The poster entitled "The effect of mechanical strains on the catalytic activity of transition metals for the hydrogen evolution and the oxygen reduction reactions" by Carmen Martínez-Alonso, José Manuel Guevara-Vela and Javier LLorca has been elected by the audience as the best poster presented in

Materials Research Letters is a high impact, open access journal on the engineering and technology of materials, materials physics and chemistry and novel and emergent materials. Javier LLorca has been appointed editor in charge of the papers dealing with mechanics of materials and materials