Recipients of the 2022 Acta Student Awards

A team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia editors have 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 the individual was nominated, recommendation letters, and leadership potential.?The awardees selected from papers published in 2022 in the Acta Journals are:

Mr. Saleem Al Dajani , Massachusetts Institute of Technology & King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, United States/Saudi Arabia. Advisor: Prof. Michael Short.?Detecting Thermally-Induced Spinodal Decomposition with Picosecond Ultrasonics in Cast Austenitic Stainless Steels,?Acta Materialia 246 (2023) 118552.

Ms. Du Cheng, University of Virginia, United States. Advisor: Prof. Bi-Cheng Zhou.??Atomic structures of ordered monolayer GP zones in Mg-Zn-X (X= Ca, Nd) systems, Scripta Materialia 216 (2022) 114744.

Mr. Miguel de Brito Costa , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Advisor: Prof. A. Lindsay Greer.?Anelastic-like nature of the rejuvenation of metallic glasses by cryogenic thermal cycling, Acta Materialia 244 (2023) 118551.

Ms. Nicole Day, PhD , University of Colorado Boulder, United States. Advisor: Dr. C. Wyatt Shields IV. Tissue-adhesive hydrogel for multimodal drug release to immune cells in skin, Acta Biomaterialia 150 (2022) 211-220.

Mr. Jonathan Hestroffer, Ph.D. , University of California Santa Barbara, United States. Advisor: Prof. Irene Beyerlein. Development of grain-scale slip activity and lattice rotation fields in Inconel 718, Acta Materialia 226 (2022) 117627.

Mr. Krishna Kundu, Ph. D. , North Dakota State University, United States. Advisor: Prof. Katti Kalpana.?Initial upsurge of BMPs enhances long-term osteogenesis in in-vitro bone regeneration,?Materialia 26 (2022) 101576.

Dr. Isabela Reis Lavagnini , University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Advisor: Prof. Eliria M. J. A. Pallone.?Influence of forming methods on the microstructure of 3YSZ flash-sintered ceramics, Materialia 22 (2022)?101419.

Dr. Brandon Leu , University of California Santa Barbara, United States. Advisor: Prof. Irene Beyerlein.?Twinning pathways enabled by precipitates in AZ91, Materialia 21 (2022) 101292.

Mr.? Pedro J. Díaz Payno, PhD , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Advisor: Prof. Daniel J. Kelly. Bilayered extracellular matrix derived scaffolds with anisotropic pore architecture guide tissue organization during osteochondral defect repair, Acta Biomaterialia 143 (2022) 266-281.

Dr. Anna Pukaluk , Graz University of Technology, Austria. Advisors: Profs. Gerhard A. Holzapfel?and Gerhard Sommer. An ultrastructural 3D reconstruction method for observing the arrangement of collagen fibrils and proteoglycans in the human aortic wall under mechanical load, Acta Biomaterialia 141 (2022) 300-314.

Ms. Xue Wang, University of Tennessee, United States. Advisor: Prof. Yanfei Gao. Determination of the friction stir welding window from the solid-state bonding mechanics under severe thermomechanical conditions,?Materialia 21 (2022) 101350.

?Ms. Wu You, Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Advisor: Prof. Chen Zhuofan. Optimizing the bio-degradability and biocompatibility of a biogenic collagen membrane through cross-linking and zinc-doped hydroxyapatite, Acta Biomaterialia 143 (2022) 159-172.

Dr. Fengqi Zhang, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Advisors: ?Dr. Niels van Dijk and Prof. Ekkes Bru?ck.?Impact of F and S doping on (Mn,Fe)2(P,Si) giant magnetocaloric materials, Acta Materialia 234 (2022) 118057.

Dr.?Wanquan Zhu, Chongqing University, China. Advisor:?Prof. Xiaoxu Huang &?Prof.?Andrew Godfrey.?Five-parameter grain boundary character distribution of gold nanoparticles based on three dimensional orientation mapping in the TEM, Scripta Materialia 214 (2022) 114677.