| Prof | Chong Min | Koo | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea | Materials Science | 2D Materials, Soft Materials, Composites, EMI Shielding, Energy Storage | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Manoj | Tripathi | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | Materials Science | 2D materials, nanoscale tribology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Giorgio | Pettinari | CNR-IFN | Italy | Materials Science | 2D Materials | Most Reader's Article Award | |
| Ms | Najwa | Hamzan | University of Malaya | Malaysia | Materials Science | 1D and 2D materials | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Majid | Montazer | Amirkabir University of Technology | Iran | Other | - | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Himanshu | Raghav | CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum ,Dehradun | India | | | Best Researcher Awards | |