AATCC selects Materials Research Poster contest winners

The three themes/categories of this year’s competition were:

Industrial/Technical/Sports Materials, Medical/Biomedical/Protective Materials and Devices, and Functional/Smart/Nano Materials.

And the winners are:

Industrial/Technical/Sports Materials

• 1^st Place – Noise/Sound Reduction Boards for Student Housing by Courtney Milliner, Joshua Cole, Elizabeth Brannon & Hannah Mangum of North Carolina State University
• 2^nd Place – Comparative Study for a Preventative Turf Toe Cleat by Brittainy Krohn & Ugur Kolunsag of Philadelphia University

Medical/Biomedical/Protective Materials and Devices

• 1^st Place – Anterior Cruciate Ligament Regenerative Device by Cameron Carter, Grace Ridge, Justin Myers & Brittany Knox of North Carolina State University
• 2^nd Place – Water Stable Plant Protein Film from Camelina for Tissue Engineering by Yi Zhao & Qiuran Jiang of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Functional/Smart/Nano Materials

• 1^st Place – Nanowire-Structured Based Hybrid Cell for Harvesting Solar and Mechanical Energies by Chen Xu of Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2^nd Place – Effects of Long-term Chemical Treatment on the Electrical Resistance of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) on Textiles by Christopher DiFranco & Jinlin Cai of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

All winning entries will receive cash awards of $1,000 for First Place and $500 for Second Place in each category. The winners will also receive complimentary student registration(s) for the 2013 AATCC International Conference. To date, AATCC has awarded $17,000 in prizes to winners of the annual Materials Research Poster Competition.

This year the contest received a record number of entries. All were evaluated on concept originality and research quality, clarity, plus results/discussions/conclusions. The entries for 2012 were of such high quality the judges had a difficult task determining the winners.

AATCC gratefully thanks the judges of this year’s competition:

Dr. Radhakrishnaiah Parachuru – Georgia Institute of Technology (PTFE Dept.),

Robina Hogan – United Soybean Board/Hogan Consulting,

Kanti Jasani – Performance & Technical Textile Consulting, and

Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar –Texas Tech University (TIEH Dept.).

AATCC, Association of Textile, Apparel & Materials Professionals, is the world’s leading not-forprofit textile professional association, serving the textile industry since 1921.

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