Materials Best Paper Award 2015

Materials has established an annual award for the best article and for the best review published in Materials in order to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of our authors in the area of materials science and engineering.

Papers were selected by the Editors-in-Chief of Materials from among all articles and reviews published in 2011. We are now pleased to announce the five winners for the second edition of “Materials Best Paper Award” for 2015:

• Article Award:

  • First Prize
    Nieves Espinosa, Henrik Friis Dam, David M. Tanenbaum, Jens W. Andreasen, Mikkel Jørgensen and Frederik C. Krebs
    Roll-to-Roll Processing of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells using Hydrated Vanadium(V)Oxide as a PEDOT:PSS Replacement
    Materials 2011, 4(1), 169–182; doi:10.3390/ma4010169
    Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/1/169

  • Second Prize
    Shingo Tachikawa, Atsushi Noguchi, Takeharu Tsuge, Masahiko Hara, Osamu Odawara and Hiroyuki Wada
    Optical Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles Capped with Polymers
    Materials 2011, 4(6), 1132–1143; doi:10.3390/ma4061132
    Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/6/1132

  • Third Prize
    Luigi Russo, Francesco Colangelo, Raffaele Cioffi, Ilaria Rea and Luca De Stefano
    A Mechanochemical Approach to Porous Silicon Nanoparticles Fabrication
    Materials 2011, 4(6), 1023–1033; doi:10.3390/ma4061023
    Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/6/1023
• Review Award:

  • First Prize
    Kirill V. Axenov and Sabine Laschat
    Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals
    Materials 2011, 4(1), 206–259; doi:10.3390/ma4010206
    Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/1/206

  • Second Prize
    Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern, Nurshahidah Ali and Derek Fawcett
    Progress in Nano-Engineered Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membrane Development
    Materials 2011, 4(3), 487–526; doi:10.3390/ma4030487
    Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/4/3/487

The Materials journal team congratulates the authors of these five exceptional papers and acknowledges their valuable contributions to Materials and to our scientific community. In recognition of their accomplishments, Dr. Frederik C. Krebs, Dr. Hiroyuki Wada and Dr. Luca De Stefano, our awardees for their original contributions, will receive 600 CHF, 400 CHF and 200 CHF respectively. In addition, Materials will offer them the publication of a paper in Materials free of charge in open access format after the usual peer-review procedure. The publication of one research paper free of charge in Materials will also be offered to Dr. Sabine Laschat and Dr. Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern, the winners of the Best Review Papers award.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine/Faculty of Dentistry, Duff Medical Science Building, McGill University, 3775 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada; E-Mail: maryam.tabrizian@mcgill.ca

Editor-in-Chief, Section “Biomaterials”

Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

E-Mail: aldo.boccaccini@ww.uni-erlangen.de

Editor-in-Chief, Section “Advanced Composites”

Department of Civil Engineering and Nano_Mates Center, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy

E-Mail: l.feo@unisa.it

Editor-in-Chief, Section “Structure Analysis and Characterization”

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyojadong, Pohang 790-784, Korea

E-Mail: jhje@postech.ac.kr

Editor-in-Chief, Section “Porous Materials”

Departamento de Quimica Organica, Universidad de Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio C-3 (Marie Curie-Anexo), Carretera Nacional IV-A, Km. 396, 14014 Cordoba, Spain

E-Mail: q62alsor@uco.es