Congratulations to all of the Winners of the PHYS Poster Awards at the 2025 Fall ACS meeting in Washington, DC!

After evaluating many excellent poster contributions during the in-person PHYS Poster Session at the ACS Fall Meeting, the judges selected 12 posters for exemplary work. We congratulate all who took part in the event!

Poster Board #877: Delocalization enhances exciton transport in DNA-based molecular photonic wires, Presented by Madelyn Nicole Scott.

Poster Board #941: Transmissive and reflective 2DIR to characterize ultrafast vibrational dynamics of Lehn’s catalyst porous silicon, Presented by Rebecca Hopkins.

Poster Board #951: Potential-dependent cation effects on interfacial H-bond dynamics at 4-MBN monolayers: Insights from 2D-IR spectroscopy, Presented by Austin B. Gilbert.

Poster Board #963: Modeling nanoconfined water using a charge-frustrated XY model, Presented by Hari Rajesh.

Poster Board #1052: Stimulated emission from plasmonic nanoparticles via transient absorption spectroscopy, Presented by Angela Castillo.

Poster Board #1053: High-pressure exciton absorption and emission properties of near infrared lilght-emitting INAS/ZnSe quantum dots, Presented by Ian M Murray.

Poster Board #1059: Characterization and prediction of crystalline hydrates of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, Presented by Emma Singer Covey.

Poster Board #1066: Can ozone initiate oxidation of gaseous Hg(0)? Stability of HgO3 and OHgOO isomers, Presented by Darshi Hewa Edirappulige.

Poster Board #1122: Drug distribution and cellular response upon developed resistance to erlotinib in cultured lung cells, Presented by Raghed Kurbaj.

Poster Board #1136: Power of positivity: What vibrational spectroscopy tells us about metal cation binding in chelators and small peptides, Presented by Harrison Vedrani.

Poster Board #1193: Solvent-mediated control of ceiling temperature for developing chemically recyclable polyesters using thermodynamics, Presented by Ramasinghege Lumbini P. Ramasinghe.

Poster Board #1240: Binding free energy and orientationaly geometry of intermediates as full descriptors for the electrochemical CO2 reduction at Au surfaces by electrochemical vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy (EC-SFG), Presented by Haley Fisher.