Left to right: Conference Chair C. T. Liu, Session Chair and Conference Award winner Mingwei Chen, Materials Today Editor Stewart Bland.Following the success of the Materials Today Asia conference held in December last year, it is our pleasure to announce and congratulate the winners of the conference contribution awards, as selected by the session chairs.
Congratulations to the Advanced Materials and Processing session winner Masahiko Ando (Hitachi Ltd, Japan) for the oral presentation ‘Possible static disorder induced charge localization in crystalline molecular semiconductors’; Biomaterials session winner Yongmee Jung (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) for the oral presentation ’Self-assembling peptide nanofiber coupled with neuropeptide substance P for stem cell recruitment’; Materials for Energy session winner Han Gao (University of Toronto, Canada) for the oral presentation ‘Advanced proton conducting polymer electrolytes and their applications in solid supercapacitors’; and Nanoscience and Technology session winner Yoshinori Sato, Tohoku University, Japan for the poster presentation ‘Photo-thermoelectric power of single-walled carbon nanotube films’.
In addition to the contribution awards, the Materials Today Conference Award was presented to one researcher based on their outstanding contribution to the field of materials science. As selected by conference Chair, Prof. C. T. Liu, the first Materials Today Conference Award Winner was presented to Professor Mingwei Chen, for his contributions on bulk metallic glasses, ultrahigh strength materials and nanoporous metals.
On behalf of the conference organizing committee, we would also like to thank all of those that took part in the meeting.
Left to right: Session Chair T. G. Nieh, Session Chair Steve Zinkle, Conference Chair C. T. Liu, Session Chair and Conference Award winner Mingwei Chen, Materials Today Editor Stewart Bland, Contributor Award winner Masahiko Ando, Contributor Award winner Yoshinori Sato.