Atlas award: Nominated articles

If you haven't heard about Elsevier's new project, then here's the place to learn more. Meet Atlas.

Each month Atlas will showcase research that can (or already has) significantly impact people's lives around the world and we hope that bringing wider attention to this research will go some way to ensuring its successful implementation.

With so many worthy articles published the tough job of selecting a single article to be awarded "The Atlas" each month comes down to an Advisory Board. The winning research is presented alongside interviews, expert opinions, multimedia and much more on the Atlas website.

We aim to showcase some of the articles that can make a real difference and hope you'll find this to be a valuable resource.

Each month the Atlas Advisory Board are sent a selection of 10 articles to choose their winning Atlas article. Below, please see the Materials Science selected articles. Congratulations to all our authors who have been nominated.

May Nominations

• Polymer recycling codes for distributed manufacturing with 3-D printers
  Resources, Conservation and Recycling

April Nominations

• Development of a catheter functionalized by a polydopamine peptide coating with antimicrobial and antibiofilm properties
  Acta Biomaterialia

March Nominations

March Winning article (free access)

• Carbon nanotube membranes for water purification: A bright future in water desalination
  Desalination
   
• Ultrashort peptide nanofibrous hydrogels for the acceleration of healing of burn wounds
  Biomaterials
• Flexible triboelectric generator
  Nano Energy

February Nominations

• The Miller?s knot as an alternative to the surgical knotting? Characterization of the mechanical behavior
  Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

January Nominations

• High-brightness LEDs—Energy efficient lighting sources and their potential in indoor plant cultivation
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews