Recipients of the 2017 Acta Student Awards

A team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia editors has completed the evaluation of nominees for the above awards. Each year we receive many excellent nominations and selecting the winners is a challenging task. Several factors are considered in the evaluation of each nominee: the quality of paper, or papers, for which he or she was nominated, recommendation letters, and leadership potential. The awardees selected from papers published in 2017 in the Acta Journals are:

• Additively manufactured metallic porous biomaterials based on minimal surfaces: A unique combination of topological, mechanical, and mass transport properties
  Ms. Françoise S.L. Bobbert
  Acta Biomaterialia, 2017
• Mechanical characterization of human brain tissue
  Dr. Silvia Budday
  Acta Biomaterialia, 2017
• Slip activation controlled nanohardness anisotropy of ZrB2 ceramic grains
  Dr. Tamás Csanádi
  Acta Materialia, 2017
• Moldable elastomeric polyester-carbon nanotube scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering
  Mr. Locke Davenport-Huyer
  Acta Biomaterialia, 2017
• In-situ micro-cantilever bending test in environmental scanning electron microscope: Real time observation of hydrogen enhanced cracking
  Ms. Yun Deng
  Scripta Materialia, 2017
• A novel high-strain-rate ferrite dynamic softening mechanism facilitated by the interphase in the austenite/ferrite microstructure
  Dr. Nima Haghdadi
  Acta Materialia, 2017
• Massive nanoprecipitation in an Fe-19Ni-xAl maraging steel triggered by the intrinsic heat treatment during laser metal deposition
  Mr. Philipp Kürnsteiner
  Acta Materialia, 2017
• Nanosized sustained-release drug depots fabricated using modified tri-axial electrospinning
  Ms. Jiao-Jiao Li
  Acta Biomaterialia, 2017
• Profuse slip transmission across twin boundaries in magnesium
  Dr. Konstantin Molodov
  Acta Materialia 2017

The editors would like to congratulate the awardees and thank all the nominees for their participation.  We look forward to continuing to work with and support these excellent young researchers as their careers unfold.

Christopher A. Schuh
Coordinating Editor, Acta Journals