Crystals 2017 Best Paper Award

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first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessEditorial Crystals 2017 Best Paper Award by Crystals Editorial Office MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland Crystals 2017, 7(10), 283; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7100283 Received: 17 September 2017 / Revised: 19 September 2017 / Accepted: 19 September 2017 / Published: 21 September 2017 Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Versions Notes Crystals is instituting the Best Paper Award to recognize the outstanding papers published in the journal. We are pleased to announce the “Crystals Best Paper Award” for 2017. Nominations were chosen from all papers published in 2015 and 2016. The selection committee—which consisted of 36 members of the Editorial Board and the Editor in Chief—examined each paper and expressed their preferences, releasing the ranking of the “Crystals Best Paper Award” 2017.Following the review by the Editorial Board, the following top-voted research articles and review papers, in no particular order, have won a “Crystals Best Paper Award” for 2017. 1. Original Research Article AwardYubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Oleg D. Lavrentovich and Qi-Huo WeiDesigns of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid CrystalsCrystals 2017, 7(1), 8, doi:10.3390/cryst7010008.Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/7/1/8.Luca Dal Negro, Ren Wang and Felipe A. PinheiroStructural and Spectral Properties of Deterministic Aperiodic Optical StructuresCrystals 2016, 6(12), 161, doi:10.3390/cryst6120161.Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/6/12/161. 2. Review Paper AwardPaul J. Paukstelis and Nadrian C. Seeman3D DNA Crystals and NanotechnologyCrystals 2016, 6(8), 97, doi:10.3390/cryst6080097.Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/6/8/97.Yuriy Garbovskiy and Iryna GlushchenkoNano-Objects and Ions in Liquid Crystals: Ion Trapping Effect and Related PhenomenaCrystals 2015, 5(4), 501–533, doi:10.3390/cryst5040501.Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/5/4/501.These four outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Crystals. On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board, we would like to congratulate these four teams for their excellent work. In recognition for their accomplishment, Dr. Qi-Huo Wei, Dr. Luca Dal Negro, Dr. Paul J. Paukstelis and Dr. Yuriy Garbovskiy will receive a certificate and the privilege to publish an additional paper free of charge in open access format in Crystals after the usual peer-review procedure.We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Crystals, and thank the Crystals Editorial Board for voting and helping with this “Best Paper Award”.The Editorial Board and Editorial Staff at Crystals is committed to meeting the needs of the scientific community by providing useful and timely reviews of all manuscripts submitted, and providing an open access journal for your results. Please consider submitting your work to Crystals, and we look forward to announcing your paper as a Crystals Best Paper in the future. 3. Prize Awarding CommitteeCrystals Editorial Board. © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Crystals Editorial Office. Crystals 2017 Best Paper Award. Crystals 2017, 7, 283. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7100283 AMA Style Crystals Editorial Office. Crystals 2017 Best Paper Award. Crystals. 2017; 7(10):283. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7100283 Chicago/Turabian Style Crystals Editorial Office. 2017. "Crystals 2017 Best Paper Award" Crystals 7, no. 10: 283. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7100283 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics For more information on the journal statistics, click here. Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.