Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Fibers, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Fibers Travel Award 2020.

The Postdoc award was granted to Mustafa Raheem, a postdoctoral research fellow at Structural Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA;

The Ph.D. student award was granted to Manish Sharma, a Ph.D. student at École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It was a difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments. We are proud to support these two young scientists and wish further success in their career.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Martin J. D. Clift

Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439; CODEN: FIBECU) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. For further details, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fibers.

We are inviting applications for a Travel Award for postdoctoral students and PhD students to attend a conference in 2018. The award will consist of 800 CHF (Swiss Francs) for the winner.
The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of Fibers, Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Bondy.

Candidates’ Requirements:
1. Postdoctoral fellows (received within the last five years) or PhD students performing research in the fibers field.
2. The candidate plans to attend an international conference in 2018 (oral presentation of poster).
3. Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

• Outline of current and future work, including an explanation of how the applicant will benefit from presenting their work at the conference (500 words).
• A Curriculum Vitae, including a complete list of publications.
• An abstract for the talk or poster they intend to present at the conference (give the conference name and its website). Also note any funding from grants or travel budget.
• A letter of recommendation from the supervisor or PI, with a statement indicating the post-docs eligibility.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 15 December 2017 or any questions you may have. The winner will be announced at the beginning of 2018.

Dear Colleagues, dear Researchers,

For the Fibers Travel Award 2018, we received a total of 47 applications from all over the world, of a very high quality. Together with a scientific evaluation committee of experts, we selected the following exceptional applicant as the winner of the Fibers Travel Award 2018:

Dr. Darshil Upendra Shah, a postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX, UK.
The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs toward Dr. Shah attending an academic conference of his choice in 2018.

I would like to congratulate Dr. Shah on behalf of the evaluation committee and the Fibers editorial team and thank all candidates for their most interesting applications!

 

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Bondy

Fibers established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Fibers based on the number of citations in 2017–2018 from the website with all research articles published in 2017 eligible for consideration.

The selection committee is chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Martin J. D. Clift, and supported by Prof. Dr. Alain Dufresne and Dr. Francesco Bencardino. They examined each paper and have expressed their preferences in the ranking of the “Fibers Best Paper Award” 2017.

Best Paper Award:

Molecular Dynamics Modeling of the Effect of Axial and Transverse Compression on the Residual Tensile Properties of Ballistic Fiber

Sanjib C. Chowdhury; Subramani Sockalingam and John W. Gillespie.

Fibers 2017, 5(1), 7; doi:10.3390/fib5010007

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6439/5/1/7

This paper is valuable contribution to Fibers. On behalf of the Fibers Best Paper Award Committee and the Editorial Board of Fibers, I congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing to publish their best work in Fibers. In recognition of their accomplishments, Dr. Sanjib C. Chowdhury will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in Open Access format in Fibers, after the standard peer-review procedure.

Fibers established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Fibers based on the number of citations in 2016–2018 from the website with all research articles published in 2016 eligible for consideration.

The selection committee is chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Martin J. D. Clift, and supported by Prof. Dr. Alain Dufresne and Dr. Francesco Bencardino. They examined each paper and have expressed their preferences in the ranking of the “Fibers Best Paper Award” 2016.

Best Paper Award:

Elucidating the Potential Biological Impact of Cellulose Nanocrystals

Sandra Camarero-Espinosa, Carola Endes, Silvana Mueller, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Christoph Weder, Martin James David Clift and E. Johan Foster.

Fibers 2016, 4(3), 21; doi:10.3390/fib4030021

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6439/4/3/21

This paper is valuable contribution to Fibers. On behalf of the Fibers Best Paper Award Committee and the Editorial Board of Fibers, I congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing to publish their best work in Fibers. In recognition of their accomplishments, Dr. E. Johan Foster will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in Open Access format in Fibers, after the standard peer-review procedure.