MRE Best Paper Award
Congratulations to 2022 MRE Best Paper Award Winners!
Matter and Radiation at Extremes released the winners of MRE Best Paper Award in 2022 recently. The award is bestowed to authors of excellent articles published in the journal of Matter and Radiation at Extremes (MRE) in the year of 2022, for appreciating and acknowledging their contributions to MRE, while promoting and encouraging top quality research in the field of matter and radiation under extreme states.
Among ~50 papers published in MRE in the year of 2022, after evaluation and discussion by the committee, it was finally decided to award three articles as the MRE Best Paper Award winners.
Please see the full list below. Congratulations to the winners! (In no particular order)
MRE Best Paper Award Winners
Dream fusion in octahedral spherical hohlraum
Ke Lan; Matter and Radiation at Extremes 1 September 2022; 7 (5): 055701. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0103362
Triggering star formation: Experimental compression of a foam ball induced by Taylor–Sedov blast waves
B. Albertazzi, P. Mabey, Th. Michel, G. Rigon, J. R. Marquès, S. Pikuz, S. Ryazantsev, E. Falize, L. Van Box Som, J. Meinecke, N. Ozaki, G. Gregori, M. Koenig; Matter and Radiation at Extremes 1 May 2022; 7 (3): 036902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0068689
Incompatibility of published ac magnetic susceptibility of a room temperature superconductor with measured raw data
J. E. Hirsch, D. van der Marel; Matter and Radiation at Extremes 1 July 2022; 7 (4): 048401. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088429
Congratulations to 2021 MRE Best Paper Award Winners!
Matter and Radiation at Extremes initiated the MRE Best Paper Award in 2021, which is bestowed to authors of excellent articles published in the journal in the past three years, for appreciating and acknowledging their contributions to MRE, while promoting and encouraging top quality research in the field of matter and radiation under extreme states.
Among 120 papers published in MRE from 2018 to 2020, after evaluation and discussion by the committee, it was finally decided to award three articles as the MRE Best Paper Award winners. We also celebrate the nine excellent articles nominated for the MRE Best Paper Award.
Please see the full list below. Congratulations to the winners! (In no particular order)
MRE Best Paper Award Winners
Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program.
A. Tanaka, K. M. Spohr, D. L. Balabanski, S. Balascuta, L. Capponi, M. O. Cernaianu, M. Cuciuc, A. Cucoanes, I. Dancus, A. Dhal, B. Diaconescu, D. Doria, P. Ghenuche, D. G. Ghita, S. Kisyov, V. Nastasa, J. F. Ong, F. Rotaru, D. Sangwan, P.-A. Söderström, D. Stutman, G. Suliman, O. Tesileanu, L. Tudor, N. Tsoneva, C. A. Ur, D. Ursescu, and N. V. Zamfir
“The review paper from Prof. Tanaka on the status and upcoming commissioning of the Extreme Light Infrastructure in Romania stands out from the majority of articles published in MRE. It provides a detailed overview of one of the most important scientific infrastructures built in the European Union. It describes in a very accessible and at the same time comprehensive way the physics to be studied and the technology which makes it possible. This article won the MRE Best Paper award because it is a perfect introduction for young scientists entering this specific field and a perfect reference for the potential user community which will soon perform unique experiments in this installation.”
- Stefan Weber, Associate Editor of MRE
Joseph Nilsen, Andrea L. Kritcher, Madison E. Martin, Robert E. Tipton, Heather D. Whitley, Damian C. Swift, Tilo Döppner, Benjamin L. Bachmann, Amy E. Lazicki, Natalie B. Kostinski, Brian R. Maddox, Gilbert W. Collins, Siegfried H. Glenzer, and Roger W. Falcone
“Extremely high pressure hugoniots (above 400 Mbar) were previously rarely achieved unless using nuclear explosions. Here it is the first time using NIF that such matter at extreme has been reached opening a new domain of EOS exploration. In this paper radiation issues are discussed both coming from hard x-rays generated on the cavity walls or by the shock itself as its temperature becomes extremely important. This paper won the MRE Best Paper Award because it is one the first showing the convergence to atomic pressures that might revolutionize our understanding of the extreme pressure domain.”
- Michel Koenig, Co Editor-in-Chief of MRE
Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory.
Viktor Struzhkin, Bing Li, Cheng Ji, Xiao-Jia Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Ivan Troyan, Alexander Gavriliuk, and Ho-kwang Mao
“Since the discovery of the first superconductor in 1911, the pursuit and exploration on room-temperature superconductivity have never come to stop. For now, pressurizing metal hydrides appear to be a "shortcut" to this Holy Grail of condensed matter physics. In this review article, Struzhkin et al. summarized the latest results of theoretical and experimental studies on metal hydride high-temperature superconductivities. They also proposed that high-Tc superhydrides may be "doped" with metallic hydrogen based on their own experimental investigations. This review article won the MRE Best Paper award because not only gives us a quick and systematic update on the research of metal hydride high-temperature superconductivity, but also enlightens the debates on the newly emerging hot topics of the field, which would push forward the studies of high-temperature superconductivity.”
- Bin Chen, Guest Editor of MRE
MRE Best Paper Award Nominees
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Lorenz S, Grittani G, Chacon-Golcher E, et al. |
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Chen S N, Negoita F, Spohr K, et al. |
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Linke Jochen, Du Juan, Loewenhoff Thorsten, et al. |
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Wang Guiqiu, Yi He, Li Yujiao, et al. |
Review of stopping power and Coulomb explosion for molecular ion in plasmas. |
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Nikl J, Holec M, Zeman M, et al. |
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Renner O, Rosmej F B. |
Challenges of x-ray spectroscopy in investigations of matter under extreme conditions. |
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Sauppe J P, Palaniyappan S, Loomis E N, et al. |
Using cylindrical implosions to investigate hydrodynamic instabilities in convergent geometry. |
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Hirao N, Kawaguchi S I, Hirose K, et al. |
New developments in high-pressure X-ray diffraction beamline for diamond anvil cell at SPring-8. |
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Mao Ho-kwang, Mao Wendy L. |
2021 MRE Best Paper Award Announcement
About the Award
For appreciating and acknowledging MRE authors’ contributions, while also promoting and encouraging top quality research in the field of matter and radiation under extreme states, MRE would bestow a yearly award - MRE Best Paper Award - to authors of three top papers published in MRE journal in the past three years.
Eligibility
All papers published in MRE from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020 are eligible to compete for MRE Best Paper Award. (Review, perspective, original research, letters all included.)
Selection Criteria
The papers will be selected by editors according to the following criteria:
- Scientific merit and broad impact;
- Originality and innovation;
- Citations and downloads;
Nomination and selection processes
20 articles will be nominated by editors from all eligible papers and the selection committee determines the recipients of the Best Paper Award.
The authors who want to self-nominate their article can submit the nomination to: mreeo@aip.org before 31 August 2021. The nomination package should include:
- A nomination letter signed by the author and co-authors describing the role and contribution of the author in the research;
- A copy of the article in PDF format;
- A supporting statement with no more than 150 words;
The MRE Best Paper Award winner receives:
- An official certificate of MRE Best Paper Award;
- Cash prize of RMB 2,000;
- An invitation to upcoming webinar (one of the winners will be invited to give speech at International Conference on Matter and Radiation at Extremes (ICMRE), a serial conference convened annually since 2016, which brings together scientists from all over the world to exchange ideas and discuss latest achievements in the field).