Scientific Program

OPENING CEREMONY, Main Conference Hall

08³⁰-09⁰⁰   
Welcome Speech - Dragan Uskoković, president of MRS-Serbia

Welcome Address - Yury Gogotsi, president of international advisory board

Welcome Address - Aldo Boccaccini, past president of FEMS

Presentation of YUCOMAT 2025 Awards for young authors with the best PhD thesis, oral and poster presentations

09⁰⁰-09⁴⁵   
MRS-Serbia 2026 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering
Horst Hahn
Special Advisor to the Senior Vice President of Research & Partnerships, University of Arizona, 750 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, United States                        
Recent progress in fusion energy and outlook

09⁴⁵-10³⁰ Coffee Break

FIRST PLENARY SESSION, Main Conference Hall

Session I:   10³⁰-12³⁰

Theme: Functional Materials for Emerging Technologies
Chairpersons: Prashant Kamat, Paras Prasad, Ulrich Schubert

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ PL.S.1.
Multi-scale modeling and AI-guided development of multifunctional nanomaterials for space technologies
Paras N Prasad
Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Medicine State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ PL.S.2.
Halide perovskites: Exploring applications beyond photovoltaics
Prashant V. Kamat, Akshaya Chemmangat, Manish Mukherjee
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

11³⁰-12⁰⁰ PL.S.3.
Colloidal perovskite quantum dots: from discovery to quantum light
Maksym V. Kovalenko
ETH Zürich, Dept. of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland and
Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland

12⁰⁰-12³⁰ PL.S.4.
Sustainable polymers for the 21^st century
Ulrich S. Schubert
Laboratory for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstrasse 10, 07743 Jena, Germany, Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7, 07743 Jena, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena (HIPOLE Jena), Lessingstrasse 12-14, 07743 Jena, Germany

12⁴⁰ Photo session

13⁰⁰-15⁰⁰ Break

SECOND PLENARY SESSION, Main Conference Hall

Session II: 15⁰⁰-17³⁰

Theme: Advanced Biomaterials Science
Chairpersons: Xiaoyuan Chen, David Weitz, Vladimir Torchilin

15⁰⁰-15³⁰ PL.S.5.
Asymmetric liposomes as model exosomes
David A. Weitz
Harvard University, USA

15³⁰-16⁰⁰ PL.S.6.
Cancer Nanovaccine
Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen
Center for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CNMMI), Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences

16⁰⁰-16³⁰ PL.S.7.
Biomedical polymeric materials-based delivery systems for siRNA
Vladimir Torchilin
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

16³⁰-17⁰⁰ PL.S.8.
Bioactive glasses as versatile building blocks for tissue engineering, bioprinting and ionic medicine
Aldo R. Boccaccini
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

17⁰⁰-17³⁰ PL.S.9.
Lignin a versatile biopolymer from date palm biomass
Mohammad Jawaid
Department of Chemical and petroleum Engineering, College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE

20⁰⁰ Cocktail Party