Smart Materials in Manufacturing Announces 2025 Best Paper and Outstanding Reviewer Awards
Published 19 December, 2025
Smart Materials in Manufacturing (SMMF) is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Best Paper Award and Outstanding Reviewer Award.
Best Paper Awards 2025：
The following papers have been recognized as Best Papers of 2025:
- Additive manufacturing of high-entropy alloys: Current status and challenges
- Heat sources in wire arc additive manufacturing and their impact on macro–microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties – An overview
- Fabrication and performance assessment of CoCrNi-based medium entropy alloy with silver-coated graphene
- Bioactive and fatigue-resistant Ti–Ta alloy by additive manufacturing for orthopedic applications
We sincerely thank these authors for choosing SMMF as the platform to share their research.
Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2025
The following reviewers are recognized for their Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2025:
- Zhiguang Zhu, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
- Di Mei, Zhengzhou University School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China
- Fengxia Wei, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Gai Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
We deeply appreciate the voluntary contribution of our reviewers. We thank all contributors, particularly the authors who choose SMMF for their research and the reviewers who voluntarily dedicate their time and expertise. We look forward to further collaboration and more high-quality submissions in the coming year.
