Nominations for the Vanadium Award are judged by an international panel appointed by Vanitec.

2024
Evolution of the mictostructure and mechanical properties of a V-containing microalloyed steel during coiling
Chen Gu, Colin Scott, Fateh Fazeli, Michael J Gaudet, Jing Su, Xiang Wang, Nabil Bassim & Hatem Zurob

2022
Assessing the Role of Vanadium Technologies in Decarbonising Hard-to-abate Sectors and Enabling the Energy ransition
David A Santos, Manish K Dixit, Pranav Pradeep Kumar, Sarbajit Banerjee

2021
Improvement of Strength–Ductility Balance by the Simultaneous Increase in Ferrite and Martensite Strength in Dual-Phase Steels
Elango Chandiran, Naoya Kamikawa, Yu Sato, Goro Miyamoto, and Tadashi Furuhara

2020
Influences of Vanadium and Silicon on Case Hardness and Residual Stress of Nitrided Medium Carbon Steels
J. Klemm-Toole, M. Burnett, A. J. Clarke, J. G. Speer, & K. O. Findley

2019
Interaction of precipitation with austenite-to-ferrite phase transformation in vanadium micro-alloyed steels
Chrysoula Ioannidou, Zaloa Arechabaleta, Alfonso Navarro-López, Arjan Rijkenberg, Robert M Dalgliesh, Sebastian Kölling, Vitality Bliznuk, Catherine Pappas, Jilt Sietsma, A A van Well & S Erik Offerman

2018
Influence of vanadium on the hydrogen embrittlement of aluminized ultrahigh strength press hardening steel
L Cho, E J Seo, D H Sulistiyo, K R Jo, S W Kim, J K Oh, Y R Cho & B C De Cooman

2017
Structure-properties relationship of ultra-fine grained V-microalloyed dual phase steels
C P Scott, F Fazeli, B S Amirkhiz, I Pushkareva & S Y P Allain

2016
Vanadium microalloying for ultra-high strength steel sheet treated by hot-dip metallising
B. Hutchinson, D. Martin, O. Karlsson, F. Lindberg, H. Thoors, R. K. W. Marceau & A. S. Taylor

2015
Stress-strain behaviour of ferrite and bainite with nano-precipitation in low carbon steels
Naoya Kamaikawa, Kensuke Sato, Goro Miyamoto, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Nobuaki Sekido, Kaneaki Tsuzaki & Tadashi Furuhara

2014
Impact of Vanadium Addition on API X100 Steel
Shahrooz Nafisi, Muhammad Arafin, Robert Glodowski, Laurie Collins & Jerzy Szpunar

2013
Effect of vanadium addition on the creep resistance of 18Cr9Ni3CuNbN austenitic stainless heat resistant steel
Dae-Bum Park, Moo-Young Huh, Woo-Sang Jung, Jin-Yoo Suh, Jae-Hyeok Shim, Seung-Cheol Lee

2012
Developing Bearing Steels Combining Hydrogen Resistance and Improved Hardness
Dr Blanka Angelika Szost, Dr P E J Rivera-Diaz-Del-Castillo & Erik H Vegter

2011
Influence of V and Ti  on hot ductility of Nb containing steels of peritectic C contents
Barrie Mintz, Kevin Banks & Alison Tuling

2010
Vanadium Additions in New Ultra High Strength and Ductility Steels
Scott Colin & Cugy Philippe

2009
Processes, microstructure and properties of vanadium microalloyed steels
Prof. T Neville Baker

2008
Influence of V Precipitates on Acicular Ferrite Transformation
Dr Carlos Garcia-Mateo, Dr Francisca Garcia Caballero, Dr Carlos Garcia de Andres &Juan Cornide Arce, Carlos Capdevila Montes

2007
Effects of Molybdenum and Vanadium Addition on Tensile and Charpy Impact Properties of AP1 X70 Linepipe Steels
Young-Min Kim, Sang Yong Shin, Hackeol Lee, Byoungchul Hwang, Sunghak Lee & Nack J. Kim

2006
X H Wang, M Zhang, Z D Zou & S Y Qu

2005
Kinetics of vanadium carbonitride percipitation in steel: A Computer model
P Maugis & M Gouné

2004
Nucleation of Proeutectoid Ferrite on Complex Precipitates in Austenite
T Furuhara (Kyoto University), J Yamaguchi (Formerly Kyoto University, now Nippon Steel Corp), N Sugita (Formerly Kyoto University, now Hitachi Ltd), G Miyamoto (Formerly Kyoto University) & T Maki (Kyoto University)

2003
Hydrogen Trapping Behaviour in Vanadium-added Steel
H Asahi, D Hirakami & S Yamasaki

2002
Formation of acicular ferrite and influence of vanadium alloying
Professor K He & Professor D V Edmonds