The Best Contribution Awards are presented to the most accomplished presentations at SizeMat 4.
The committees will evaluate all contributions on their design, clarity of the presentation and scientific content.

Best Contribution Award Committee in Theoretical chemistry

• Prof. Dr. Natasha Trendafilova (IGIC-BAS)
• Dr. Joseph Prentice (University of Oxford)
• Dr. Petar Petrov (Imperial college, London)

Best Contribution Award Committee in Materials for Environmental Protection and Energy Application

• Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Zhecheva, (IGIC-BAS)
• Prof. DSc Hristo Balarew (IGIC-BAS)
• Dr. Petar Petrov (Imperial college, London)
• Prof. Dr. Daniela Kovacheva (IGIC-BAS)
• Assoc. prof. Dr. Dimitar Panayotov (IGIC-BAS)

The Organizing committee announces that 5 winners awarded with certificate and prize money of 40 EUR each. The financial prize is provided by the journal Materials  where the conference papers will be published.

The winners of the Best Contribution Awards in 2023 were:

Ryan Bower (Imperial College, London, UK):
Plasmonic Thin Films and Surfaces: Fabrication and Properties

Maria Gancheva (Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, BAS. Bulgaria):
“Synthesis and Luminescence Properties of BaMoO4 Nanoparticles”

Consolato Rosmini (Institute of organic chemistry with centre of phytochemistry – BAS, Bulgaria):
“Variations in the fragmentation mechanism of the ethylene glycol conversion observed on Sn and/or Ni catalysts in Aqueous Phase Reforming”

Ilia Kichev(University of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Bulgaria):
“Electrode Potential Calculation Accounting for the Dielectric Medium of the Bulk Electrode”

Daniel Price (Imperial College, London,UK):
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