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On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, we are establishing the Nanomaterials Outstanding Reviewer Award to acknowledge all those who have generously dedicated their time and effort to reviewing manuscripts submitted to Nanomaterials (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials). The award is dedicated to those who have exhibited exceptional dedication, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts.
What are the eligibility requirements for the Nanomaterials 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award?
–– All reviewers of Nanomaterials in 2020 will automatically be considered.
What are the evaluation standards?
–– The number of manuscript reviews, timeliness, and quality of their reviews will be considered.
What will the winners receive?
There will be three awardees, and the winners will receive:
–– An official certificate;
–– A waiver to enable to publish a paper free of charge in 2021.
–– A cash award of 500 CHF.
When will the winners be announced?
–– The winners will be announced on the journal website at the beginning of 2021.
How do you ensure you have a chance to win in the future?
–– If you are an expert in nanomaterials or a related field, and have not yet reviewed papers for Nanomaterials but would like to, you can register as a reviewer at https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.
Best Paper Awards 2020
We are pleased to announce the Nanomaterials 2020 Best Paper Awards, which aim to acknowledge the support of our authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. We hope this award will encourage the publishing of even more high-quality papers in the journal.
Papers published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 are eligible to compete for the 2020 Best Paper Awards. Three research articles and three review articles will receive these awards following a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee.
Selection Guidelines:
– Editors seek to recognize innovative or creative papers with transparent, reproducible, rigorous, and relevant science. The quality and clarity of the presentation will be considered, as will the potential impact of the paper in its field. The awards are open to all age groups and career levels.
Prizes:
– Three research articles and three review articles will be selected. Each winner will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Nanomaterials in 2021. In addition, cash awards of 500, 300, and 200 CHF are granted to the first, second, and third place winners of the research articles.
The winners will be announced on the journal website in November 2020.
Closed Awards
Travel Award 2020
Dear Colleagues,
As Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials Travel Awards for 2020:
Travel Awards were granted to Manish Kumar, Ph.D. student in Engineering Physics, working under the direction of Dr. Luiz Pereira at the Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Dr. Kenry, postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Moritz Kircher, Department of Imaging, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, USA.
Mr. Kumar works on the simulation, fabrication, and characterization of highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. He was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher working on the project “Excilight” Donor-Acceptor Light Emitting Exciplexes as Materials for Easy-to-Tailor Ultra-efficient OLED Lighting. He will present his work at the 2020 E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland on September 14-17, 2020.
Dr. Kenry’s research focuses on nano-bio interface engineering for precision nanomedicine. He is particularly interested in understanding and manipulating the interfacial interactions between biological barriers and nanomaterials to regulate their site-specific target localization for enhanced fluorescence, photoacoustic, and Raman imaging and photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy of various diseases. He will present his work at the 94th American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloid & Surface Science Symposium in Houston, USA on June 7-10, 2020.
Congratulations to both winners of the 2020 Nanomaterials Travel Awards!
Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief
Nanomaterials Editorial Office
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On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, we are establishing the Nanomaterials Outstanding Reviewer Award to acknowledge all those who have generously dedicated their time and effort to reviewing manuscripts submitted to Nanomaterials (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials). The award is dedicated to those who have exhibited exceptional dedication,
professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts.
What are the eligibility requirements for the “Nanomaterials 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award”?
–– All reviewers of Nanomaterials in 2019 will automatically be considered.
What are the evaluation standards?
–– The number of manuscript reviews, timeliness, and quality of their reviews will be considered.
What will the winners receive?
There will be three awardees, and the winners will receive:
–– An official certificate;
–– A waiver to enable to publish a paper free of charge in 2020.
–– A cash award of 500 CHF.
When will the winners be announced?
–– The winners will be announced on the journal website at the beginning of 2020.
How do you ensure you have a chance to win in the future?
–– If you are an expert in nanomaterials or a related field, and have not yet reviewed papers for Nanomaterials but would like to, you can register as a reviewer at https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.
The Nanomaterials Editorial Office would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process are maintained. The following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, to receive “Nanomaterials 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018. For their outstanding review work, each will receive 500 CHF and a certificate:
Giuseppe Lazzara
University of Palermo, Italy
Katsuhiko Ariga
National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba, Japan
Gyorgy Szekely
University of Manchester, UK
Giuseppe Cavallaro
University of Palermo, Italy
Noel Rodriguez
University of Granada, Spain
Young Investigator Award 2018
The evaluation committee, consisting of several members of the Editorial Board of the Nanomaterials, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Nanomaterials Young Investigator Awards. Since the nominees were very impressive, the journal has decided to give three awards: the first-place award of 2000 CHF as originally announced, a second-place award of 800 CHF, and a third-place award to publish an accepted article in Nanomaterials free of charge within the next year. The selection process involved consideration of all the submitted materials, with special emphasis on the number and quality of the publications, their citations, and the significance and innovation of the research. We are therefore pleased to announce that the first-place winner is Dr. Deep M. Jariwala, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. The second-place winner is Dr. Jiajia Zhou of the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices (IBMD), Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The third-place winner is Dr. Edoardo Albisetti of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA and the Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Dr. Jariwala’s impressive work combines novel nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, into heterostructures and electronic and optoelectronic devices. His work encompasses synthesis of nanomaterials, characterization of their electronic and optical properties, and then fabrication of them into devices, such as diodes, FETs, and photodetectors.
Dr. Zhou discovered that certain heat-favorable phonons, which exist at the surface of nanoparticles, can combat thermal quenching. Her patented Thermal DotTM technology can intelligently harvest heat to obtain emitted visible light from the nanoparticles, with enhanced intensity by as much as a factor of 2000. This technology has numerous applications, from photovoltaic solar cells to nanoscale temperature sensors.
Dr. Albisetti conceived and demonstrated thermally assisted magnetic scanning probe lithography (tam-SPL) for nanopatterning reconfigurable magnetic nanostructures in ferromagnetic thin films. This patented technique has applications in the design of novel nanomaterials and devices for nanomagnetism, spintronics, and magnonics. The related technique of thermochemical scanning probe lithography (tc-SPL) even allows the definition of nanoscale patterns with precisely controlled protein concentration.
Congratulations to all three of these extraordinary 2018 Nanomaterials Young Investigators!
--- Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials, and the Evaluation Committee: Prof. Dr. Yuan Chen, Dr. habil. Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Prof. Dr. Jordi Sort, and Dr. Vijay Kumar Thakur.
The Nanomaterials Editorial Office would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process are maintained.
The following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, to receive “Nanomaterials 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017. For their outstanding review work, each will receive 500 CHF, a certificate and a 10% discount for one paper published in Nanomaterials:
Eiji Yuba
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Grégory Barbillon
EPF-Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France
Travel Awards 2016
Dear Colleagues,
As Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials Travel Awards for 2016:
Travel Awards were granted to Steven Swasey, a PhD candidate in Dr. Beth Gwinn’s lab at The University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and to Dr. Albert Serrà i Ramos, a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Elisa Vallés’s group at Barcelona University, Spain.
Steven Swasey studies DNA nanotechnology. His research is focuses on understanding the structural impact and rules of Ag+-mediated base pairing in mixed and homobase DNA and the formation and structure of DNA-stabilized silver clusters (AgN-DNA), with particular focus on involvement of Ag+. He will give an oral presentation on “Clusters with a Twist: DNA-Stabilized Fluorescent Silver Clusters” at the upcoming Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Albert Serrà i Ramos has been working in the areas of nanomaterials and electrochemistry. His research focuses mainly on the generalization of novel electrochemical shape-controlled approaches for the development or improvement of electrochemical micro- and nano-fabrication strategies. He will present his work in a communication on the electrochemical synthesis of mesoporous nanorods for electrocatalytic applications at the 67th Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
It is my great pleasure to congratulate both winners to the very well deserved Nanomaterials Travel Awards.
Thomas Nann
Editor-in-Chief
