E-MRS Fall 2026 runs 14–17 September 2026 at Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland.
This is a practical guide to the official poster and presentation rules for the European Materials Research Society's 2026 Fall Meeting & Exhibit: the mandatory A0 portrait poster size, oral presentation time limits across the meeting's 25 symposia, the Young Researcher Award, and the device, crystal-structure, and band-diagram figures that make a materials-science poster worth stopping for. Every date and specification below links to official E-MRS materials.
Transparency note: Illustrations in this article were generated with SciFig AI and reviewed by the author for scientific accuracy. Factual claims about dates and specifications link to official E-MRS materials.
1. E-MRS Fall 2026 at a Glance: Dates, Venue, and Key Deadlines
E-MRS Fall 2026 runs 14–17 September 2026 at Warsaw University of Technology (main campus), Pl. Politechniki 1, Warsaw, Poland, and the abstract notification (already sent 15 July 2026) means most presenters are now in the poster- and slide-preparation window. The scientific programme covers 25 symposia across six clusters — Materials for Electronics, Optoelectronics and Sensing; Functional Materials; Bioinspired and Biomaterials; Nano and Smart Materials; Modelling and Characterisation; and Energy and Environmental Applications (E-MRS 2026 Fall Meeting & Exhibit · Accessed July 21, 2026).
Here is the E-MRS Fall 2026 timeline that matters, drawn from the official E-MRS deadlines page and the abstract submission announcement.
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 9 June 2026 (23:59, Paris time) | Abstract submission deadline (extended) |
| 15 July 2026 | Notification of acceptance and mode of presentation |
| 31 July 2026 | Young Researcher Award application deadline |
| 17 August 2026 | Early registration deadline (€570 full / €350 student) |
| 7 September 2026 (5 p.m. CET) | Online registration closes |
| 14–17 September 2026 | E-MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Warsaw University of Technology |
Registration (early €570, late €680; student rates €350/€410) covers access to all symposia, all poster sessions, the exhibition and workshops, a PDF programme, lunches Monday to Thursday, coffee breaks, the Wednesday-evening social event, one year of E-MRS membership, and one proceedings volume where applicable (E-MRS 2026 Fall registration · Accessed July 21, 2026). This per-registration proceedings option is separate from any single shared conference proceedings volume — see §7 for how symposium papers are actually published.
2. E-MRS Fall 2026 Poster Size, Format, and Guidelines: Mandatory A0 Portrait
An E-MRS Fall 2026 poster must be A0 (841 × 1189 mm), vertical (portrait) orientation — this is a mandatory size, not a maximum, and there is no landscape option and no e-poster or virtual-platform alternative. Posters are displayed across four poster sessions running 14–17 September, and presenting authors must be at their poster during the assigned session for discussion with attendees; each author is responsible for removing their own poster immediately once the session ends (E-MRS 2026 Fall practical information · Accessed July 21, 2026).
A few points shape how you prepare the sheet:
- A0 portrait, no exceptions — design a vertical (tall) layout from the start; there is no landscape or oversized option.
- No tapes or pins needed — E-MRS supplies the hanging system, so you only need to bring the printed sheet itself.
- No on-site printing office — there are print shops within walking distance of the venue, but plan and print before you travel to avoid a last-minute scramble.
- Be present for your assigned session — attendees can preview posters in the morning before the formal session, so a clear visual hierarchy that reads from a few feet away matters.
The device schematics, crystal structures, and band diagrams that fill an E-MRS poster are usually the slowest part of that layout to produce. You can generate publication-grade versions online for free and drop them straight into your composition.
Need a hero figure for your E-MRS poster?
Start from a device stack, a crystal-structure schematic, or a band diagram before you build your A0 portrait layout.
Explore the Tool3. E-MRS Fall 2026 Oral Presentation Time Limits: Plenary, Invited, and Contributed
E-MRS Fall 2026 oral slots come in three lengths, each including Q&A: plenary talks get 45 minutes, invited talks get 30 minutes, and contributed talks get 15 minutes. Which slot you were assigned is stated in your notification of acceptance (sent 15 July 2026), so check that message rather than assuming a default length. Presentations that are not delivered are not included in the final programme, so confirming your slot and building your slides around it early avoids a scramble in the final week (E-MRS 2026 Fall practical information · Accessed July 21, 2026).
A 15-minute contributed talk leaves time for only a handful of slides, which means nearly every E-MRS presentation slide needs one clear figure — a device cross-section, a crystal-structure schematic, or a band diagram — carrying the explanation rather than a paragraph of text.
4. What Figures Do You Need? Device, Crystal Structure, and Band Diagrams for Your E-MRS Poster
Whether you are building a poster or oral slides, E-MRS Fall 2026's materials-science audience expects the same handful of figure types — and because the abstract itself is limited to 3,000 characters of plain text with no figures, your poster and slides carry the entire visual story. The exact mix depends on your symposium (spanning energy materials, semiconductors, biomaterials and nanomaterials, among others, across six clusters), but three jobs recur across the meeting.
On your poster, the recurring materials-science figure types are:
- Device or crystal structure schematic — a device stack cross-section (electrodes, transport layers, active material) or a unit-cell diagram showing the correct coordination geometry. The figure that decides whether your poster gets read.
- Synthesis pathway or reaction mechanism — the processing route or growth mechanism behind your material.
- Band diagram — energy-level alignment at an interface or heterojunction, drawn with the correct band-offset direction.
- Characterisation schematic — the measurement geometry (XRD, synchrotron, or microscopy setup) that produced your data.
On your slides, a 15-minute contributed talk needs one clean figure per slide — usually the single device, crystal, or band diagram that carries the argument. In your abstract itself, remember that E-MRS's web submission form is plain text only — no figures or formulae — so the figure work starts once your abstract is accepted, not before.
Each of these has historically taken hours to build cleanly. You can generate them from a text prompt or turn a hand-drawn device sketch into a clean schematic instead, then refine and export.
Turn your device stack or crystal structure into a diagram
Describe your material system or synthesis route and generate a clean figure you can refine for poster or slide.
Try Free5. Designing a Winning E-MRS Poster: Accuracy That Survives Peer Scrutiny
A winning E-MRS poster passes two tests: it is grasped in a few seconds by a researcher walking the poster hall, and it is precise enough to survive scrutiny from a materials scientist standing in front of it. The best layouts build the A0 portrait sheet around one dominant "hero" figure — usually the device stack, crystal structure, or band diagram with the key result nearby — with supporting panels arranged around it. The closest thing to formal poster recognition at E-MRS is the Young Researcher Award — a €450 grant and diploma, up to two per symposium, for PhD students presenting an oral or poster (application due 31 July 2026: form, abstract copy, work description, and a supervisor's letter) — which rewards the same clarity and rigor a strong hero figure signals.
The second test is where scientific figures live or die — and where general-purpose AI image generators fall short. A tool like Nano Banana Pro or GPT Image can produce something that looks about 99% right, but on a materials-science figure 99% right is effectively 0% right: a wrong coordination number, a reversed band offset, or a swapped device layer turns a compelling poster into one that misleads a reviewer. And a flat, raster AI image gives you no way to fix that last one percent.
This is the core difference with SciFig. Every figure is a fully editable SVG whose elements — atoms, layers, arrows, labels — you can correct individually, so you (the researcher who actually knows the chemistry and physics) close the gap to 100% and sign off on the science. That author-in-the-loop, element-level editing is what separates a publication-grade figure from a plausible-looking one. The materials-science figures that reward this care are exactly the ones a symposium audience scrutinizes:
- Crystal structure coordination — an ABX₃ perovskite's B-site cation should sit inside a corner-sharing BX₆ octahedron; AI generators commonly draw a tetrahedral coordination instead, or octahedra that do not share corners, breaking the lattice topology the figure is supposed to convey.
- Heterojunction band alignment — a wide-bandgap semiconductor heterostructure's conduction- and valence-band offset should bend in the direction dictated by Type-I or Type-II alignment; AI generators frequently draw the band bending, or the Fermi-level pinning, in the wrong direction, which misleads any conclusion about carrier transport.
- Device layer order — a perovskite solar-cell stack (transparent electrode, electron-transport layer, perovskite absorber, hole-transport layer, metal back contact) is not physically valid if the electron- and hole-transport layers are swapped, a mistake AI image generators make more often than researchers expect.
Whether your E-MRS Fall 2026 poster earns its attention comes down to whether these figures are accurate, clear, and legible on an A0 portrait sheet — which is exactly where an editable AI figure workflow compresses days of design work into hours without giving up scientific control.
6. Create Your E-MRS 2026 Figures with AI: The SciFig Workflow
You already have two things most colleagues do not: your accepted abstract and a clear understanding of your material system — use both to generate your figures online for free, then edit them to exactly right. Here is the SciFig workflow for an E-MRS presenter:
Path 1 — Copy a structured prompt. For a device stack, crystal structure, or band diagram, Text-to-Figure gives you the most control. Copy and adjust to your system:
Cross-sectional schematic of a perovskite solar cell device stack:
transparent electrode, electron transport layer, ABX3 perovskite
absorber layer with a magnified BX6 octahedral unit cell inset,
hole transport layer, and metal back contact, each layer labeled.
Path 2 — Sketch and scan. If you sketched your device stack or crystal unit cell on paper, photograph it and drop it into Sketch-to-Figure to get a publication-style version that preserves your topology and layer order.
Path 3 — Upload your manuscript draft. If you are already drafting the full paper for the journal your symposium organizers select (§7 below), PDF-to-Figure parses your Methods and Results and returns a starter diagram in one click — a faster starting point than a blank canvas.
From any path, you edit individual elements in the vector canvas — adjust labels, layer colors, atom positions — and export to editable PPTX or layered SVG for final composition, at high resolution for an A0 print without artifacting. A new SciFig account starts with 150 starter credits plus 50 refill credits every day, which covers a full set of poster figures for most researchers. For the companion guides in this conference series, see the SfN Neuroscience 2026 poster guide and the RSNA 2026 poster guide.
Optional — disclose your AI use. E-MRS has not published a generative-AI use policy as of this writing, but many journals and conferences now ask authors to disclose AI assistance and remain responsible for accuracy. If you build and review a figure in SciFig, you can add one line to its caption — for example: Figure created by the authors using SciFig and reviewed for scientific accuracy (scifig.ai).
Start your E-MRS figure from prompt, sketch, or manuscript
Use the path that matches what you already have, then edit every element until the science is exact.
Try Free7. Where E-MRS Fall 2026 Papers Are Published
E-MRS Fall 2026 does not publish a single shared proceedings volume or abstract book — instead, presenting authors are invited to submit a full paper to a journal matched to their symposium's scope, refereed to that journal's own standards, with the specific journal decided jointly by the symposium organizers and journal editors. Instructions for authors are dispatched together with the notification of acceptance, so check that message (or ask your symposium organizers) for the exact submission process and deadline for your symposium (E-MRS 2026 Fall Meeting & Exhibit · Accessed July 21, 2026).
Because publication runs symposium-by-symposium rather than through one shared supplement, it is worth confirming your target journal early with your session organizers — and because your paper's figures become part of a citable, peer-reviewed record, it is worth making sure the device, crystal-structure, or band-diagram figure on your poster, your slides, and your eventual manuscript all tell the same materials story.
Frequently Asked Questions
References
All specifications and dates above are drawn from official European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) materials, accessed July 21, 2026:
- European Materials Research Society. 2026 Fall Meeting & Exhibit. european-mrs.com. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2026-fall-meeting-exhibit
- European Materials Research Society. Practical Information — 2026 Fall Meeting. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2026-fall/practical-information
- European Materials Research Society. Deadlines. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/deadlines
- European Materials Research Society. FALL 26: Abstract Submission Closed. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/latest-news/fall-26-abstract-submission-closed
- European Materials Research Society. Symposia & Program — 2026 Fall Meeting. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2026-fall/symposia-program
- European Materials Research Society. Registration — 2026 Fall Meeting. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2026-fall/registration
- European Materials Research Society. Young Researcher Awards — 2026 Fall Meeting. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2026-fall/young-researcher-awards
Disclaimer: This article is educational content focused on scientific figure design for conference posters and presentations. Dates and specifications are summarized from official E-MRS materials linked above and were accurate at the time of writing; always confirm current details on the official E-MRS website before printing or submitting. SciFig is a scientific illustration tool for creating figures and schematics.
