April 7 - 11, 2025

Seattle, Washington

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2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

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

The 2025 MRS Spring Meeting served as a key forum for presenting research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provided a window into the future of materials science and offered researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—an invaluable opportunity to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.

More than 4,000 attendees gathered to explore interdisciplinary research in both fundamental and applied areas. The exhibit floor showcased industry innovations, while poster sessions encouraged collaboration and exchange.

The inaugural Industry Track launched with a keynote on research-industry collaboration and the future of sustainable materials. MRS TV featured interviews on generative AI in materials science, and sessions like QT06 addressed defects in solid-state materials for quantum technologies.

The 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit fostered a dynamic space for innovation and global scientific exchange.

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2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

Latest Meeting News

Apr 11, 2025

MRS Meeting Scene—Read highlights from Seattle!

Meeting Scene captured the highlights Seattle—showcasing groundbreaking research, inspiring sessions, and dynamic networking. Relive the excitement and explore event coverage, photos, and interviews!

Mar 10, 2025

2025 MRS Fellows announced

Honoring MRS Members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research worldwide.

Apr 02, 2025

Join us in honoring the 2025 MRS Spring Award recipients!

Celebrate the achievements of these distinguished awardees at the MRS Award Recipients Lightning Talks and Panel Discussion in Seattle. Gain insights from their groundbreaking contributions to materials research.

Feb 28, 2025

Click here for the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting program

Dive into the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting agenda! Click on the link above to access the full program, view the Meeting's tutorial sessions, and view our topical clusters and Call for Papers information.

Dec 10, 2024

James De Yoreo and David Baker named Fred Kavli Distinguished Lecturers in Materials Science for 2025 MRS Spring Meeting

MRS announced that James De Yoreo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington, and David Baker, University of Washington, have been selected for the Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science.

Feb 10, 2025

Recognizing excellence in the field of materials research

Congratulations to the 2025 MRS Communications Lecturer, Kelvin Fu, University of Delaware. He'll present at the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in Seattle.

Apr 19, 2024

MRS announces exciting Spring Meeting locations through 2030

Building on our commitment to fostering innovation and collaboration, MRS is set to host its prestigious events in Honolulu, Hawai’i, and Seattle, Washington between the years 2026 and 2030.

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2025 MRS Spring Meeting Highlights

Thanks for joining us at the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle! Catch up on all the highlights with MRS TV, our daily show featuring interviews on key issues facing the materials community and coverage of the most exciting moments from the event, held April 7–11, 2025.

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 in 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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