9th Annual AIF Best Paper Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the 2021 winners! 

The AIF holds a contest each year for the best papers written by students. This year, we selected the award recipients from over 200 papers that have resulted through interactions with the facility. A committee consisting of NC State faculty and AIF staff reviewed the papers and determine the winners. These papers highlight the capabilities of AIF and enable us to fulfill our mission of reaching and assisting principal investigators, students, and external users.

Congratulations to Srivatsan Ramesh!

His paper, titled “Dual-Responsive Microgels for Structural Repair and Recovery of Nonwoven Membranes for Liquid Filtration,” was published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials in 2021.


Congratulations to Alex Hsain!

Her paper, titled “Compositional dependence of crystallization temperatures and phase evolution in hafnia-zirconia (HfxZr1−x)O2 thin films,” was published in Applied Physics Letters in 2020.

Click here to see past winners. Click here to see the 2021 Carolina Science Symposium Recap.