We are pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2025 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Materials from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation by the journal’s Award Committee, led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Eugenia Valsami-Jones, of the originality and significance of the papers, as well as citations and downloads, six winning papers were selected, with further details presented below:

Articles:
“Laser-Induced Graphene Microsupercapacitors: Structure, Quality, and Performance”
by Andres Velasco, Yu Kyoung Ryu, Assia Hamada, Alicia de Andrés, Fernando Calle and Javier Martinez
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(5), 788; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13050788

“The Effect of Silica Particle Size on the Mechanical Enhancement of Polymer Nanocomposites”
by Evagelia Kontou, Angelos Christopoulos, Panagiota Koralli and Dionysios E. Mouzakis
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(6), 1095; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13061095

“Revealing the Dependency of Dye Adsorption and Photocatalytic Activity of ZnO Nanoparticles on Their Morphology and Defect States”
by Yuri Hendrix, Erwan Rauwel, Keshav Nagpal, Ryma Haddad, Elias Estephan, Cédric Boissière and Protima Rauwel
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(13), 1998; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13131998

Reviews:
“A Review of the Current State of Magnetic Force Microscopy to Unravel the Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterials Applied in Biological Systems and Future Directions for Quantum Technologies”
by Robert Winkler, Miguel Ciria, Margaret Ahmad, Harald Plank and Carlos Marcuello
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(18), 2585; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13182585

“Status and Challenges of Blue OLEDs: A Review”
by Iram Siddiqui, Sudhir Kumar, Yi-Fang Tsai, Prakalp Gautam, Shahnawaz, Kiran Kesavan, Jin-Ting Lin, Luke Khai, Kuo-Hsien Chou, Abhijeet Choudhury, Saulius Grigalevicius and Jwo-Huei Jou
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(18), 2521; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13182521

“Cerium-Based Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution/Reduction Reactions: Progress and Perspectives”
by Huiyi Zhang, Yan Wang, Daqi Song, Liang Wang, Yifan Zhang and Yong Wang
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(13), 1921; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13131921

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive a respective prize of CHF 200–500, an electronic certificate, and the opportunity to publish one paper free of charge in Nanomaterials following peer review before the end of December 2025.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Nanomaterials 2025 Best Paper Award on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Nanomaterials and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Nanomaterials Editorial Office