The goal of the 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. “Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Operated in Ar and He: From Basic Plasma Properties to Vacuum Ultraviolet, Electric Field and Safety Thresholds Measurements in Plasma Medicine”
by Andrei Vasile Nastuta and Torsten Gerling
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(2), 644; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020644
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/2/644

2. “Wear Resistance Comparison Research of High-Alloy Protective Coatings for Power Industry Prepared by Means of CMT Cladding”
by Paweł Kołodziejczak, Mariusz Bober and Tomasz Chmielewski
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(9), 4568; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12094568
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/9/4568

3. “Effect of Rice Straw on Tensile Properties of Tailings Cemented Paste Backfill”
by Zeyu Li, Xiuzhi Shi and Xin Chen
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(1), 526; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12010526
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/1/526

4. “Ultrasonic Inspection for Welds with Irregular Curvature Geometry Using Flexible Phased Array Probes and Semi-Auto Scanners: A Feasibility Study”
by Seong Jin Lim, Young Lae Kim, Sungjong Cho and Ik Keun Park
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(2), 748; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020748
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/2/748

5. “O-Band Multimode Interference Coupler Power Combiner Using Slot-Waveguide Structures”
by Salman Khateeb, Netanel Katash and Dror Malka
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(13), 6444; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12136444
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/13/6444

6. “Estimation of Cosmic-Ray-Induced Atmospheric Ionization and Radiation at Commercial Aviation Flight Altitudes”
by Panagiota Makrantoni, Anastasia Tezari, Argyris N. Stassinakis, Pavlos Paschalis, Maria Gerontidou, Pantelis Karaiskos, Alexandros G. Georgakilas, Helen Mavromichalaki, Ilya G. Usoskin, Norma Crosby et al.
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 5297; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/11/5297

7. “Characteristics and Applications of Biochar in Soil–Plant Systems: A Short Review of Benefits and Potential Drawbacks”
by Tamás Kocsis, Marianna Ringer and Borbála Biró
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 4051; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12084051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/8/4051

8. “Efficient Decomposition of Unitary Matrices in Quantum Circuit Compilers”
by Anna M. Krol, Aritra Sarkar, Imran Ashraf, Zaid Al-Ars and Koen Bertels
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(2), 759; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020759
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/2/759

9. “Dynamic Characteristics of Unsteady Aerodynamic Pressure on an Enclosed Housing for Sound Emission Alleviation Caused by a Passing High-Speed Train”
by Haiquan Jing, Xiaoyu Ji, Xuhui He, Shifeng Zhang, Jichao Zhou and Haiyu Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1545; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031545
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/1545

10. “In-Target Proton–Boron Nuclear Fusion Using a PW-Class Laser”
by Daniele Margarone, Julien Bonvalet, Lorenzo Giuffrida, Alessio Morace, Vasiliki Kantarelou, Marco Tosca, Didier Raffestin, Philippe Nicolai, Antonino Picciotto, Yuki Abe et al.
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1444; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031444
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/1444

11. “A Review of Optical Neural Networks”
by Danni Zhang and Zhongwei Tan
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 5338; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115338
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/11/5338

12. “Making Sense of Light: The Use of Optical Spectroscopy Techniques in Plant Sciences and Agriculture”
by Ana M. Cavaco, Andrei B. Utkin, Jorge Marques da Silva and Rui Guerra
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 997; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12030997
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/997

13. “An Overview of Terahertz Imaging with Resonant Tunneling Diodes”
by Jue Wang, Mira Naftaly and Edward Wasige
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 3822; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12083822
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/8/3822

14. “Recent Progress of the PAL-XFEL”
by Intae Eom, Sae Hwan Chun, Jae Hyuk Lee, Daewoong Nam, Rory Ma, Jaehyun Park, Sehan Park, Sang Han Park, Haeryong Yang, Inhyuk Nam et al.
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1010; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031010
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/3/1010

15. “High-Efficiency Quantum Dot Lasers as Comb Sources for DWDM Applications”
by Mario Dumont, Songtao Liu, M. J. Kennedy and John Bowers
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(4), 1836; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12041836
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/1836

16. “Orthopedics-Related Applications of Ultrafast Laser and Its Recent Advances”
by Celina L. Li, Carl J. Fisher, Ray Burke and Stefan Andersson-Engels
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 3957; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12083957
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/8/3957

17. “Principle and Implementation of Stokes Vector Polarization Imaging Technology”
by Yong Wang, Yuqing Su, Xiangyu Sun, Xiaorui Hao, Yanping Liu, Xiaolong Zhao, Hongsheng Li, Xiushuo Zhang, Jing Xu, Jingjing Tian et al.
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(13), 6613; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12136613
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/13/6613

18. “THz Time-Domain Ellipsometer for Material Characterization and Paint Quality Control with More Than 5 THz Bandwidth”
by Helge Ketelsen, Rüdiger Mästle, Lars Liebermeister, Robert Kohlhaas and Björn Globisch
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 3744; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12083744
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/8/3744

19. “Polymer Pellet Fabrication for Accurate THz-TDS Measurements”
by Keir N. Murphy, Mira Naftaly, Alison Nordon and Daniel Markl
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(7), 3475; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12073475
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/7/3475

20. “An Explainable Classification Method of SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Images in Nuclear Cardiology Using Deep Learning and Grad-CAM”
by Nikolaos I. Papandrianos, Anna Feleki, Serafeim Moustakidis, Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou, Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos and Dimitris J. Apostolopoulos
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(15), 7592; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12157592
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/15/7592

We would like to thank all of the research groups that authored these exceptional papers for their contribution. We sincerely hope you find these articles of Applied Sciences as useful and insightful as we have found them.