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We are pleased to announce that we have selected the highly cited review papers published in 2021, which you are welcome to read.

1. “Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens”
by Spyros Argyropoulos, Oleg Brandt and Ulrich Haisch
Symmetry 2021, 13(12), 2406; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122406
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/12/2406

2. “Review of Shape Phase Transition Studies for Bose-Fermi Systems: The Effect of the Odd-Particle on the Bosonic Core”
by M. Böyükata, C. E. Alonsom, J. M. Arias, L. Fortunato and A. Vitturi
Symmetry 2021, 13(2), 215; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13020215
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/2/215

3. “Strong-Interaction Matter under Extreme Conditions from Chiral Quark Models with Nonlocal Separable Interactions”
by Daniel Gómez Dumm, Juan Pablo Carlomagno and Norberto N. Scoccola
Symmetry 2021, 13(1), 121; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010121
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/121

4. “Digital Twins-Based Smart Design and Control of Ultra-Precision Machining: A Review”
by Lei Wu, Jiewu Leng and Bingfeng Ju
Symmetry 2021, 13(9), 1717; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13091717
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/9/1717

5. “Interplay between Spacetime Curvature, Speed of Light and Quantum Deformations of Relativistic Symmetries”
by Angel Ballesteros, Giulia Gubitosi and Flavio Mercati
Symmetry 2021, 13(11), 2099; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13112099
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/11/2099

6. “Atomic Structure Calculations of Helium with Correlated Exponential Functions”
by Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Vojtěch Patkóš and Krzysztof Pachucki
Symmetry 2021, 13(7), 1246; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13071246
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/7/1246

7. “Evolution of Heavy Ion Beam Probing from the Origins to Study of Symmetric Structures in Fusion Plasmas”
by Alexander Melnikov
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1367; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081367
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/8/1367

8. “Entropy-Like Properties and Lq-Norms of Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials: Degree Asymptotics”
by Jesús S. Dehesa
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1416; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081416
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/8/1416

9. “Acyl(imidoyl)ketenes: Reactive Bidentate Oxa/Aza-Dienes for Organic Synthesis”
by Ekaterina A. Lystsova, Ekaterina E. Khramtsova and Andrey N. Maslivets
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1509; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081509
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/8/1509

10. “A Unified Mathematical Formalism for First to Third Order Dielectric Response of Matter: Application to Surface-Specific Two-Colour Vibrational Optical Spectroscopy”
by Christophe Humbert and Thomas Noblet
Symmetry 2021, 13(1), 153; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010153
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/153

11. “Atypical Brain Asymmetry in Human Situs Inversus: Gut Feeling or Real Evidence?”
by Guy Vingerhoets, Robin Gerrits and Helena Verhelst
Symmetry 2021, 13(4), 695; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13040695
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/4/695

12. “Actual Symmetry of Symmetric Molecular Adducts in the Gas Phase, Solution and in the Solid State?”
by Ilya G. Shenderovich
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 756; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050756
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/5/756

13. “Model Membrane Systems Used to Study Plasma Membrane Lipid Asymmetry?”
by Haden L. Scott, Kristen B. Kennison, Thais A. Enoki, Milka Doktorova, Jacob J. Kinnun, Frederick A. Heberle and John Katsaras
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1356; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081356
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/8/1356

14. “Jacobi Multipliers in Integrability and the Inverse Problem of Mechanics?”
by José F. Cariñena and José Fernández-Núñez
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1413; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081413
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/8/1413

15. “Progress on the Stereoselective Synthesis of Chiral Molecules Based on Metal-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols with Lipases?”
by Raffaella Ferraccioli
Symmetry 2021, 13(9), 1744; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13091744
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/9/1744

16. “Lattice Constraints on the QCD Chiral Phase Transition at Finite Temperature and Baryon Density”
by Owe Philipsen
Symmetry 2021, 13(11), 2079; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13112079
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/11/2079

17. “Symmetry Transformations in Metazoan Evolution and Development”
by Valeria V. Isaeva and Nickolay V. Kasyanov
Symmetry 2021, 13(2), 2915; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13020160
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/2/160

18. “Recent Developments of the Lauricella String Scattering Amplitudes and Their Exact SL(K + 3,C) Symmetry”
by Sheng-Hong Lai, Jen-Chi Lee and Yi Yang
Symmetry 2021, 13(3), 454; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13030454
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/3/454

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Date: 25–27 February 2023
Place: Guangzhou, China

MDPI will be attending the 11th National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (CCBSB2023) as the exhibitor. The National Academic Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology has been successfully held for ten sessions since its first session in 1998. It is a national event with the highest academic level and the greatest influence in the field of bioinformatics research in China. The theme of the conference is "The Latest Frontier Research of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Their Applications", and the topics cover translational informatics and data sharing security, biomedical data mining and computing, genome informatics, artificial intelligence and life sciences, group bioinformatics and integrated biology, non-coding RNA and RNA informatics, network biology, major disease omics informatics, biological macromolecular structure prediction and simulation, bioinformatics algorithm research, biological data resources, bioinformatics and drugs discovery, computational synthetic biology, agricultural and forestry informatics and other bioinformatics, and other frontier directions.

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We are pleased to announce that we have selected the highly cited articles published in 2021 and 2022, which you are welcome to read.

1. “On Sombor Index”
by Kinkar Chandra Das, Ahmet Sinan Çevik, Ismail Naci Cangul and Yilun Shang
Symmetry 2021, 13(1), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010140
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/140  

2. “On the Hybrid Fractional Differential Equations with Fractional Proportional Derivatives of a Function with Respect to a Certain Function”
by Mohamed I. Abbasa and Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Symmetry 2021, 13(2), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13020264
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/2/264

3. “Determination of Objective Weights Using a New Method Based on the Removal Effects of Criteria (MEREC)”
by Mehdi Keshavarz-Ghorabaee, Maghsoud Amiri, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis and Jurgita Antucheviciene
Symmetry 2021, 13(4), 525; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13040525
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/4/525

4. “Numerical Investigation of Fractional-Order Swift–Hohenberg Equations via a Novel Transform”
by Kamsing Nonlaopon, Abdullah M. Alsharif, Ahmed M. Zidan, Adnan Khan, Yasser S. Hamed and Rasool Shah
Symmetry 2021, 13(7), 1263; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13071263
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/7/1263

5. “Different Faces of Generalized Holographic Dark Energy”
by Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov and Tanmoy Paul
Symmetry 2021, 13(6), 928; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13060928
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/6/928

6. “Study of Cascading Failure in Multisubnet Composite Complex Networks”
by Gengxin Sun, Chih-Cheng Chen and Sheng Bin
Symmetry 2021, 13(3), 523; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13030523
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/3/523

7. “On the Arcsecant Hyperbolic Normal Distribution. Properties, Quantile Regression Modeling and Applications”
by Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz, Christophe Chesneau and Zehra Sedef Korkmaz
Symmetry 2021, 13(1), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010117
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/117

8.“New Hermite–Hadamard Inequalities in Fuzzy-Interval Fractional Calculus and Related Inequalities”
by Muhammad Bilal Khan, Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed, Muhammad Aslam Noor and Y. S. Hamed
Symmetry 2021, 13(4), 673; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13040673
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/4/673

9. “Fuzzy Differential Subordinations Based upon the Mittag-Leffler Type Borel Distribution”
by Hari Mohan Srivastava and Sheza M. El-Deeb
Symmetry 2021, 13(6), 1023; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13061023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/6/1023

10. “Applications of the q-Srivastava-Attiya Operator Involving a Certain Family of Bi-Univalent Functions Associated with the Horadam Polynomials”
by Hari Mohan Srivastava, Abbas Kareem Wanas and Rekha Srivastava
Symmetry 2021, 13(7), 1230; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13071230
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/7/1230

11. “General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Arbitrary Order”
by Yuri Luchko
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 755; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050755
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/5/755

12. “Condensing Functions and Approximate Endpoint Criterion for the Existence Analysis of Quantum Integro-Difference FBVPs”
by Shahram Rezapour, Atika Imran, Azhar Hussain, Francisco Martínez, Sina Etemad and Mohammed K. A. Kaabar
Symmetry 2021, 13(3), 469; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13030469
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/3/469

13. “A New Analysis of Fractional-Order Equal-Width Equations via Novel Techniques”
by Muhammad Naeem, Ahmed M. Zidan, Kamsing Nonlaopon, Muhammad I. Syam, Zeyad Al-Zhour and Rasool Shah
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 886; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050886
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/5/886

14. “Applications of Certain Conic Domains to a Subclass of q-Starlike Functions Associated with the Janowski Functions”
by Bilal Khan, Hari Mohan Srivastava, Nazar Khan, Maslina Darus, Qazi Zahoor Ahmad and Muhammad Tahir
Symmetry 2021, 13(4), 574; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13040574
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/4/574

15. “Neutral Delay Differential Equations: Oscillation Conditions for the Solutions”
by Omar Bazighifan, Hammad Alotaibi and Abd Allaah A. Mousa
Symmetry 2021, 13(1), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13010101
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/101

16. “Three Symmetrical Systems of Coupled Sylvester-like Quaternion Matrix Equations”
by Mahmoud Saad Mehany and Qing-Wen Wang
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 550; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030550
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/550

17. “A Novel Numerical Approach in Solving Fractional Neutral Pantograph Equations via the ARA Integral Transform”
by Aliaa Burqan, Rania Saadeh and Ahmad Qazza
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010050
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/50

18. “Fractional View Analysis of Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equations with Non-Singular Kernel Operators”
by Azzh Saad Alshehry, Muhammad Imran, Adnan Khan, Rasool Shah
Symmetry 2021, 13(4), 525; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13040525
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/4/525

19. “Novel Oscillation Theorems and Symmetric Properties of Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations of Fourth-Order with a Middle Term”
by Barakah Almarri, S. Janaki, V. Ganesan, Ali Hasan Ali, Kamsing Nonlaopon and Omar Bazighifan
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 585; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030585
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/585

20. “Timelike Circular Surfaces and Singularities in Minkowski 3-Space”
by Yanlin Li, Fatemah Mofarreh and Rashad A. Abdel-Baky
Symmetry 2022, 14(9), 1914; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14091914
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/9/1914

21. “The Numerical Investigation of a Fractional-Order Multi-Dimensional Model of Navier–Stokes Equation via Novel Techniques”
by Safyan Mukhtar, Rasool Shah and Saima Noor
Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1102; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061102
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1102

22. “On Odd Perks-G Class of Distributions: Properties, Regression Model, Discretization, Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Estimation, and Applications”
by Ibrahim Elbatal, Naif Alotaibi, Ehab M. Almetwally, Salem A. Alyami and Mohammed Elgarhy
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 883; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050883
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/883

23. “A Comparative Study of the Fractional Coupled Burgers and Hirota–Satsuma KdV Equations via Analytical Techniques”
by Humaira Yasmin and Naveed Iqbal
Symmetry 2022, 14(7), 1364; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14071364
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1364

24. “The Characterizations of Parallel q-Equidistant Ruled Surfaces”
by Yanlin Li, Süleyman Şenyurt, Ahmet Özduran and Davut Canlı
Symmetry 2022, 14(9), 1879; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14091879
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/9/1879

25. “The Dual Expression of Parallel Equidistant Ruled Surfaces in Euclidean 3-Space”
by Sümeyye Gür Mazlum, Süleyman Şenyurt and Luca Grilli
Symmetry 2022, 14(5),1062; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14051062
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/1062

26. “An Exact Solution to a Quaternion Matrix Equation with an Application”
by Long-Sheng Liu, Qing-Wen Wang, Jiang-Feng Chen and Yu-Zhu Xie
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 375; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020375
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/375

27. “A Comparative Analysis of Fractional-Order Kaup–Kupershmidt Equation within Different Operators”
by Nehad Ali Shah, Yasser S. Hamed, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Jae-Dong Chung, Rasool Shah and Adnan Khan
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 986; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050986
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/986

28. “Some Fuzzy Riemann–Liouville Fractional Integral Inequalities for Preinvex Fuzzy Interval-Valued Functions”
by Muhammad Bilal Khan, Hatim Ghazi Zaini, Jorge E. Macías-Díaz, Savin Treanțǎ and Mohamed S. Soliman
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 313; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020313
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/313

29. “Generating Soft Topologies via Soft Set Operators”
by A. A. Azzam, Zanyar A. Ameen, Tareq M. Al-shami and Mohammed E. El-Shafei
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 914; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050914
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/914

30. “Sustainable and Robust Home Healthcare Logistics: A Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
by Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard, Abbas Ahmadi and Behrooz Karimi
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 193; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020193
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/193

31.“Electromagnetic Flow of SWCNT/MWCNT Suspensions in Two Immiscible Water- and Engine-Oil-Based Newtonian Fluids through Porous Media”
by Ahmad Zeeshan, Nasir Shehzad, Muhammad Atif, Rahmat Ellahi and Sadiq M. Sait
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020406
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/406

32. “Multivalent Prestarlike Functions with Respect to Symmetric Points”
by Daniel Breaz, Kadhavoor R. Karthikeyan and Alagiriswamy Senguttuvan
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/20

33. “Fast Computation of Highly Oscillatory ODE Problems: Applications in High-Frequency Communication Circuits”
by Sakhi Zaman, Latif Ullah Khan, Irshad Hussain and Lucian Mihet-Popa
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010115
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/115

34. “Guidance Image-Based Enhanced Matched Filter with Modified Thresholding for Blood Vessel Extraction”
by Sonali Dash, Sahil Verma, Kavita, Savitri Bevinakoppa, Marcin Wozniak, Jana Shafi and Muhammad Fazal Ijaz
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 194; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020194
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/194

35. “Inferences for Alpha Power Exponential Distribution Using Adaptive Progressively Type-II Hybrid Censored Data with Applications”
by Refah Alotaibi, Ahmed Elshahhat, Hoda Rezk and Mazen Nassar
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 651;https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040651
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/651

36. “Third-Order Differential Subordination Results for Analytic Functions Associated with a Certain Differential Operator”
by Amal Mohammed Darweesh, Waggas Galib Atshan, Ali Hussein Battor and Alina Alb Lupaş
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 99; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010099
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/99

37. “Optimal Plan of Multi-Stress–Strength Reliability Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Methods for the Alpha Power Exponential Model Using Progressive First Failure”
by Ehab M. Almetwally, Refah Alotaibi, Aned Al Mutairi, Chanseok Park and Hoda Rezk
Symmetry 2022, 14(7), 1306; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14071306
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1306

38. “A New Class of Bertrand Curves in Euclidean 4-Space”
by Yanlin Li, Ali Uçum, Kazım İlarslan and Çetin Camcı
Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1191; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061191
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1191

39. “Analytical Investigation of Fractional-Order Korteweg–De-Vries-Type Equations under Atangana–Baleanu–Caputo Operator: Modeling Nonlinear Waves in a Plasma and Fluid”
by Nehad Ali Shah, Haifa A. Alyousef, Samir A. El-Tantawy, Rasool Shah and Jae Dong Chung
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 739; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040739
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/739

40. “Fractional Calculus for Convex Functions in Interval-Valued Settings and Inequalities”
by Muhammad Bilal Khan, Hatim Ghazi Zaini, Savin Treanțǎ, Gustavo Santos-García, Jorge E. Macías-Díaz and Mohamed S. Soliman
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020341
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/341

41. “Impact of Brownian Motion on the Analytical Solutions of the Space-Fractional Stochastic Approximate Long Water Wave Equation”
by Farah M. Al-Askar, Wael W. Mohammed and Mohammad Alshammari
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 740; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040740
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/740

42. “Extended Approach to the Asymptotic Behavior and Symmetric Solutions of Advanced Differential Equations”
by Omar Bazighifan, Ali Hasan Ali, Fatemah Mofarreh and Youssef N. Raffoul
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 686; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040686
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/686

43. “Exploiting the Pascal Distribution Series and Gegenbauer Polynomials to Construct and Study a New Subclass of Analytic Bi-Univalent Functions”
by Ala Amourah, Basem Aref Frasin, Morad Ahmad and Feras Yousef
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010147
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/147

MDPI will be attending the XII Reunión del grupo de física de la materia condensada de la RSEF (GEFES 2023) in Salamanca, Spain, which will take place from 1 to 3 February 2023. The GEFES 2023 is the annual meeting of GEFES, the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Spanish Royal Physics Society. The theme of GEFES 2023 is to review the condensed matter physics research achievements of the society in the past year and discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field.

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• Electronics;
• Nanomaterials;
• Energies;
• Materials;
• Symmetry;
• Electronic Materials;
• Physics;
• Condensed Matter.

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We are pleased to announce the winner of the Symmetry (ISSN: 2073-8994) 2022 Young Investigator Award—Prof. Dr. Yao Chen.

Prof. Dr. Yao Chen was born in 1986, obtaining his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at the Southeast University in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He then became an Associate Professor of Southeast University in 2017 and a Full Professor in 2020. During these years, he has made academic visits to the University of Cambridge, Tokyo University, MIT, Caltech, etc., and obtained the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2018–2020. Currently, he is a committee member of IASS WG6, WG13, and ASCE/EMI. His research interests include advanced structures (e.g., tensegrity, origami, kirigami, deployable structures), computational symmetry methods (e.g., group theory, graph products), computational mechanics, and the mechanics of materials.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Yao Chen for his outstanding achievements.

We would like to thank the award committee for their excellent work in the hard task of selecting a winner from such a large number of excellent candidates. We also thank all the nominees from various fields for their participation. We will continue to reward young scientists with the Young Investigator Award and wish them every success in their careers.

For more information about Symmetry awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/awards.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Yao Chen:

1. What does your current research concern and why did you choose this field?

My current research project is about novel design and folding behavior of origami-inspired structures, which has been supported by the NSFC of China and the Humboldt Research of Germany. Because origami neatly describes the mathematics and mechanics of an ancient art about folding paper in China and Japan, it exhibits remarkable geometric transformations, periodic symmetry, programmable stiffness, negative Poisson's Ratio, etc. Owing to these characters, origami structures and metamaterials can be extensively applied into different fields, including engineering structures, solar panels, mechanisms and robotics, and flexible electronics.

2. Which research topics do you think will be of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?

Robust and intelligent design using AI, 3D printing, novel structures and materials.

3. Have you ever encountered any difficulties when conducting your research? How did you overcome them?

Yes. There will always be certain difficulties in our scientific research. Do not lose heart, do not be timid. Just investigate carefully and seek comments and suggestions from others. Then, analyze and solve the problem.

4. What qualities do you think young scientists need today?

We need qualified scientists with carefulness, strictness, professional responsibility, team-spirit and the ability to cooperate, plan short and long-term, etc.

5. Symmetry is an Open Access journal. How do you think Open Access journals impact authors?

Symmetry is a well-renowned international journal. I’ve known about this journal for 12 years and noticed many well-known researchers and experts from Symmetry who published their work in this journal. In my view, Open Access journals are much more conducive to reading, citing and sharing. Thus, new research results published by OA journals can be efficiently and easily noticed. However, it is necessary to strictly control the quality of submitted manuscripts and pay attention to the improvement of the overall reputation for each OA journal.

1. “Limb Preference in Animals: New Insights into the Evolution of Manual Laterality in Hominids”
by Grégoire Boulinguez-Ambroise, Juliette Aychet and Emmanuelle Pouydebat
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010096
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/96

2. “A Systematic Review of Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Improve Gait Asymmetries in Neurological Populations”
by Krista G. Meder, Chanel T. LoJacono and Christopher K. Rhea
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 281; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020281
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/281

3. “A 3D Agent-Based Model of Lung Fibrosis”
by Nicolò Cogno, Roman Bauer and Marco Durante
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010090
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/90

4. “Genetic Factors That Affect Asymmetric Mandibular Growth—A Systematic Review”
by Alicja Babczyńska, Beata Kawala and Michał Sarul
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 490; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030490
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/490

5. “Asymmetry in Muscle Strength, Dynamic Balance, and Range of Motion in Adult Symptomatic Hip Dysplasia”
by Haifang Wang, Hailong Yu, Yonghwan Kim and Tingting Chen
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 748; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040748
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/748

6. “Cerebral Polymorphisms for Lateralisation: Modelling the Genetic and Phenotypic Architectures of Multiple Functional Modules”
by Chris McManus
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 814; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040814
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/814

7. “Structural Brain Asymmetries for Language: A Comparative Approach across Primates”
by Yannick Becker and Adrien Meguerditchian
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 876; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050876
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/876

1. “Spectrum of Primordial Gravitational Waves in Modified Gravities: A Short Overview”
by Sergei D. Odintsov, Vasilis K. Oikonomou and Ratbay Myrzakulov
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 729; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040729
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/729

2. “The Cosmological Constant as Event Horizon”
by Enrique Gaztanaga
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 300; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020300
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/300

3. “Infrasonic, Acoustic and Seismic Waves Produced by the Axion Quark Nuggets”
by Dmitry Budker, Victor V. Flambaum and Ariel Zhitnitsky
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 459; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030459
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/459

4. “Improved Search for Neutron to Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in the Presence of Mirror Magnetic Fields with a Dedicated Apparatus at the PSI UCN Source”
by Nicholas J. Ayres, Zurab Berezhiani, Riccardo Biondi, Georg Bison, Kazimierz Bodek, Vira Bondar, Pin-Jung Chiu, Manfred Daum, Reza Tavakoli Dinani, Cornelis B. Doorenbos et al.
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 503; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030503
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/503

5. “Neutron-Mirror Neutron Oscillations in Absorbing Matter”
by Yuri Kamyshkov, James Ternullo, Louis Varriano and Zurab Berezhiani
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 230; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020230
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/230

6. “From Memristor-Modeled Jerk System to the Nonlinear Systems with Memristor”
by Xianming Wu, Shaobo He, Weijie Tan and Huihai Wang
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 659; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040659
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/659

7. “A Search for Neutron to Mirror Neutron Oscillation Using Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Measurements”
by Prajwal Mohanmurthy, Albert R. Young, Jeff A. Winger and Geza Zsigmond
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 487;  https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030487
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/487

8. “A Search for Cosmic Ray Bursts at 0.1 PeV with a Small Air Shower Array”
by Roger Clay, Jassimar Singh, Piotr Homola, Olaf Bar, Dmitry Beznosko, Apoorva Bhatt, Gopal Bhatta, Łukasz Bibrzycki, Nikolay Budnev, David E. Alvarez-Castillo et al.
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 501; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030501
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/501

9. “Neutron Stars with Baryon Number Violation, Probing Dark Sectors”
by Jeffrey M. Berryman, Susan Gardner and Mohammadreza Zakeri
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030518
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/518

10. “Design of a New Dimension-Changeable Hyperchaotic Model Based on Discrete Memristor”
by Chengjing Wei, Guodong Li and Xiangliang Xu
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14051019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/1019

11. “Time-like Proton Form Factors with Initial State Radiation Technique”
by Dexu Lin, Alaa Dbeyssi and Frank Maas
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/91

12. “Notes on Confinement on R³ × S¹: From Yang–Mills, Super-Yang–Mills, and QCD (adj) to QCD(F)”
by Erich Poppitz
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 180; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010180
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/180

13. “Low-Energy Interactions of Mesons with Participation of the First Radially Excited States in U(3) × U(3) NJL Model”
by Mikhail Konstantinovich Volkov, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Pivovarov and Kanat Nurlan
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020308
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/308

The goal of the Editor’s Choice Articles project is to promote high-quality articles published in the “Chemistry and Symmetry/Asymmetry” Section in Symmetry (ISSN: 2073-8994). Please find below the list of articles carefully handpicked by the scientific editors of the journal, which we believe will be of interest to you.

1. “Functional Chirality: From Small Molecules to Supramolecular Assemblies”
by Alaa Adawy
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020292
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/292

2. “Impact of Molecular Symmetry/Asymmetry on Insulin-Sensitizing Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes”
by Jessica Georgina Filisola-Villaseñor, María E. Aranda-Barradas, Susana Patricia Miranda-Castro, Jessica Elena Mendieta-Wejebe, Amaranta Sarai Valdez Guerrero, Selene Amasis Guillen Castro, Macario Martínez Castillo, Feliciano Tamay-Cach and Samuel Álvarez-Almazán
Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1240; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061240
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1240

3. “Chirality in Organic and Mineral Systems: A Review of Reactivity and Alteration Processes Relevant to Prebiotic Chemistry and Life Detection Missions”
by Carina Lee, Jessica M. Weber, Laura E. Rodriguez, Rachel Y. Sheppard, Laura M. Barge, Eve L. Berger and Aaron S. Burton
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 460; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030460
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/460

4. “How Symmetry Influences the Dissociation of Protonated Cyclic Peptides”
by Ariel F. Pérez-Mellor, Riccardo Spezia and Anne Zehnacker
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 679; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040679
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/679

5. “Evolution of Microstructure, Texture and Corrosion Properties of Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg Alloy Subjected to Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP)”
by Przemysław Snopiński, Anna Woźniak, Dariusz Łukowiec, Krzysztof Matus, Tomasz Tański, Stanislav Rusz and Ondřej Hilšer
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 674; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040674
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/4/674

6. “Recent Progress of Squaraine-Based Fluorescent Materials and Their Biomedical Applications”
by Weiguo Qiao and Zhong’an Li
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 966; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050966
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/5/966

7. “Homochiral or Heterochiral: A Systematic Study of Threonine Clusters Using a FT ICR Mass Spectrometer”
by Luyang Jiao, Mengying Du, Yameng Hou, Yuan Ma and Xianglei Kong
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010086
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/86

8. “Symmetry Constraints on Spin Order Transfer in Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization (PHIP)”
by Andrey N. Pravdivtsev, Danila A. Barskiy, Jan-Bernd Hövener and Igor V. Koptyug
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 530; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030530
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/530

9. “Lamellar Tetragonal Symmetry of Amphiphilic Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals in the Framework of Other Closely Related Highly Ordered Structures”
by Michael Arkas, Marilina Douloudi, Michail Vardavoulias and Theodora Katsika
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020394
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/394

10. “Analysis of Electro-Optical Behavior in Liquid Crystal Cells with Asymmetric Anchoring Strength”
by Rumiko Yamaguchi
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010085
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/85

11. “Attaching Onto or Inserting Into an Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond: Exploring and Controlling a Chirality-Dependent Dilemma for Alcohols”
by Manuel Lange, Elisabeth Sennert and Martin A. Suhm
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 357; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020357
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/357

12. “MCD and Induced CD of a Tetraphenoxyperylene-Based Dye in Chiral Solvents: An Experimental and Computational Study”
by Simone Ghidinelli, Marco Fusè, Giuseppe Mazzeo, Sergio Abbate and Giovanna Longhi
Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1108; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061108
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1108

13. “Interface Asymmetry Induced and Surface Pressure Controlled Valence Tautomerism in Monolayers of bis-Phthalocyaninates of Lanthanides”
by Daria S. Kutsybala, Alexander V. Shokurov, Alexander G. Martynov, Alexey V. Yagodin, Vladimir V. Arslanov, Yulia G. Gorbunova and Sofiya L. Selektor
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 340; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020340
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/340

14. “Crystal Structure of Chiral Drug Prenalterol and Its Precursor Prone to Spontaneous Resolution”
by Alexander A. Bredikhin, Robert R. Fayzullin and Zemfira A. Bredikhina
Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1150; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061150
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1150

15. “Energetic and Geometric Characteristics of Substituents, Part 3: The Case of NO₂ and NH₂ Groups in Their Mono-Substituted Derivatives of Six-Membered Heterocycles”
by Paweł A. Wieczorkiewicz, Halina Szatylowicz and Tadeusz M. Krygowski
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 145; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010145
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/145

We would like to thank all the research groups that authored these exceptional papers for their contribution. We sincerely hope you find these articles of Symmetry as useful and insightful as we have found them.

1. “Best Dominants and Subordinants for Certain Sandwich-Type Theorems”
by Adriana Cătaş, Emilia Borşa and Loredana Iambor
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010062
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/62

2. “On the Unique Solvability of Incomplete Cauchy Type Problems for a Class of Multi-Term Equations with the Riemann–Liouville Derivatives”
by Vladimir E. Fedorov, Wei-Shih Du and Mikhail M. Turov
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010075
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/75

3. “Intelligent System for Estimation of the Spatial Position of Apples Based on YOLOv3 and Real Sense Depth Camera D415”
by Nikita Andriyanov, Ilshat Khasanshin, Daniil Utkin, Timur Gataullin, Stefan Ignar, Vyacheslav Shumaev and Vladimir Soloviev
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 148; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010148
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/1/148

4. “Transient Propagation of Spherical Waves in Porous Material: Application of Fractional Calculus”
by Zine El Abiddine Fellah, Mohamed Fellah, Rémi Roncen, Nicholas O. Ongwen, Erick Ogam and Claude Depollier
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020233
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/233

5. “Bayesian Interval Estimation for the Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution Based on the Right Type II Censored Sample”
by Shu-Fei Wu
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 352; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020352
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/2/352

6. “Some Results in the Theory of a Cosserat Thermoelastic Body with Microtemperatures and Inner Structure”
by Marin Marin, Sorin Vlase, Eduard M. Craciun, Nicolae Pop and Ioan Tuns
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 511; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030511
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/511