Crystals Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The Evaluation Committee Members choose 2 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:
– 1 research article and 1 review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year.
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Crytals 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.
The cyclic plastic deformation of polycrystals leads to the inhomogeneous distribution of the cyclic plastic strain. The cyclic plastic strain is concentrated in thin bands, called persistent slip bands (PSBs). The dislocation structure of these band...
Half-Heusler alloys are among the most promising thermoelectric materials. In the present review, thermoelectric properties (at 300 K and 800 K) of more than 1100 compositions from more than 220 publications between 1998 and 2023 were collected and e...
Alessandra Toncelli
Hongbin Bei
Leonid Kustov
Zongyou Yin
Jaime Gómez Morales
Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi
Benilde Costa
Heinz-Günter Brokmeier
