The goal of “Editor’s Choice Articles” project is to promote high-quality articles published in Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417). Please find below the list of articles carefully handpicked by the scientific editors of the journal, which we believe will be of interest to you.

1. “Applications of Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Technology in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry”
by Mária Domonkos, Petra Tichá, Jan Trejbal and Pavel Demo
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(11), 4809; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11114809
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/11/4809

2. “Hydrothermal and Entropy Investigation of Ag/MgO/H₂O Hybrid Nanofluid Natural Convection in a Novel Shape of Porous Cavity”
by Nidal Abu-Libdeh, Fares Redouane, Abderrahmane Aissa, Fateh Mebarek-Oudina, Ahmad Almuhtady, Wasim Jamshed and Wael Al-Kouz
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(4), 1722; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041722
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1722

3. “Extensive Benchmarking of DFT+U Calculations for Predicting Band Gaps”
by Nicole E. Kirchner-Hall, Wayne Zhao, Yihuang Xiong, Iurii Timrov and Ismaila Dabo
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(5), 2395; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052395
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/5/2395

4. “A Review on Recent Advancements of Graphene and Graphene-Related Materials in Biological Applications”
by Federica Catania, Elena Marras, Mauro Giorcelli, Pravin Jagdale, Luca Lavagna, Alberto Tagliaferro and Mattia Bartoli
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(2), 614; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11020614
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/2/614

5. “Fe₃O₄ Nanoparticles: Structures, Synthesis, Magnetic Properties, Surface Functionalization, and Emerging Applications”
by Minh Dang Nguyen, Hung-Vu Tran, Shoujun Xu and T. Randall Lee
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(23), 11301; https://doi.org/10.3390/app112311301
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/23/11301

6. “Hybrid Metal/Polymer Filaments for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) to Print Metal Parts”
by Claudio Tosto, Jacopo Tirillò, Fabrizio Sarasini and Gianluca Cicala
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(4), 1444; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041444
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1444

7. “Biogenic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterisation and Applications”
by Bilal Mughal, Syed Zohaib Javaid Zaidi, Xunli Zhang and Sammer Ul Hassan
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(6), 2598; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11062598
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/6/2598

8. “Polyphenols: A Promising Avenue in Therapeutic Solutions for Wound Care”
by Inês Guimarães, Sara Baptista-Silva, Manuela Pintado and Ana L. Oliveira
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(3), 1230; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11031230
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/3/1230

9. “Fundamentals of Building Deconstruction as a Circular Economy Strategy for the Reuse of Construction Materials”
by Gaetano Bertino, Johannes Kisser, Julia Zeilinger, Guenter Langergraber, Tatjana Fischer and Doris Österreicher
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(3), 939; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11030939
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/3/939

10. “Non-Destructive Testing Applications for Steel Bridges”
by Seyed Saman Khedmatgozar Dolati, Nerma Caluk, Armin Mehrabi and Seyed Sasan Khedmatgozar Dolati
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(20), 9757; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11209757
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/20/9757

11. “The DEMO Water-Cooled Lead–Lithium Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the End of the Pre-Conceptual Design Phase”
by Pietro Arena, Alessandro Del Nevo, Fabio Moro, Simone Noce, Rocco Mozzillo, Vito Imbriani, Fabio Giannetti, Francesco Edemetti, Antonio Froio, Laura Savoldi et al.
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(24), 11592; https://doi.org/10.3390/app112411592
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/24/11592

12. “Enhancement of Antimicrobial Activity of Alginate Films with a Low Amount of Carbon Nanofibers (0.1% w/w)”
by Isaías Sanmartín-Santos, Sofía Gandía-Llop, Beatriz Salesa, Miguel Martí, Finn Lillelund Aachmann and Ángel Serrano-Aroca
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(5), 2311; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052311
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/5/2311

13. “The Behavior of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Elements: A New Stress-Strain Model Using an Evolutionary Approach”
by Ali A. Abdulhameed, Alaa Hussein Al-Zuhairi, Salah R. Al Zaidee, Ammar N. Hanoon, Ahmed W. Al Zand, Mahir M. Hason and Haider A. Abdulhameed
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(4), 2245; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12042245
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/2245

14. “Effects of Adding Alkali Metals and Organic Cations to Cu-Based Perovskite Solar Cells”
by Riku Okumura, Takeo Oku, Atsushi Suzuki, Masanobu Okita, Sakiko Fukunishi, Tomoharu Tachikawa and Tomoya Hasegawa
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1710; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031710
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/1710

15. “Geometry and Distortion Prediction of Multiple Layers for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing with Artificial Neural Networks”
by Christian Wacker, Markus Köhler, Martin David, Franziska Aschersleben, Felix Gabriel, Jonas Hensel, Klaus Dilger and Klaus Dröder
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(10), 4694; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11104694
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/10/4694

16. “Buckling Analysis of CNTRC Curved Sandwich Nanobeams in Thermal Environment”
by Ahmed Amine Daikh, Mohammed Sid Ahmed Houari, Behrouz Karami, Mohamed A. Eltaher, Rossana Dimitri and Francesco Tornabene
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(7), 3250; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11073250
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/7/3250

17. “Effect of Printing Layer Thickness on the Trueness and Margin Quality of 3D-Printed Interim Dental Crowns”
by Gülce Çakmak, Alfonso Rodriguez Cuellar, Mustafa Borga Donmez, Martin Schimmel, Samir Abou-Ayash, Wei-En Lu and Burak Yilmaz
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(19), 9246; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199246
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/19/9246

18. “Nanoparticles—Plant Interaction: What We Know, Where We Are?”
by Ewa Kurczyńska, Kamila Godel-Jędrychowska, Katarzyna Sala and Anna Milewska-Hendel
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(12), 5473; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11125473
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/12/5473

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