Welcome from the Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

15–29 March 2019

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference (CIWC) that will be hosted online by Sciforum (https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019).

Coatings and interfaces play a crucial role in current technology and have critical importance in addressing major societal challenges. Among them energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, pollution, critical raw materials, corrosion wear and erosion, food safety and health science are of outstanding importance. CIWC will present the state-of-the-art of coatings and of the interface science and technology related to these issues.

CIWC 2019 aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of surfaces, coatings and interfaces. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Coatings and surfaces for corrosion, wear and erosion mitigation;
• Coatings and interfaces for energy applications;
• Biocoating and biomaterial surfaces and interfaces;
• Coating deposition and surface modification technologies;
• Coatings, surfaces and interfaces for food safety and preservation;
• Coatings, surfaces and interfaces for cultural heritage;
• Advances in coatings and surface characterization.

CIWC 2019 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.

CWIC 2019 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question and answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted for publication in Coatings (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings).

CWIC is a new and exciting experience for me that I believe that it is a taste of the future. CWIC will revolutionize dissemination in the field with a brand-new tool for sharing research in an online environment that will preserve the same standards and structure of traditional conferences, but will be more inclusive by breaking the cost and time barriers that prevent participation in remote events. ICTs are shaping our world, let’s make them change the way we communicate science!

We hope you will join us and present your work at CIWC 2019, and be part of this thriving online experience.

Kind regards,

Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
E-mail: lavacchi@mdpi.com
Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

Prof. Dr. Massimo Innocenti
E-mail: minnocenti@unifi.it
Co-Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 10 December 2018.
2. The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 20 December 2018.
3. In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript, along with a presentation and optionally a video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 5 February 2019.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference from 15–29 March 2019.
5. The open access journal Coatings will publish a Special Issue of the conference proceedings papers. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.

Authors that wish to present a poster only, i.e. without proceedings paper, can do so in section F. Posters of this conference. Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.

It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.

MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).