Cancellation 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers

Dear Colleagues,

Due to a limited number of high quality submissions to the 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers, we have unfortunately had to cancel this e-conference. However, we still want to offer contributing authors the chance to present their work. As such, we invite you to submit a paper to the polymers section of the e-conference on Materials (ECM). Please visit the section page at:
https://sciforum.net/conference/ecm-1/ecm-d.

We hope to organize an e-conference dedicated solely to Polymers at a later date. The Organizing Committee wants to thank you very much for your interest and support and would be delighted if you joined the conference and discussions on polymers at the ECM from 26 May to 10 June 2014 (https://sciforum.net/conference/ecm-1/).

Kind regards,
The Organizing Committee of ECP

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Welcome from the Chair of 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers

I am pleased to announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers, which will be held on this special platform developed by MDPI.

The conference will cover the following main topics, which will be chaired by well-known experts from the field:

• New Developments in Polymerization Techniques
• Complex Macromolecular Architectures
• Water-Soluble Polymers
• Enzymes in Monomer and Polymer Synthesis, Polymers from Biomass
• Bioconjugates/Biohybrid, Biomimetic Polymers
• Polymer Colloids, Nanogels and Microgels
• Non-Covalently linked Polymers, Supramolecular Interactions
• Blockcopolymer Self-Assembly in thin Films and Bulk
• Polymers Triggered by External Fields (pH, Temp., light, etc.)
• Polymers for Medical Applications
• Multiscale Simulations in Soft Matter

This is the first time that such a conference will be held in our field and some of you may wonder about the usefulness of such an event. From my point of view, I consider this a nice opportunity to discuss upcoming topics in Polymer Science in a relaxed environment.

The platform will give you the opportunity to get in contact with specialists in the field from all over the world without the usual hustle of a big conference everyone knows.

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers is sponsored by MDPI and the open access scientific journal Polymers.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker
Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Polymers (Founding Editor-in-Chief)
Chair of Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces (IPC)
RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
DWI at RWTH Aachen e.V.

Alexander Böker holds the Chair of Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces at RWTH Aachen and is Co-Director of the DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V. He studied chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and received his PhD from Bayreuth University in 2002 working with Prof. G. Krausch and Prof. Axel H.E. Müller. From 2002 – 2004 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Thomas P. Russell at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2006 he received a Lichtenberg-Professorship funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. Besides being Founding Editor-in-Chief of Polymers, Alexander Böker is Member of the Reimund Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering in Beer Sheva, Israel, Member of the International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics (Wiley-VCH) as well as the Editorial Board of Colloid & Polymer Science (Springer) and Polymer (Elsevier).

He published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals which were cited more than 3500 times. The main research interests of his group include guided self-assembly of block copolymer systems, hierarchical (bio)nanoparticle assemblies and the control of self-assembly processes via external fields.

Sessions

Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 16 April 2014.
2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Polymers.
   All authors will be notified by 18 April 2014 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper, until the submission deadline of 16 May 2014.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net/conference/ecp-1/page/call for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 16–30 June 2014.
5. The Open Access Journal Polymers will publish the proceedings of the conference as a Special Issue. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in to this website.

Accepted File Formats
• MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Polymers Microsoft Word template file (see downloading button below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.

Electronic Conference on Polymers Microsoft Word template file

• LaTeX: ensure to send a copy of your manuscript as a PDF file also, if you decided to use LaTeX. When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the MDPI LaTeX template files.

Electronic Conference on Polymers LaTeX template file

• Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
• Formatting / Style: The paper style of the Journal Polymers should be followed. You may download the template file to prepare your paper. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
• Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
• Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.