First Place – Bandgap Engineering of Strained Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2 Nano Letters Hiram Conley, Bin Wang, Jed Ziegler, Richard Haglund, Sokrates Pantelides, Kirill Bolotin
Second Place – Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial Nature Photonics Parikshit Moitra, Yuanmu Yang, Zachary Anderson, Ivan Kravchenko, Dayrl Briggs, Jason Valentine
Third Place –Balancing Cationic and Hydrophobic Content of PEGylated siRNA Polyplexes Enhances Endosome Escape, Stability, Blood Circulation Time, and Bioactivity in Vivo ACS Nano Chris Nelson, James Kintzing, Ann Hanna, Joshua Shannon, Mukesh Gupta, Craig Duvall
Fourth Place – Long-range ferromagnetic ordering in manganese-doped two-dimensional dichalcogenides Physical Review B Rohan Mishra, Wu Zhou, Stephen Pennycook, Sokrates Pantelides, Juan-Carlos Idrobo
Fifth Place – Molecular Insights into Carbon Supercapacitors Based on Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Guang Feng, Song Li, Volker Presser, Peter Cummings