The award is for a paper entitled "The Potential and Challenges of Nd(FeM)12N Compounds with ThMn12 Structure for Permanent Magnet Materials" by Yusuke Hirayama, Takashi Miyake and Kazuhiro Hono, doi:10.2320/materia.55.97, Materia Japan 55 (2016).
The award ceremony was held at JIM 2018 Autumn Annual Meeting held at Sendai.