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Popular article contest| 2020/2021 Edition

This contest is an initiative of the CERMA Student Committee. It aims to bring together members of different research groups in order to write a scientific article in the field of materials science that is accessible to everyone. This may be a literature review, the summary of a published article or research results.

First price

An overview of wood’s amazing capacities: from macro to nanoscale

Matheus Cabral (director: Pierre Blanchet)
Roberta Dagher (director : Véronic Landry)
Mariana Frias (director: Pierre Blanchet)
Aurélien Hermann (director : Véronic Landry)

Second prize

Plasma: the way to engineer the surface of advanced materials

Williams Caceres-Ferreira (Director: Gaetan Laroche)
Linda Bonilla-Gameros (Director: Diego Mantovani)

Third prize

Utilisation des lignines acrylées pour la protection du bois : le bois au service du bois

Juliette Triquet (Director: Véronic Landry)
Maxime Parot (Director: Tatjana Stevanovic)

Fourth prize

Materials science application in plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells

Soheil Akbari (Director : Seyed Mohammad Taghavi)
Hossein Kazemi (Director : Denis Rodrigue)

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Popular article contest

Writing rules

Content and style

The text must relate to materials science, in any aspect. This may be a literature review, a summary of a scientific article published by the authors or research results from the authors, including unpublished results.

 

The style is free as long as the information is relevant and rigorous.

Format

  • Articles can be written in French or English

  • From 1 to 4 figures can accompany the text (give the original source or inspiration if necessary)

  • The text must be between 1500 and 2000 words, figure legends included and references excluded

  • The text must be written in 12 point Times New Roman with 1.5 line spacing.

  • The title must be followed by the name of the authors with in parentheses the name of their director and co-director of research
    Section headings should be in bold

  • The number of references is limited to 10. Scientific publications should be given priority.

Evaluation criteria

  • Clarity of content and accessibility for a non-expert audience (quality of popularization)

  • Scientific rigor

  • Organization of the article (logic of the discourse and progression of the argument)

  • Language quality

  • Quality of references

  • Originality of the presentation

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