The NN25 Young Researchers 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.

Each Winner of the Awards will benefit with a certificate accompanied with one free voucher (2900 Swiss Francs) that can be used for their submissions to Nanomaterials Journal. Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), and many other databases. Nanomaterials ranks Q1 in CiteScore, and Q2 in JCR categories. The average article processing time (from submission to publication) is about 33 days. Its latest Impact Factor is 4.4, and CiteScore is 8.5.

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The NN25 YRA WINNERS are the following (alphabetical order):

Despoina Kordonidou, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

For her presentation:
Synthesis of hybrid hydrogels GelMA/PEDOT:PSS enhanced with magnetic core-shell nanoparticles of Fe¬3O4/mSi/Ca, for tissue regeneration
D. Kordonidou¹, I. Tsamesidis², D. Gilliopoulos³, G. Vourlias^1,4, M. Angelakeris^5,6, X. Chatzistavrou⁷, E. Kontonasaki², P. Patsalas^1
1Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
²Division of Prosthodontics, Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
³Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
⁴Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
⁵Department of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, AUΤh, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
⁶Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI-AUTH), Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
⁷Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Tamara Odutola, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

For her presentation:
Biocompatibility Evaluation of Titanium Nitride Nanoparticles
T. Odutola¹, N. Pliatsikas¹, S. Panos¹, I. Tsamesidis², S. Kassavetis¹, C. Papoulia¹, J. Arvanitidis¹, D. Christofilos³, E. Pavlidou¹, E. Kontonasaki², M. Gioti¹, P. Patsalas^1
1Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece ²School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ³School of Chemical Engineering and Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Maria Trohopoulou, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

For her presentation:
Synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles by laser ablation in water as potential photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy
M. Trohopoulou, N. Pliatsikas, E. Pavlidou, G. Vourlias, S. Panos, T. Odutola, S. Kassavetis, P. Patsalas
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Pooja Verma, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

For her presentation:
Effect of Solution Gating in the Detection of Organophosphate via Meta-Nano-Channel Field Effect Transistor
Pooja Verma^1*, Yuval Ben-Shahar^5*, Shankar Bhattarai², Sherina Harilal³, Gil Feldheim⁵, Alexander Pavzner⁵, Ishay Columbus⁶, Evgeny Pikhay⁴, Inna Shechter⁴, Ayala Elkayam⁴, Muhammad Y. Bashouti^3,6, Barak Akabayov², Avi Weissberg⁷, Izhar Ron^1,5, Yakov Roizin⁴, Gil Shalev^1,8**
1School of Electrical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
²Department of Chemistry and Data Science Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8410501, Beer-Sheva, Israel
³Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 8499000, Israel
⁴Tower Semiconductor, PO Box 619, Migdal Haemek, Israel
⁵Department of Physical Chemistry, Israel Institute for Biological Research, P.O. Box 19, Ness-Ziona 74100, Israel
⁶Department of Analytical Chemistry, Israel Institute for Biological Research, P.O. Box 19, Ness-Ziona 741000, Israel
⁶Department of Organic Chemistry, Israel Institute for Biological Research, P.O. Box 19, Ness-Ziona 741000, Israel
⁸The Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel