Coatings Best Paper Award 2016

Coatings has established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles each year. The prize started in 2015 [1], and as of 2016, it has awarded in two categories: Best Original Research Article and Best Review Paper.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Coatings among the Papers published in 2015, with a selection process based on the number of citations and downloads from the website.

The selection committee—which consisted of three members of the Editorial Board and the Editor in Chief—examined each paper and expressed their preferences, releasing the ranking of the “Coatings Best Paper Award” 2016.

• Original Research Article Award:
• 1st Prize
  Performance Testing of Suspension Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings Produced with Varied Suspension Parameters
  Nicholas Curry, Kent VanEvery, Todd Snyder, Johann Susnjar and Stefan Bjorklund
  Coatings 2015, 5(3), 338–356; doi:10.3390/coatings5030338
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/5/3/338
• 2nd Prize
  Preservation of Historical Stone Surfaces by TiO₂ Nanocoatings
  Giovanni Battista Goffredo and Placido Munafò
  Coatings 2015, 5(2), 222–231; doi:10.3390/coatings5020222
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/5/2/222
• 3rd Prize
  High Energy Radial Deposition of Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings
  Konrad Suschke, René Hübner, Peter Paul Murmu, Prasanth Gupta, John Futter and Andreas Markwitz
  Coatings 2015, 5(3), 326–337; doi:10.3390/coatings5030326
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/5/3/326

• Review Paper Award:
• Bio-Based Coatings for Paper Applications
  Vibhore Kumar Rastogi and Pieter Samyn
  Coatings 2015, 5(4), 887–930; doi:10.3390/coatings5040887
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/5/4/887

These four outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Coatings. On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board, we would like to congratulate these four teams for their excellent work. In recognition for their accomplishment, Dr. Nicholas Curry, Dr. Giovanni Battista Goffredo, Dr. Andreas Markwitz, and Dr. Pieter Samyn will received the privilege to publish an additional paper free of charge in open access format in Coatings after the usual peer-review procedure.

• Prize Awarding Committee
• Editor-in-Chief
  Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
  Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Petri Vuoristo
  Surface Engineering Laboratory, Department of Materials Science, Tampere University of Technology, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Philippe Dubois
  Center of Innovation and Research in Materials & Polymers, University of Mons, Place du Parc, 23 7000 Mons, Belgium
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Robert B. Heimann
  Am Stadtpark 2A, D-02826 Goerlitz, Germany