To present your research at the CMDWC2021:
- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window or on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Submit a short abstract in English (200–300 words) until 20 March 2021.
- The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts, and authors will be notified by 14 April 2021 about acceptance.
- All accepted abstracts will be available online for discussion during the time of the conference (17–19 May 2021). Authors will also have the option to include a slide, poster or video presentation to be displayed online along with their abstract. These optional files should be submitted by 3 May 2021.
- After the conference, abstracts and optional files will remain available online for viewing on Sciforum.net and will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Materials Proceedings.
- Participants will also have the opportunity to contribute with a full manuscript to a Special Issue in Corrosion and Materials Degradation for free or to a Special Issue in Materials (Impact Factor 3.057) with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC). Full manuscript submissions will undergo the usual process of each journal, including peer-review.
Abstracts should be prepared in MS Word. Please use the 1st Corrosion and Materials Degradation Web Conference Microsoft Word template file (download below). Do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
After abstract acceptance, if you wish to submit your presentation slides, poster or video, please upload a copy of the short abstract as PDF and Word files, in the corresponding required fields, and upload your file in the corresponding optional field.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint (or similar software) to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides can be prepared in the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Authors could also submit a poster presenting their work. They will be available on the conference website during and after the event. Posters should be presented in PDF format.
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your paper and discussing it with peers from all over the world. The video should be no longer than 10 minutes and less than 250 MB, and be prepared with one of the following formats: mp4; webm; ogg.
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).
- CMDWC2021_Template.docx