These awards target to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current research in the field of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies show a high level of excellence and distinction.
The Winners of the NN18 Young Researcher Awards (1 oral and 1 poster presentation) will benefit with a 300 EUR cash prize accompanied with a certificate!

An extra Poster Certificate is provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry journals Analyst, Lab on a Chip, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, Nanoscale, and Nanoscale Horizons. A year’s subscription to the journal of the winner’s choice from those mentioned will be awarded.

This year's NN18 YRA are the following (alphabetical order):

K. Lempicka
University of Warsaw, Poland

for her oral presentation:
Magneto-optical activity in self-assembly thin films of organic materials
K. Łempicka^1,2, M. Król¹, A. Leniart², M. Solarski¹, B. Piętka¹, P.W. Majewski², J. Szczytko^1
1Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
²Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

and

A. Ntolia
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

for her poster presentation:
A comparative study in sterilization of silver nanoparticles
A. Ntolia, A. Aggeli
School of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Laboratory of unit operations & applied thermodynamics