2024 Annual Awards of the Journal of Materials Informatics
We are pleased to announce the 2024 Annual Awards of Journal of Materials Informatics, recognizing the outstanding contributions of Editorial Board members, Junior Editorial Board members, reviewers, and author teams to the journal’s development over the past year. The awards include the Outstanding Contribution Award (Tables 1-3), Outstanding Reviewer Award (Table 4), and Best Paper Award (Table 5). Congratulations to the following awardees!
Table 1. Outstanding Contribution Award for Editorial Board Members
| Name | Institution |
| Xingjun Liu | Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) |
| Hao Li | Tohoku University |
| Xiangdong Ding | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| Ming Hu | University of South Carolina |
Table 2. Outstanding Contribution Award for Junior Editorial Board Members
| Name | Institution |
| William Yi Wang | Northwestern Polytechnical University |
| Xiaoyu Chong | Kunming University of Science and Technology |
| Baisheng Sa | Fuzhou University |
| Wei Liu | Zhejiang A&F University |
| Jianqiao Liu | Dalian Maritime University |
Table 3. Outstanding Contribution Award for Academic Assistant Editor
| Name | Institution |
| Xue Jia | Tohoku University |
Table 4. Outstanding Reviewer Award
| Name | Institution |
| Guihua Liu | Hebei University of Technology |
| Zijian Hong | Zhejiang University |
| Chongze Hu | University of Alabama |
| M. Z. Naser | Clemson University |
| Sheng Huang | China University of Mining and Technology |
| Haiyou Huang | University of Science and Technology Beijing |
| Wesley F. Reinhart | Penn State University |
| Muralimohan Cheepu | Pukyong National University |
| Shuaihang Pan | University of Utah |
| Liquan Wang | East China University of Science and Technology |
Table 5. Best Paper Award
| Paper | Authors |
| 1. Domain knowledge-guided interpretive machine learning: formula discovery for the oxidation behavior of ferritic-martensitic steels in supercritical water J. Mater. Inf. 2022, 2, 4. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.04 | Bin Cao, Shuang Yang, Ankang Sun, Ziqiang Dong*, Tong-Yi Zhang* |
| 2. Regulating the electrocatalytic performance for nitrogen reduction reaction by tuning the N contents in Fe3@NxC20-x (x = 0∼4): a DFT exploration J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 24. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2023.32 | Bing Han, Fengyu Li* |
| 3. A review on high-throughput development of high-entropy alloys by combinatorial methods J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 4. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.41 | Shahryar Mooraj, Wen Chen* |
| 4. Recent advances and applications of machine learning in electrocatalysis J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 18. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2023.23 | You Hu, Junhua Chen, Zheng Wei, Qiu He*, Yan Zhao* |
| 5. Accelerated development of hard high-entropy alloys with data-driven high-throughput experiments J. Mater. Inf. 2022, 2, 3. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.03 | Yi Liu*, Jiong Wang, Bin Xiao, Jintao Shu |
| 6. Virtual sample generation in machine learning assisted materials design and discovery J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 16. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2023.18 | Pengcheng Xu, Xiaobo Ji, Minjie Li*, Wencong Lu* |
| 7. Process parameter optimization of metal additive manufacturing: a review and outlook J. Mater. Inf. 2022, 2, 16. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.18 | Hou Yi Chia, Jianzhao Wu, Xinzhi Wang, Wentao Yan* |
| 8. Recent progress in the data-driven discovery of novel photovoltaic materials J. Mater. Inf. 2022, 2, 7. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.07 | Tian Lu, Minjie Li*, Wencong Lu*, Tong-Yi Zhang* |
| 9. Structure-property modeling scheme based on optimized microstructural information by two-point statistics and principal component analysis J. Mater. Inf. 2022, 2, 5. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2022.05 | Xiaobing Hu, Jiajun Zhao, Yiming Chen, Yujian Wang, Junjie Li, Qingfeng Wu, Zhijun Wang, Jincheng Wang |
| 10. Mapping pareto fronts for efficient multi-objective materials discovery J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 11. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2023.02 | Andre K.Y. Low, Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin, Yee-Fun Lim, Kedar Hippalgaonkar* |
| 11. Investigation of dual atom doped single-layer MoS2 for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide by first-principle calculations and machine-learning J. Mater. Inf. 2023, 3, 25. https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/jmi.2023.29 | Huidong Li, Chaofang Deng, Fuhua Li, Mengbo Ma, Qing Tang* |
Congratulations to all awardees for their exceptional work. Their research and innovations have been pivotal to the journal’s growth and success. We sincerely appreciate their ongoing support and look forward to continued collaboration in the future.
Editor: Mengyu Yang
Language Editor: Emma Chen
Production Editor: Ting Xu
Respectfully Submitted by the Editorial Office of Journal of Materials Informatics
