2025 MRS- Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering

Prof. Dr. Hamish Fraser 
Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
The role of modern physical metallurgy in alloy development and materials processing

1. Takuzo Aida 
   Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering,The University of Tokyo, Japan
   Supramolecular Plastics for a Sustainable Future
   
   

2. Pulickel Ajayan 
   RICE University, Houston, USA
   2D and 3D phases of boron-carbon-nitrogen compositions
   
   

3. Frank Caruso
   The University of Melbourne, Australia
   Nanoengineering biomaterials: from assembly to in vivo delivery and function
   
   

4. Hui-Ming Cheng  
   Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, CAS; Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
   Repairing and upcycling of electrode materials from spent lithium ion batteries
   
   

5. Andrea C. Ferrari 
   University of Cambridge, UK
   Graphene and layered materials for photonics, optoelectronics and quantum technologies
   
   

6. Yury Gogotsi 
   Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
   Assembly of MXene-Based Materials with a Multitude of Functionalities
   
   

7. Horst Hahn 
   The University of Oklahoma, USA
   
   

8. Yu Huang 
   University of California Los Angeles, Samueli School of Engineering, USA
   Accelerating catalyst design for sustainable energy future

    

9. Joseph T. Hupp 
   Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   Designing, Constructing, and Uniformly Accessing Arrays of Clusters of Atomically Precise Composition for Heterogeneous Catalysis of Chemical Reactions
   
   

10. Mercouri Kanatzidis 
    Northwestern University, USA
    Halide perovskites: Pioneering materials for clean energy and advanced technologies
    
    

11. Luis M. Liz-Marzán 
    CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastián, Spain
    New directions in colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis
    
    

12. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin 
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    
    

13. Maurizio Prato 
    Ikerbasque Research, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, San Sebastián. Spain
    Synthesis and properties of novel carbon nanodots
    
    

14. Rishi Raj 
    University of Colorado, Cornell University, USA
    Electrification of materials synthesis
    
    

15. Rui L. Reis 
    University of Minho, Portugal
    Tackling Complexity in Tissue Engineered Cell/Material Interactions and Methods to Generate Different Complex In Vitro Disease Models 
    
    

16. Rodney  S. Ruoff 
    Institute for Basic Science, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan, South Korea
    New methods to grow diamond and cubic boron nitride
    
    

17. Vladimir Torchilin
    Northeastern University, Boston, USA
    Novel materials for nanosized drug delivery systems 
    
    

18. Jiang Ping Tu  
    Zhejiang University, China
    Stress-dissipation strategy stabilized solid oxide cathodes for high-performance all-solid-state lithium batteries
    
    

19. Younan Xia 
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
    Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Moving from Academic Studies to Industrial Applications 
    
    

20. Hua Zhang 
    City University of Hong Kong; China
    Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials (PEN)