We are pleased to announce the winners of the Materials 2024 Best Paper Awards. All the papers published in Materials (ISSN: 1996-1944) in 2022 were considered. After evaluating the originality and significance of the papers, citations and download data, six articles and six reviews were selected.

First Prize: CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Materials in 2024.

Article:
“Antenna Characteristics of Helical Coil with 2.45 GHz Semiconductor Microwave for Microwave-Enhanced Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (MW-LIBS)”
by Yuji Ikeda, Yoshihiko Hirata, Joey Kim Soriano and Ikuo Wakaida
Materials 2022, 15(8), 2851; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15082851

Review:
“Solid Lubrication at High-Temperatures—A Review”
by Rahul Kumar, Irina Hussainova, Ramin Rahmani and Maksim Antonov
Materials 2022, 15(5), 1695; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15051695

Second Prize: CHF 300, an electronic certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Materials in 2024.

Articles:
“EIS Characterization of Ti Alloys in Relation to Alloying Additions of Ta”
by Pedro P. Socorro-Perdomo, Néstor R. Florido-Suárez, Julia C. Mirza-Rosca and Mircea Vicentiu Saceleanu
Materials 2022, 15(2), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15020476

“Back-Propagation Neural Network Optimized by K-Fold Cross-Validation for Prediction of Torsional Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beam”
by Zhaoqiu Lyu, Yang Yu, Bijan Samali, Maria Rashidi, Masoud Mohammadi, Thuc N. Nguyen and Andy Nguyen
Materials 2022, 15(4), 1477; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15041477

Reviews:
“Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials—Design Principles and Their Implementation”
by Mohammad J. Mirzaali, Vahid Moosabeiki, Seyed Mohammad Rajaai, Jie Zhou and Amir A. Zadpoor
Materials 2022, 15(15), 5457; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15155457

“Root Causes and Mechanisms of Failure of Wind Turbine Blades: Overview”
by Leon Mishnaevsky, Jr.
Materials 2022, 15(9), 2959; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15092959

Third Prize: CHF 200, an electronic certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Materials in 2024.

Articles:
“Chirality in the Solid State: Chiral Crystal Structures in Chiral and Achiral Space Groups”
by Gerhard H. Fecher, Jürgen Kübler and Claudia Felser
Materials 2022, 15(17), 5812; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15175812

“Strength Properties of 316L and 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Produced with Additive Manufacturing”
by Slawomir Kedziora, Thierry Decker, Elvin Museyibov, Julian Morbach, Steven Hohmann, Adrian Huwer and Michael Wahl
Materials 2022, 15(18), 6278; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15186278

“Hydroxyapatite Coating on Ti-6Al-7Nb Alloy by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation in Salt-Based Electrolyte”
by Avital Schwartz, Alexey Kossenko, Michael Zinigrad, Yosef Gofer, Konstantin Borodianskiy and Alexander Sobolev
Materials 2022, 15(20), 7374; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15207374

Reviews:
“Photovoltaic Cell Generations and Current Research Directions for Their Development”
by Justyna Pastuszak and Paweł Węgierek
Materials 2022, 15(16), 5542; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15165542

“Magnesium-Based Alloys Used in Orthopedic Surgery”
by Iulian Antoniac, Marian Miculescu, Veronica Mănescu (Păltânea), Alexandru Stere, Pham Hong Quan, Gheorghe Păltânea, Alina Robu and Kamel Earar
Materials 2022, 15(3), 1148; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15031148

“Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials with Polymers, Biomolecules, and Small Ligands for Nanomedicine”
by Ana M. Díez-Pascual
Materials 2022, 15(9), 3251; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15093251

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Materials 2024 Best Paper Award. We would also like to thank all our authors for their continued support of Materials.

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