Best Paper Award

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20 days
Time to First Decision

Clean Technologies Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose two articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– One research article and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 300, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

Number of Winners: 2

Clean Technologies Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Clean Technologies will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

Past Winners

Winner

Article
31 Citations
8,207 Views
20 Pages
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Functional and Environmental Performances of Novel Electrolytic Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells: A Lab-Scale Case Study
Matteo Di Virgilio,
Andrea Basso Peressut,
Valeria Arosio,
Alessandro Arrigoni,
Saverio Latorrata and
Giovanni Dotelli
Clean Technol.2023, 5(1), 74-93;https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol5010005
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9 January 2023
Despite being the most employed polymer electrolyte for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), Nafion® has several limitations: expensiveness, poor performance when exposed to temperatures higher than 80 °C, and its potential as a sour...
Full Article
Review
39 Citations
13,564 Views
29 Pages
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Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Saline Aquifers: Subsurface Policies, Development Plans, Well Control Strategies and Optimization Approaches—A Review
Ismail Ismail and
Vassilis Gaganis
Clean Technol.2023, 5(2), 609-637;https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol5020031
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15 May 2023
To mitigate dangerous climate change effects, the 195 countries that signed the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to “keep the increase in average global surface temperature below 2 °C and limit the increase to 1.5 °C” by reducing carbo...
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Award Committee

Patricia Luis
Patricia Luis
Chairman
UCLouvain
Dmitry Murzin
Dmitry Murzin
Åbo Akademi University
Nicolas Kalogerakis
Nicolas Kalogerakis
Technical University of Crete
Diganta Bhusan Das
Diganta Bhusan Das
Chemical Engineering Department
Sabino De Gisi
Sabino De Gisi
Department of Industrial Engineering, Section of Chemical Engineering, University of Salerno