MRS Meeting Scene—Call for Reporters and Bloggers

Graduate students and post-docs who are interested in contributing to the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting Meeting Scene newsletter and the Meeting Blog, either on-site (November 29-December 2, 2021) or virtually (December 6-8, 2021), are encouraged to apply. 

Reporters will be required to attend talks in a variety of symposia and write brief summaries (100-250 words) of four talks each day; bloggers will be required to post at least five items per day and also tweet about their experiences at the meeting. Reporters and Bloggers will have their registration reimbursed up to the student rate. In addition, on-site volunteers will receive a stipend of $50 toward their on-site expenses.

To apply, please send an email to [email protected] stating your qualifications and your reasons for wanting to report or blog for us. We need only four reporters and four bloggers, so we will not be able to accept everyone who applies. Apply now! We look forward to hearing from you! 

Best Oral Presentation Awards

Akriti Akriti, Purdue University
EN06.02.06—Late News: Quantized Halide Diffusion in 2D Perovskite Vertical Heterostructures

Virgil Andrei, University of Cambridge
EN02.06.03—Late News: Rational Design of Photoelectrochemical Perovskite-BiVO4 Tandem Devices for Selective Syngas Production

Jesus Canas, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Universidad de Cádiz
EL04.11.05—Normally-OFF Diamond Reserve Blocking MESFET

Wei Chen, Université Catholique de Louvain
EN07.12.09—Late News: Origin of Low Conversion Efficiency of Cu2ZnSnS4 Kesterite Solar Absorber—The Actual Role of Cation Disorder

Jacob Cordell, Colorado School of Mines, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
EL03.05.02—Configurational Order-Disorder Transitions in ZnGeN2

Phillip Dang, Cornell University
NM01.03.05—Late News: An Epitaxial GaN/NbN Heterostructure Exhibiting Concurrent Superconductivity and Quantum Hall Effect

Shuo Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington State University
EN09.04.02—Rational Design of Sulfur Cathode for High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Marco Gigantino, ETH Zürich
EN05.02.06—Pure and Mixed Metal Oxides for High-Temperature Thermochemical Energy Storage via Reversible Redox Reactions

Hongchen Guo, National University of Singapore
SM06.05.04—Artificially Innervated Foams—Biomimetic Self-Healing Synthetic Piezo-Impedance Sensor Skills

Justin Hoffman, Northwestern University
EL02.03.04—Long Periodic Ripple in a 2D Hybrid Halide Perovskite Structure Using Branched Organic Spacers

Jesse A. Johnson, University of Florida
CT02.05.02—Time Resolved Reflectometry With Pulsed Laser Melting of Implant Amorphized Si1-xGex Thin Films

Vincent Kadiri, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Universität Stuttgart
SM06.01.03—Materials for Magnetically Actuated Micro and Nanorobots

Jonas Kaufman, University of California, Santa Barbara
EN03.03.03—Hierarchical Intercalent Orderings in Layered Oxides for Na- and K-Ion Battery Electrodes

Fabian Landers, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
SM06.01.06—3D Metal-Organic Microrobots

Ciana Lopez, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Research Institute
SM04.09.04—Late News: A Platform for Macrophage—Mediated Delivery of Polymeric Prodrugs to Solid Tumors

Hanieh Moradian, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), University of Potsdam
SM04.06.03—Nucleic Acid Co-Delivery-How to Modulate Protein Co-Expression by Formulation of Payload

Hyunseok Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ST04.02.02—Short-Range Order Strengthening in 3D Transition Metal-Based Complex Concentrated Alloys

Mizuki Ohno, The University of Tokyo
NM03.09.06—Late News: Two-Dimensional Quantum Oscillations Observed in Magnetic Topological Semimetal EuSb2 Films

Carlos Portela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ST03.03.06—Late News: Nano-Architected Carbon for Supersonic Impact Mitigation

Ahmed Tiamiyu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ST01.12.06—Microparticle Impact at Very High Velocities Does Not Necessarily Improve Bonding

Jiayue Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EN10.03.04—Tuning Metal Nanoparticle Exsolution on Perovskite Surface with Strain-Modified Point Defect Formation

Max Wood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northwestern University
EL03.07.02—The Effect of Multi-Band Transport on Thermal Conductivity Seen in Yb14Mg1-xAIxSb11

Yadong Yin, University of California, Riverside
EL06.02.03—Late News: Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photothermal Conversion

Edoardo Zatterin, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
CT03.03.05—Local Structure and Switching of Ferroelectric/Ferroelastic Superdomains Probed by Scanning X-Ray NanoDiffraction

Wenjie Zhou, Northwestern University, International Institute for Nanotechnology
NM05.07.02—Shape-Driven, DNA-Mediated Engineering of Colloidal Superlattices