Year 2002 Sõmiya Award was presented at the IUMRS-ICEM-2002 Conference in Xian, China

The Year 2002 IUMRS Somiya Award recipients are Dr. Yuri Gogotsi of Drexel University (Philadelphia,. USA) [Top Photo] and Dr. Masahiro Yoshimura of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan). Their collaboration involved research on " Hydrothermal Synthesis of Carbon Coatings and Nanotubes."