Best Paper Award

The Fibers Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The Best Paper Award evaluation committee choose two articles of exceptional quality that were published in the Fibers journal during the previous year and announce them as winners online before the end of June.

The Prize:

– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Fibers before the end of June 2025 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Fibers before the end of June 2025 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.

 
Fibers Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Fibers will be eligible for the award, including both regular and Special Issue submissions.

Selection Criteria

The selection criteria for this award are as follows:

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Quality reflected in the number of citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

27 pages, 5506 KiB  
Review
Application of Electrospun Nonwoven Fibers in Air Filters
by Iman Azarian Borojeni, Grzegorz Gajewski and Reza A. Riahi
Fibers 2022, 10(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib10020015 - 8 Feb 2022
22 pages, 13230 KiB  
Article
Multifunctional Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Antibacterial Polylactic Acid (PLA) with Binary Inclusions: The Effect of Cuprous Oxide and Cellulose Nanofibers
by Markos Petousis, Nectarios Vidakis, Nikolaos Mountakis, Vassilis Papadakis, Sotiria Kanellopoulou, Aikaterini Gaganatsiou, Nikolaos Stefanoudakis and John Kechagias
Fibers 2022, 10(6), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib10060052 - 10 Jun 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Martin J D Clift Chairman
Swansea University Medical School
Prof. Dr. David Harper
Prof. Jinlian Hu
City University of Hong Kong

Winner

15 pages, 1089 KiB  
Review
Shielding of Cosmic Radiation by Fibrous Materials
by Tomasz Blachowicz and Andrea Ehrmann
Fibers 2021, 9(10), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib9100060 - 15 Oct 2021
17 pages, 8513 KiB  
Article
Development of a Robot-Based Multi-Directional Dynamic Fiber Winding Process for Additive Manufacturing Using Shotcrete 3D Printing
by Norman Hack, Mohammad Bahar, Christian Hühne, William Lopez, Stefan Gantner, Noor Khader and Tom Rothe
Fibers 2021, 9(6), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib9060039 - 8 Jun 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Martin J D Clift Chairman
Swansea University Medical School

Winner

E. Johan Foster
1. Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland 2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (VTSuN), Macromolecules Innovation Institute

Award Committee

Prof. Martin J D Clift Chairman
Swansea University Medical School
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