Congratulations to Dr Rajani Vijayaraghavan (The poster entitled “Controlled growth of single to few layer graphene films with excellent anticoagulation properties: temperature plays a key role” was authored by Rajani K. Vijayaraghavan, C. Gaman, B. Jose, A. McCoy, P.J. McNally and S. Daniels) and Dr. Muhannad Ahmed Obeidi (The poster entitled “Investigating the Effect of the High Power and High Speed CO2 Laser Surface Melting on The melt-pool size and wear resistance of 316L Stainless Steel” was authored by Muhannad Ahmed Obeidi, Eanna McCarthy, Inam Ul Ahad, Dermot Brabazon) who won the Best Poster award at the 21st International Conference on Advances in Materials & Processing Technologies (AMPT 2018), Dublin, 4-7 Sept.2018.