📃– Winners of the 2024 WITec Paper Awards Announced –🔬
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the WITec Paper Awards for their exceptional publications in the fields of cellular biology, biomineralization, and single-photon emitting materials.
The scientists, based in Great Britain, the Netherlands and South Korea, have been chosen for special recognition from among a very competitive range of submissions. We encourage you to explore their work to see what leading-edge research using Raman microscopy looks like in 2024.
🥇 GOLD: Vernon LaLone, PhD, Aleksandra Aizenshtadt, John Goertz, ..., Steven Ray Wilson, Stefan Krauss Deiml, Molly Stevens (2023) Quantitative chemometric phenotyping of three-dimensional liver organoids by Raman spectral imaging. Cell Reports Methods 3(4): 100440. DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100440
🥈 SILVER: Robin van der Meijden, Deniz Daviran, Luco Rutten, Frank Walboomers, Elena Macías-Sánchez, Nico Sommerdijk, Anat Akiva (2023) A 3D Cell-Free Bone Model Shows Collagen Mineralization is Driven and Controlled by the Matrix. Advanced Functional Materials 33(42): 2212339. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202212339
🥉 BRONZE: Michael Neumann, Xu Wei, Luis Morales-Inostroza, Seunghyun Song, Sung-Gyu Lee, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Stephan Götzinger, Young Hee Lee (2023) Organic Molecules as Origin of Visible-Range Single Photon Emission from Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Mica. ACS Nano 17(12): 11679-11691. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c02348
Press release (EN): https://okt.to/n3fdQj
Pressemitteilung (DE): https://okt.to/9Ce35u
Thank you to everyone who participated in this competition. We’re now accepting submissions for the WITec Paper Award 2025: https://okt.to/2mPTjI
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Image 1: The WITec Paper Award Gold winner Dr. Vernon LaLone (left image). Professor Dame Molly Stevens receives the Award from Oxford Instruments representative Stephen McGurk at the University of Oxford (right image) on behalf of her research group, previously of the Imperial College London, UK.
Image 2: Robin van der Meijden (middle) and his co-authors Prof. Nico Sommerdijk (left) and Dr. Anat Akiva (right) from the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in Nijmegen presenting their Paper Award Silver.
Image 3: The Paper Award Bronze winners received their certificates. Left picture: Dr. Michael Neumann (right) with Oxford Instruments’ Stefan Gomes da Costa; Right picture, from left to right: Prof. Young Hee Lee, shared first author Dr. Xu Wei, group member Debottom Daw and Oxford Instruments representative James Kim at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Republic of Korea.
