Shape Memory and Superelasticity is pleased to announce the winners of the Volume 11 Best Paper Awards. The awards were chosen by the editorial team of Shape Memory and Superelasticity, and all papers published in Volume 11 were considered.
The 2025 Best Paper winner, published in the June 2025 issue, is "Toward Advancing Elastocaloric Performance in Shape Memory Alloys Through Additive Manufacturing: Novel Conceptual Designs and Preliminary Insights" by Saeedeh Vanaei, Shiva Mohajerani, Pete Rocco, Mahyar Sojoodi, Mohammad Pourshams, and Mohammad Elahinia, University of Toledo.
The 2025 Honorable Mention winner, published in the December 2025 issue, is "Generation of Plastic Strains by the Martensitic Transformations under Stress via Dislocation Slip in Martensite as the Origin of Functional Fatigue" by Petr Šittner, Ludek Heller, Elizaveta Iaparova, Lukáš Kadeřávek, Orsolya Molnárová, and Ondrej Tyc, Institute of Physics of the CAS.
Both of these papers are free access for you to download and read. The Shape Memory and Superelasticity Editorial Advisory Board and the editors of the journal extend their congratulations to the authors for winning this prestigious award!
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Emily Glorioso
ASM Employee
ASM International
Novelty OH
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