A team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia editors has completed the evaluation of nominees for the above awards. This year we received many excellent nominations and selecting the winners was an incredibly 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 2020 in the Acta Journals are:
Dr. Cemile Basgul, Drexel University, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Steven M. Kurtz. “Thermal Localization Improves the Interlayer Adhesion and Structural Integrity of 3D printed PEEK Lumbar Spinal Cages", Materialia 10 (2020) 100650.
Dr. Alice Cervellon, Institut Pprime (ISAE-ENSMA), FRANCE. Advisor: Jonathan Cormier. "Crack initiation mechanisms during very high cycle fatigue of Ni-based single crystal superalloys at high temperature", Acta Materialia 188 (2020) 131-144.
Mr. Haokai Dong, Tohoku-Tsinghua Universities joint program, CHINA. Advisors: Hao Chen, Zhigang Yang, Yongjie Zhang and Goro Miyamoto. "A comparative study on intrinsic mobility of incoherent and semicoherent interfaces during the austenite to ferrite transformation”, Scripta Materialia 188 (2020) 59-63.
Dr. Patrícia Figueiredo, University of Helsinki, FINLAND Advisor: Hélder A. Santos. "Peptide-guided resiquimod-loaded lignin nanoparticles convert tumor-associated macrophages from M2 to M1 phenotype for enhanced chemotherapy", Acta Biomaterialia “in press”.
Dr. Cheng-Yao Huang, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN. Advisor: Hung-Wei Yen. “New protocol for orientation reconstruction from martensite to austenite in steels", Materialia 9 (2020) 100554.
Dr. Nikola Koutná, TU Wien, AUSTRIA. Advisor: Paul Mayrhofer. "High-throughput first-principles search for ceramic superlattices with improved ductility and fracture resistance", Acta Materialia 206 (2021) 116615.
Mr. Sebastian Kube, Yale University, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Jan Schroers. "Metastability in high entropy alloys”, Scripta Materialia 186 (2020) 392-400
Dr. Mao Mao, Xi’an Jiaotong University, CHINA. Advisor: Jiankang He. “Multi-directional cellular alignment in 3D guided by electrohydrodynamically-printed microlattices”, Acta Biomaterialia 101 (2020) 141-151.
Mr. William Meador, The University of Texas at Austin, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Manuel K. Rausch. “A detailed mechanical and microstructural analysis of ovine tricuspid valve leaflets”, Acta Biomaterialia 102 (2020) 100-113.
Mr. Jonathan Priedeman, University of Alabama, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Gregory Thompson. "The influence of alloying in stabilizing a faceted grain boundary structure", Acta Materialia 201 (2020) 329-340.
Mr. Ankit Roy, Lehigh University, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Ganesh Balasubramanian. "Machine learned feature identification for predicting phase and Young's modulus of low-, medium- and high-entropy alloys”, Scripta Materialia 185 (2020) 152-158.
Mr. Shobhit Singh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA. Advisors: Dr. Praveen Kumar and Prof. Michael. E. Kassner. “The low-stress and high-temperature creep in LiF single crystals: An explanation for the So-called Harper-Dorn creep", Materialia 13 (2020) 100864.
Dr. Flora Somidin, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, MALAYSIA. Advisor: Prof. Kazuhiro Nogita, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA. "Direct observation of the Ni stabilising effect in interfacial (Cu,Ni)6Sn5 intermetallic compounds", Materialia 9 (2020) 100530.
Mr. Shaolou Wei, MIT, UNITED STATES. Advisor: Prof. Cemal Cem Tasan. "Deformation faulting in a metastable CoCrNiW complex concentrated alloy: A case of negative intrinsic stacking fault energy?”, Acta Materialia 200 (2020) 992-1007.
Dr. Jianhua Zhang, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND. Advisor: Ralph Müller. “Optimization of mechanical stiffness and cell density of 3D bioprinted cell-laden scaffolds improves extracellular matrix mineralization and cellular organization for bone tissue engineering", Acta Biomaterialia 114 (2020) 307-322.
Award Winners (from left to right): Alice Cervellon, Ankit Roy, Cemille Basgul, Flora Somidin, Haokai Dong, Jianhua Zhang, Johnathan Priedeman, Mao Mao, Nikola Koutna, Cheng-Yao Huang, Patricia Figueiredo, Sebastian Kube, Shaolou Wei, Shobhit Singh, Wiliam Meador