Announcements

Conference: 2023 China Biomaterials Conference (CSBM2023)
Date: 12–15 October 2023
Booth: #B4

MDPI journals will be attending the 2023 China Biomaterials Conference (CSBM2023) as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Chongqing, China, from 12 to 15 October 2023.

The theme of the conference is “Innovative Biomaterials to Protect People's Health”, focusing on the frontiers of biomaterials science, technological innovation, achievement transformation, regulatory science, etc., to discuss and share the latest developments in the current field of biomaterials.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• IJMS;
• JFB;
• Bioengineering;
• Biomimetics;
• Marine Drugs;
• Polymers;
• Nanomaterials;
• Biomedicines;
• Micromachines;
• Pharmaceutics;
• Electrochem.

If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#B4) and speak with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit http://2023.csbm.org.cn/index.php/index/index/index.html.

One of the groundbreaking advancements in modern technology is the field of organ-on-a-chip in the realm of bioengineering. This innovative technique, by emulating the structure and functionality of human organs, presents unprecedented opportunities in areas such as drug screening, disease research, and personalized medicine. Organ-on-a-chip is a miniature biologically based microchip that enables biological experiments within a simulated microenvironment of human organs. Through the precise manipulation of cellular interactions, biomaterials, and fluids, organ-on-a-chip can mimic the physiological functions and pathological processes of human organs, providing a more reliable tool for disease research and drug development. In this context, we are pleased to feature some recently published papers centered around the topic of organ-on-a-chip in Bioengineering (ISSN: 2306-5354). These publications encompass various organs and disease domains. These articles showcase the potential of organ-on-a-chip in disease modeling, drug screening, and personalized medicine, while also exploring its value in biological research and medical applications.

1. “A Review of Biomaterials and Scaffold Fabrication for Organ-on-a-Chip (OOAC) Systems”
by Luana A. Osório, Elisabete Silva and Ruth E. Mackay
Bioengineering 2021, 8(8), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering8080113
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/8/8/113

2. “Versatile Vessel-on-a-Chip Platform for Studying Key Features of Blood Vascular Tumors”
by Marina Llenas, Roberto Paoli, Natalia Feiner-Gracia, Lorenzo Albertazzi, Josep Samitier and David Caballero
Bioengineering 2021, 8(6), 81; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering8060081
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/8/6/81

3. “Multi-Compartment Lymph-Node-on-a-Chip Enables Measurement of Immune Cell Motility in Response to Drugs”
by Nicholas Hallfors, Aya Shanti, Jiranuwat Sapudom, Jeremy Teo, Georg Petroianu, SungMun Lee, Lourdes Planelles and Cesare Stefanini
Bioengineering 2021, 8(2), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering8020019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/8/2/19

4. “Organ-On-A-Chip Database Revealed—Achieving the Human Avatar in Silicon”
by Lincao Jiang, Qiwei Li, Weicheng Liang, Xuan Du, Yi Yang, Zilin Zhang, Lili Xu, Jing Zhang, Jian Li, Zaozao Chen et al.
Bioengineering 2022, 9(11), 685; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110685
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/11/685

5. “Organ on Chip Technology to Model Cancer Growth and Metastasis”
by Giorgia Imparato, Francesco Urciuolo and Paolo Antonio Netti
Bioengineering 2022, 9(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9010028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/1/28

6. “Application of Micro-Engineered Kidney, Liver, and Respiratory System Models to Accelerate Preclinical Drug Testing and Development”
by Hanieh Gholizadeh, Shaokoon Cheng, Agisilaos Kourmatzis, Hanwen Xing, Daniela Traini, Paul M. Young and Hui Xin Ong
Bioengineering 2022, 9(4), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9040150
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/4/150

7. “A Biomimetic Electrospun Membrane Supports the Differentiation and Maturation of Kidney Epithelium from Human Stem Cells”
by Xingrui Mou, Jessica Shah, Rohan Bhattacharya, Titilola D. Kalejaiye, Bowen Sun, Po-Chun Hsu and Samira Musah
Bioengineering 2022, 9(5), 188; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9050188
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/5/188

8. “Recent Advances in Drug Delivery System Fabricated by Microfluidics for Disease Therapy”
by Fuhao Jia, Yanbing Gao and Hai Wang
Bioengineering 2022, 9(11), 625; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110625
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/11/625

9. “A Bioprinted Heart-on-a-Chip with Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Drug Evaluation”
by Alan Faulkner-Jones, Victor Zamora, Maria P. Hortigon-Vinagre, Wenxing Wang, Marcus Ardron, Godfrey L. Smith and Wenmiao Shu
Bioengineering 2022, 9(1), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9010032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/1/32

10. “Organs-on-Chips Platforms Are Everywhere: A Zoom on Biomedical Investigation”
by Mohamed Zommiti, Nathalie Connil, Ali Tahrioui, Anne Groboillot, Corinne Barbey, Yoan Konto-Ghiorghi, Olivier Lesouhaitier, Sylvie Chevalier and Marc G. J. Feuilloley
Bioengineering 2022, 9(11), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9110646
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/9/11/646

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2022 in the engineering category. The winners were selected by the journals’ Award Evaluation Committee.

We warmly congratulate the following young investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Actuators:

• Yi Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China

Batteries:

• Lin Ma, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Biosensors:

• Stefano Cinti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Buildings:

• Umberto Berardi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
• Benedetto Nastasi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

JMSE:

• Do Kyun Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Machines:

• Fernando Bento, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Goshtasp Cheraghian, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• Roman Mykhailyshyn, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Micromachines:

• Pingan Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, China

Processes:

• Viknesh Andiappan, the Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia

Sensors:

• Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, USA

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2022 Travel Awards in the engineering category for their outstanding presentations.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of the 2022 Travel Awards and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Biosensors:

• Dmitry Kireev, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Buildings:

• Danilo D’Angela, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

JMMP:

• Jungsub Kim, Texas A&M University, USA

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when generously dedicating their time to reviewing papers, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2022 in the engineering category for their outstanding contributions by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievements. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Actuators:

• Chongjing Cao, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), China

Applied Sciences:

• Roman Mykhailyshyn, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Chiranjibi Sitaula, Monash University, Australia
• Davide Forcellini, ¹University of Auckland, New Zealand; ²University of San Marino, San Marino
• Giuseppe Ciaburro, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
• Yang Song, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Xiaoming Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Biosensors:

• Carlos Torres-Torres, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Buildings:

• Paolo Blecich, University of Rijeka, Croatia
• Łukasz Ścislo, Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Fluids:

• Giorgio Sonnino, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
• Luiz Antonio Alcântara Pereira, Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), Brazil

JMSE:

• Cagatay Iris, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• Denis Istrati, University of Nevada, USA
• Mai The Vu, Sejong University, Korea
• Mina Tadros, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Machines:

• Chao Fu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
• Eduardo Suárez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
• Jordi-Roger Riba, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Processes:

• Catalin Ianasi, Institute of Chemistry “Coriolan Dragulescu”, Romania
• Daniel Ferrández, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
• Kamil Krzysztof Roman, Institute of Technology and Life Sciences in Warsaw, Poland
• Marcin Dębowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• Mariusz Szymanek, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland

Sensors:

• Agustin L. Herrera-May, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
• Chiachung Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
• Jae-Myung Ryu, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea
• Sebastian Głowiński, Koszalin Technical University, Poland
• Wei Zhou, University of Waterloo, Canada

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

MDPI’s Best PhD Thesis Awards are presented to recognize the young scholars who are judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in their field of research and to encourage them to continue their excellent work and further contributions to their field.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Awards and wish them success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

JMSE:

• “Mathematical Modelling of Wave-Induced Motions and Loads on Moored Offshore Structures”
  by Changqing Jiang, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Machines:

• “Experimental Characterization of Frictional Hysteresis for Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Jointed Structures”
  by Alfredo Fantetti, Imperial College London, UK

Processes:

• “Sustainable Cultivation of Microalgae Biomass for Bioenergy Production”
  by Angela Paul Peter, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia

Sensors:

• “Studying Protein Function with Fluorescent Nanoantennas”
  by Scott G. Harroun, Université de Montréal, Canada

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here.

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners announced for the year 2022 in the engineering category, who were selected from extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Actuators:

• “Two-Way and Multiple-Way Shape Memory Polymers for Soft Robotics: An Overview”
  by Giulia Scalet
  Actuators 2020, 9(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9010010

• “Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients”
  by Leonardo Acho, Alessandro N. Vargas and Gisela Pujol-Vázquez
  Actuators 2020, 9(3), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9030084

• “Styrenic-Rubber Dielectric Elastomer Actuator with Inherent Stiffness Compensation”
  by Giacomo Moretti, Luca Sarina, Lorenzo Agostini, Rocco Vertechy, Giovanni Berselli and Marco Fontana
  Actuators 2020, 9(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/act9020044

Applied Sciences:

• “Chromium(III) Removal from Wastewater by Chitosan Flakes”
  by Loris Pietrelli, Iolanda Francolini, Antonella Piozzi, Maria Sighicelli, Ilaria Silvestro and Marco Vocciante
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(6), 1925; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10061925

• “Unravelling the Environmental Application of Biochar as Low-Cost Biosorbent: A Review”
  by Antía Fdez-Sanromán, Marta Pazos, Emilio Rosales and María Angeles Sanromán
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(21), 7810; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10217810

• “Observation of Potential Contaminants in Processed Biomass Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy”
  by Jingshun Zhuang, Mi Li, Yunqiao Pu, Arthur Jonas Ragauskas and Chang Geun Yoo
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(12), 4345; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10124345

• “Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis 2020: Where We Stand”
  by Angelo Iacobino, Lanfranco Fattorini and Federico Giannoni
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(6), 2153; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10062153

• “Real-Time Remote Maintenance Support Based on Augmented Reality (AR)”
  by Dimitris Mourtzis, Vasileios Siatras and John Angelopoulos
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(5), 1855; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10051855

• “Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Soft Robotics Applications and Challenges”
  by Jung-Hwan Youn, Seung Mo Jeong, Geonwoo Hwang, Hyunwoo Kim, Kyujin Hyeon, Jihwan Park and Ki-Uk Kyung
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(2), 640; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10020640

• “Low-Cost Biochar Adsorbents for Water Purification Including Microplastics Removal”
  by Virpi Siipola, Stephan Pflugmacher, Henrik Romar, Laura Wendling and Pertti Koukkari
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(3), 788; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10030788

• “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AISI 316L Produced by Directed Energy Deposition-Based Additive Manufacturing: A Review”
  by Abdollah Saboori, Alberta Aversa, Giulio Marchese, Sara Biamino, Mariangela Lombardi and Paolo Fino
  Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(9), 3310; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093310

Buildings:

• “Humans-as-a-Sensor for Buildings—Intensive Longitudinal Indoor Comfort Models”
  by Prageeth Jayathissa, Matias Quintana, Mahmoud Abdelrahman and Clayton Miller
  Buildings 2020, 10(10), 174; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10100174

• “Circular Building Design: An Analysis of Barriers and Drivers for a Circular Building Sector”
  by Jouri Kanters
  Buildings 2020, 10(4), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10040077

• “Building Information Modelling (BIM) to Enhance Occupational Safety in Construction Activities: Research Trends Emerging from One Decade of Studies”
  by Mario Fargnoli and Mara Lombardi
  Buildings 2020, 10(6), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10060098

• “A SWOT Analysis of the Use of BIM Technology in the Polish Construction Industry”
  by Krzysztof Zima, Edyta Plebankiewicz and Damian Wieczorek
  Buildings 2020, 10(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10010016

• “Durability and Climate Change—Implications for Service Life Prediction and the Maintainability of Buildings”
  by Michael A. Lacasse, Abhishek Gaur and Travis V. Moore
  Buildings 2020, 10(3), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10030053

• “Worker 4.0: The Future of Sensored Construction Sites”
  by Diego Calvetti, Pedro Mêda, Miguel Chichorro Gonçalves and Hipólito Sousa
  Buildings 2020, 10(10), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10100169

Fluids:

• “A Review of Topology Optimisation for Fluid-Based Problems”
  by Joe Alexandersen and Casper Schousboe Andreasen
  Fluids 2020, 5(1), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids5010029

• “On the Deterministic Prediction of Water Waves”
  by Marco Klein, Matthias Dudek, Günther F. Clauss, Sören Ehlers, Jasper Behrendt, Norbert Hoffman and Miguel Onorato
  Fluids 2020, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids5010009

• “On the Effect of Block Roughness in Ogee Spillways with Flip Buckets”
  by Rasoul Daneshfaraz, Amir Ghaderi, Aliakbar Akhtari, Silvia Di Francesco
  Fluids 2020, 5(4), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids5040182

JMSE:

• “Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review”
  by Felice Rubino, Antonio Nisticò, Fausto Tucci and Pierpaolo Carlone
  J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8010026

• “Numerical Simulation of Large Wave Heights from Super Typhoon Nepartak (2016) in the Eastern Waters of Taiwan”
  by Shih-Chun Hsiao, Hongey Chen, Han-Lun Wu, Wei-Bo Chen, Chih-Hsin Chang, Wen-Dar Guo, Yung-Ming Chen and Lee-Yaw Lin
  J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(3), 217; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8030217

• “Development of Deterministic Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)”
  by Timothy Sands
  J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(8), 578; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8080578

Lubricants:

• “Effective Application of Solid Lubricants in Spacecraft Mechanisms”
  by Jeffrey R. Lince
  Lubricants 2020, 8(7), 74; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8070074

• “High-Rate Laser Surface Texturing for Advanced Tribological Functionality”
  by Jörg Schille, Lutz Schneider, Stefan Mauersberger, Sylvia Szokup, Sören Höhn, Johannes Pötschke, Friedemann Reiß, Erhard Leidich and Udo Löschner
  Lubricants 2020, 8(3), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8030033

Micromachines:

• “Size Sorting of Exosomes by Tuning the Thicknesses of the Electric Double Layers on a Micro-Nanofluidic Device”
  by Satoko Fujiwara, Kyojiro Morikawa, Tatsuro Endo, Hideaki Hisamoto and Kenji Sueyoshi
  Micromachines 2020, 11(5), 458; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11050458

• “Additive Manufacturing of Sub-Micron to Sub-mm Metal Structures with Hollow AFM Cantilevers”
  by Giorgio Ercolano, Cathelijn van Nisselroy, Thibaut Merle, János Vörös, Dmitry Momotenko, Wabe W. Koelmans and Tomaso Zambelli
  Micromachines 2020, 11(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11010006

• “A Robotic Biopsy Endoscope with Magnetic 5-DOF Locomotion and a Retractable Biopsy Punch”
  by Manh Cuong Hoang, Viet Ha Le, Kim Tien Nguyen, Van Du Nguyen, Jayoung Kim, Eunpyo Choi, Seungmin Bang, Byungjeon Kang, Jong-Oh Park and Chang-Sei Kim
  Micromachines 2020, 11(1), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11010098

• “Development of Fully Flexible Tactile Pressure Sensor with Bilayer Interlaced Bumps for Robotic Grasping Applications”
  by Lingfeng Zhu, Yancheng Wang, Deqing Mei and Chengpeng Jiang
  Micromachines 2020, 11(8), 770; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11080770

• “A mm-Sized Free-Floating Wireless Implantable Opto-Electro Stimulation Device”
  by Yaoyao Jia, Yan Gong, Arthur Weber, Wen Li and Maysam Ghovanloo
  Micromachines 2020, 11(6), 621; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11060621

Processes:

• “Advanced Bioethanol Production: From Novel Raw Materials to Integrated Biorefineries”
  by Aleta Duque, Cristina Álvarez, Pablo Doménech, Paloma Manzanares and Antonio D. Moreno
  Processes 2021, 9(2), 206; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9020206

• “An Overview on Fault Diagnosis, Prognosis and Resilient Control for Wind Turbine Systems”
  by Zhiwei Gao and Xiaoxu Liu
  Processes 2021, 9(2), 300; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9020300

• “Role of Microalgae in the Recovery of Nutrients from Pig Manure”
  by Ana Sánchez-Zurano, Martina Ciardi, Tomás Lafarga, José María Fernández-Sevilla, Ruperto Bermejo and Emilio Molina-Grima
  Processes 2021, 9(2), 203; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9020203

• “Applying Lean Six Sigma Methodology to a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility: A Case Study”
  by Brian Byrne, Olivia McDermott and John Noonan
  Processes 2021, 9(3), 550; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9030550

Sensors:

• “YOLO-Tomato: A Robust Algorithm for Tomato Detection Based on YOLOv3”
  by Guoxu Liu, Joseph Christian Nouaze, Philippe Lyonel Touko Mbouembe and Jae Ho Kim
  Sensors 2020, 20(7), 2145; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20072145

• “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions: A Review”
  by Corina Covaci and Aurel Gontean
  Sensors 2020, 20(12), 3512; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20123512

• “Applications of Graphene Quantum Dots in Biomedical Sensors”
  by Bhargav D. Mansuriya and Zeynep Altintas
  Sensors 2020, 20(4), 1072; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20041072

WEVJ:

• “Beyond the State of the Art of Electric Vehicles: A Fact-Based Paper of the Current and Prospective Electric Vehicle Technologies”
  by Joeri Van Mierlo, Maitane Berecibar, Mohamed El Baghdadi, Cedric De Cauwer, Maarten Messagie, Thierry Coosemans, Valéry Ann Jacobs and Omar Hegazy
  World Electr. Veh. J. 2021, 12(1), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj12010020

• “An Overview of Parameter and Cost for Battery Electric Vehicles”
  by Adrian König, Lorenzo Nicoletti, Daniel Schröder, Sebastian Wolff, Adam Waclaw and Markus Lienkamp
  World Electr. Veh. J. 2021, 12(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj12010021

About MDPI Awards:

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help raise the influence of talented individuals who have been credited with outstanding achievements and are making a significant contribution to the advancement of their fields.

To explore more MDPI awards, please click here. 

Conference: 37th International Specialised Symposium on Yeasts—ISSY37
Date: 27 November–1 December 2023
Location: Adelaide, Australia

MDPI will be attending ISSY37 as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

The theme for ISSY37 is “Yeast Biotech 2.0: New Yeast, Knowledge and Applications”. The meeting will bring together leading researchers, biotech executives, suppliers, government and early career researchers interested in fundamental and applied investigations of yeast. The planned themes will likely include:

• Biodiversity and new yeast;
• Yeast-derived food and beverages;
• Yeast cell factories;
• Yeast in plant-based foods and meat/dairy alternatives;
• Synthetic genomes, organelles and communities;
• Designer yeast;
• Bioenergy;
• Biomedicine;
• Biosafety.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Fermentation (leading journal);
• JoF;
• Microorganisms;
• Beverages;
• Bioengineering;
• Applied Microbiology;
• CIMB;
• BioTech.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://issy2023.com.au/.

Conference: The 7th International Conference of Bionic Engineering—ICBE2023
Date: 12–15 October 2023
Location: Wuhan, China

MDPI will be attending ICBE2023 as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us. 

Biomimetic science and engineering is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field that closely relates to biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, medicine and other disciplines. The 7th International Conference of Bionic Engineering and the International Youth Conference of Bionic Science and Engineering 2023 (ICBE and IYCBSE 2023) will not only offer a unique platform to exchange information and ideas, and to initiate collaborations between international bionic scholars, but will also create an opportunity to promote the transformation of bionic technologies and to address future challenges for biomimetic science and engineering.

Organized by Wuhan University, Hubei University and Jilin University, the ICBE and IYCBSE 2023 will be conducted in an online/offline (Wuhan, China) hybrid mode.

The theme of ICBE and IYCBSE 2023 is “human, nature, harmony”, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Biological systems and biodiversity;
• Bioinspired functional structures and surfaces;
• Biomaterials and bioinspired materials;
• Bionic machinery;
• Biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering;
• Biosensors and signal processing;
• Robotics, motion systems and artificial intelligence;
• Nature-inspired energy system;
• Biofabrication and bioinspired manufacturing;
• Sustainable and environmentally friendly novel technologies;
• Industrial applications of bionics;
• Other fields related to bionics. 

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Biomimetics;
• Inventions;
• Bioengineering;
• JFB;
• Micromachines.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.icbe2022.net/En/Default.