestern University | Investigating Insulator–Metal Transitions in Ti2O3/MnTiO3 Superlattices |
*Nowick Contender