Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

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

This year we recognise four outstanding papers that were published in 2024. Find the winner and runner-up papers below.

Materials Advances 2025 Paper Prize Winner:

Control of spin on ferromagnetism and thermoelectric properties of K₂GeMnX₆ (X = Cl, Br, I) halide perovskites: emerging candidates for semiconductor spintronics and thermoelectric applications 

Mudasir Younis Sofi, Mohd Shahid Khan and M. Ajmal Khan

Materials Advances 2025 Paper Prize runner-up:

Novel chemically reduced cobalt-doped g-C₃N₄ (CoCN-x) as a highly heterogeneous catalyst for the super-degradation of organic dyes via peroxymonosulfate activation

Aboubakr Ben Hamou, Mohamed Enneiymy, Salaheddine Farsad, Asma Amjlef, Ayoub Chaoui, Nisrine Nouj, Ali Majdoub, Amane Jada, Mohamed Ez-zahery and Noureddine El Alem

Materials Advances 2025 Paper Prize runner-up:

3D printable gelatin/nisin biomaterial inks for antimicrobial tissue engineering applications 

Mateo Dallos Ortega, Jenny Aveyard, Alexander Ciupa, Robert J. Poole, David Whetnall, Julia G. Behnsen and Raechelle A. D’Sa

Materials Advances 2025 Paper Prize runner-up:

Coherent X-ray imaging of stochastic dynamics

Arnab Sarkar and Allan S. Johnson