Congratulations to all of the Winners of the PHYS Poster Awards at the 2026 Spring ACS meeting in Atlanta, Georgia!

After evaluating many excellent poster contributions during the in-person PHYS Poster Session at the ACS Spring Meeting, the judges selected 15 posters for exemplary work. We congratulate all who took part in the event!

Poster Board 25: Dubnium vs. Tantalum: Computational interpretations of directly identified heavy element molecular species for comparison with transition metal analogues. Presented by Sarah Sprouse

Poster Board 49: Coacervate-assisted mineral leaching for phosphorylation in a primordial soup. Presented by Sean Zsoldos

Poster Board 58: Hydroxyl radical generation in synthetic melanin exposed to UVA radiation. Presented by Ruby Mitchell

Poster Board 97: Unraveling symmetry-breaking charge transfer in ALICE-MOF. Presented by Nikita Gupta

Poster Board 169: Probing the phase behavior of catanionic mixtures of surfactants using steady-state and time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance. Presented by Max Spies

Poster Board 214: Optimization of a coarse-grained model for RNA based on parameters for DNA. Presented by Maria Fernald

Poster Board 218: Mechanistic studies on the excited state dynamics of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene. Presented by Shi Fang Chen

Poster Board 289: Mitigating overestimation in rehydroxylation dating: Residual hydroxyls and the role of firing temperature in ancient pottery. Presented by Kylie McCoy

Poster Board 321: III-V semiconductors bulk v. surface. Presented by Quinlon Williams

Poster Board 392: Carbodicarbenes as hydride donor catalysts in heteroallene reductions. Presented by Max Schernikau

Poster Board 404: Beyond the ensemble average: Single-molecule characterization of rhodamine fluorescence. Presented by Jake Ankrum

Poster Board 488: DFT QSAR model for CDK6 inhibitors as breast cancer treatment. Presented by Grace Gottschalk

Poster Board 520: Ultrafast dynamics of ammonium thiocyanate under vibrational strong coupling. Presented by Avram Gutierrez

Poster D3: Electrochemical and surface studies of selenium-modified gold electrodes. Presented by Lily Mansfield and Karan Philip

Poster D15: Probing spin-correlated radical pair evolution in donor-chiral bridge-acceptor molecules using photo-CIDNP. Presented by Ashly Gasior