Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Materials Today cover competition!

Shelby Hutchens from the California Institute of Technology

Li Zhang from ETH Zurich

Rajan Tandon from Sandia National Lab

Sotelo Mieg Andrés from the ICMA (CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza)

Seyed Shahin Homaeigohar from the Institute of Polymer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG)

Anton Gavrilov from the Lomonosov Moscow State University

Jia Liu from Corning Incorporated

Carla Cunha from ISTEC, CNR - Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

Bran Julien from the University of Rouen

Alexander Obraztsov from the University of Eastern Finland

Each of the winners will have their image featured on the cover of an issue of Materials Today in 2012, and will also write for the magazine, as part of our Uncovered feature.

We received over 400 fantastic entries: thank you to everyone who entered.

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