We are delighted to announce this years annual Materials Advances Paper Prize, celebrating the most significant articles published in the journal in the previous calendar year.

This year we recognise 3 outstanding papers that were published in 2023. Find the winner and runner-up papers below.

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize winner:

Redox-active, porous pyrene tetraone dendritic polymers as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Lucas Ueberricke, Felix Mildner, Yuquan Wu, Elisa Thauer, Tom Wickenhäuser, Wen-Shan Zhang, Yana Vaynzof, Sven M. Elbert, Rasmus R. Schröder, Rüdiger Klingeler and Michael Mastalerz

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Fabrication of low-cost and flexible perovskite solar cells by slot-die coating for indoor applications†

Cristina Teixeira, Rosinda Fuentes-Pineda, Luísa Andrade, Adélio Mendes and Dávid Forgács

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Evaluation of techniques used for visualisation of hydrogel morphology and determination of pore size distributions

Imanda Jayawardena, Petri Turunen, Bruna Cambraia Garms, Alan Rowan, Simon Corrie and Lisbeth Grøndahl

If you want to be in with a chance of winning the Materials Advances Paper Prize in a future year then submit your next high quality materials science research to the journal here.

Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Materials Advances, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances were delighted to support two of the young researcher awards at Symposium G: Nanomaterials for Healthcare and Biomedical Engineering at the Spring E-MRS which was held in Strasbourg from May 27 – 31.

The young researcher awardees were selected by a jury of symposium committee and received prizes for their outstanding oral presentations. Please join us in congratulating Preeti Sati (IIT Kanpur) and Quoc Hung Tran (Institute of Material Science of Mulhouse, IS2M, CNRS)  for being awarded these prizes! Find out more about our winners below:

Preeti Sati hails from the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India. She completed her primary education in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, and completed her M.Tech degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras under the supervision of Prof. S. Ramprabhu. Her M.Tech thesis is titled “Graphene wrapped carbon nanotube based nanofluids for thermal conductivity applications”. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. under Prof. Sri Sivakumar in the Material Science Programme department at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where she is working on “In vitro liver Models for drug screening and disease modelling.

Hung Quoc Tran is currently pursuing his PhD in Life Sciences at Université de Haute Alsace, supervised by Dr. Valeriy Luchnikov at IS2M and Professor Thierry Vandamme at CRBS, Université de Strasbourg. His research interests include drug delivery systems, biomaterials, and nanotechnology. His current research focuses on the application of interface modification methods and enzymatic crosslinked biomaterials to enhance drug delivery efficiency in transdermal therapeutic systems, gastroretentive systems, and bio-membrane filtration for medical devices. Previously, he spent several years as a researcher at Lam Dong Medical College, gaining extensive experience working on various projects involving the chemical and biological investigation of natural plants, as well as topical and cosmetic formulation. He obtained a PharmD in Vietnam in 2016 and Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences from Université Paris Cité in 2019

About the symposium

Materials are going to hold an important role in healthcare applications. A symposium (G) on Nanomaterials for Healthcare and Biomedical Engineering, was organized at the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) Spring 2024 meetings in Strasbourg, France. The symposium attracted over 160 contributions from all over the world and was a very successful conference. This theme- Materials for Healthcare- is going to be a major focus at European and global landscapes and the organizers are motivated to continue hosting this symposium in long run. The Royal Society of Chemistry was very happy to sponsor the symposium in terms of two young researcher awards (Ms. Preeti Sati, Ms. Hung Quoc Tran) to motivate and promote the young researchers in the field of materials for healthcare.

Organizers:

Yogendra Kumar Mishra, University of Southern Denmark, DENMARK (MAIN)

Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, GERMANY(Co-organizer)

Malgorzata  Kujawska, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, POLAND (Co-organizer)

Gerardo Goya, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN (Co-organizer)

Yunbing Wang, Sichuan University , Chengdu, CHINA (Co-organizer)

https://www.european-mrs.com/meetings/2024-spring-meeting

https://www.european-mrs.com/nanomaterials-healthcare-and-biomedical-engineering-emrs

Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry C were delighted to sponsor a best oral presentation and best poster prize at Symposium T: Doping in organic semiconductors: fundamentals, materials and applications at the recent Spring E-MRS 2024 conference which was held in Strasbourg from May 27 – 31.

The winners were decided by a jury of invited speakers and the prizes were presented in an award ceremony at the end of the symposium.

Please join us in congratulating Joost Kimpel and Krzysztof Kotewicz for being selected as the winners! Find out more about them both below:

Krzysztof Kotewicz is currently working as a PhD student in Prof. Ergang Wang’s group at Chalmers University of Technology. His research focuses on conjugated materials for organic electronics, in particular light-emitting electrochemical cells. Beforehand, he completed BSc Eng degree in chemical technology at Gdansk University of Technology in 2018, followed by a joint Nordic Five Tech Master degree in polymer technology at Technical University of Denmark and Chalmers University of Technology in 2021. Krzysztof was awarded the poster prize sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry C for his poster entitled, ‘Acidochromic behavior of TFA-doped IDT-based conjugated polymers containing azo, imine and vinyl bonds’

Joost Kimpel is a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Christian Müller. Before his PhD, he was awarded a MChem in Chemistry from Oxford University (2019) followed by a MSci in Materials Science and Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology (2021). He currently works on the simplifying the synthesis of new polythiophenes bearing polar side chains for a variety of organic electronics applications. Joost was awarded the presentation prize sponsored by Materials Horizons for his presentation entitled, ‘Synthetically Simple Organic Semiconductors for Thermoelectrics Prepared via Direct Arylation Polymerization’