It is with great pleasure that the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology (JTST) announces the winners of the JTST Volume 22 Best Papers Awards, as chosen by an international committee of expert judges. The awards were presented at the International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition 2014, in Barcelona, Spain.

This year the voting resulted in a tie between the two papers, “Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings: New Materials, Processing Issues, and Solutions” by Georg Mauer, Maria Ophelia Jarligo, Daniel E. Mack, and Robert Vaßen, and “Colour Matching in Decorative Thermally Sprayed Glass Coatings” by Thierry Poirier, Pierre Bertrand, and Christian Coddet.

The Editorial Committee believes it is important to evaluate the quality of engineering and scientific contributions published in JTST and to provide recognition of excellent work and its publication. Each paper is reviewed and evaluated on its merits for scientific and engineering content, originality, and presentation style. The previous papers are recognized as outstanding and the authors received awards of recognition for their excellent publications.

The international committee of judges led by Dr. Roland Seals, Chair of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology Best Paper Subcommittee, is as follows: David Bucci, Andrew Gouldstone, Jose Maria Guilemany, Jan Ilavsky, Keehyun Kim, Timothy McKechnie, Shiladitya Paul, James Ruud, Richard Schmid, Igor Sevostianov, Atin Sharma, Philip Shipway, Yoshiki Tsunekawa, Erja Turunen, Anirudha Vaidya, and Petri Vuoristo.

Congratulations are extended to the winning authors from the JTST Editorial Board and the ASM Thermal Spray Society Executive Board of Directors.

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Journal of Thermal Spray Technology Editor-in-Chief Christian Moreau (right) presents the JTST Volume 22 Best Paper Award to (from left) Georg Mauer and Robert Vaßen, who also accepted on behalf of their co-authors Maria Ophelia Jarligo and Daniel E. Mack (not pictured) for their paper “Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings: New Materials, Processing Issues, and Solutions.”

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Accepting the JTST Volume 22 Best Paper Award for “Colour Matching in Decorative Thermally Sprayed Glass Coatings” is Christian Coddet (left), who also accepted on behalf of his co-authors Thierry Poirier and Pierre Bertrand (not pictured). The award was presented by Journal of Thermal Spray Technology Editor-in-Chief Christian Moreau.