The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Metals series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
17th January 2025
17th February 2025
28th April 2025
Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Advanced Metallurgy Technology, Structural and Functional Metallic Materials, Material Design, Surface Failure and Protection
Welcome from the Chairs
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Metals, which will be hosted online from 5th to 7th May 2025.
As one of the pillar technologies that support the development of modern society, metallurgy, and Metals play a crucial role in addressing major societal challenges. In recent decades with rapid technological advances, metallic materials have been extended to many emerged technological fields for a wider range of applications, not only used as structural materials but also as functional ones. IECME 2025 will present the state-of-the-art of Metallurgy and Metals related to the following topics:
S1. Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
S6. Additive manufacturing
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
IECME 2025 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.
IECME 2025 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.
The conference committee will review the submitted abstracts. The authors of accepted contributions will have their work displayed in an abstract collection. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted as a full-length paper for publication in Metals.
We hope you will join us, present your work at IECME 2025, and be part of this exciting online event.
Best regards,
Prof. D.Y. Li,
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Prof. Yung C. Shin
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Event Chairs
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. D.Y. Li is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Alberta. His research areas include material design, wear & corrosion, materials physics, and computational materials science. Dr. Li has in excess of 470 scientific publications, including over 430 journal publications. He is an invited contributor for authoritative handbooks (Elsevier, Springer, ASM International), and on the editorial board for 18 international journals. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).
Yung C. Shin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1984, and currently is the Donald A. & Nancy G. Roach Distinguished Professor of Advanced Manufacturing at Purdue University and Director of Center for Laser-based Manufacturing at Purdue University. His research areas include laser processing of materials, advanced manufacturing processes, and intelligent systems. He has published over 430 papers in archived journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is a fellow of SME and ASME. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, a Springer Nature journal, and Advanced Manufacturing, ELS Publishing.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Juan José Suñol Martínez
Department of Physics, Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Girona, 17073 Girona, Spain
Prof. Dr. Suñol Martínez has more than 250 articles in indexed (SCI) journals and more than 350 communications in scientific congress. He is the former President of the Spanish GECAT (Spanish Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Group) from 2015 to 2023. During his career, he was also the Head of the Physics department of the University of Girona between 2007 and 2010 and coordinator of the Materials and Thermodynamics Research group of the University of Girona.
Prof. Dr. Chuang Deng
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada
Dr. Chuang Deng is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He received his B.Sc. in materials physics from Fudan University in 2004, Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Vermont in 2009, and his postdoctoral training from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. His main research interests are towards the processing-structure-property correlation in metallic materials by using multi-scale simulation tools. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field of metallurgy and computational materials science. He has been serving on the editor board for the journal Scientific Reports since 2016.
Prof. Dr. Michael McNallan
Prof. Dr. Michael McNallan, Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Michael McNallan is currently Professor of Materials Science Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned a PhD in Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 focused on chemical and process metallurgy, and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1978 after completing a 1.5 year post‐doctoral appointment at MIT where he worked on high temperature corrosion phenomena. At UIC, he has supervised 31 PhD theses and 34 M.S. theses in Metallurgy or Materials Engineering, with most of the work addressing materials processing or high temperature corrosion in aggressive environments containing halogens or halide vapors. In 1989/1990, he spent a sabbatical year at the Center for Advanced Materials at the Pennsylvania State University, where his work addressed nonoxide ceramics for high temperature heat exchangers. In 1998, he was named a Fellow of ASM International for his work on high temperature corrosion of metals and ceramics. In 2003, his work on formation of nanostructured carbide derived carbon coatings received the R & D 100 award. He holds four U.S. and International patents, and has edited five volumes of technical papers on chemical processing and corrosion of metals and ceramics. In 2006, he took on administrative responsibilities at UIC, becoming the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the College of Engineering at UIC. He continued in that position until 2015, when he returned to his regular faculty position in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering. He gave up full time teaching in 2018, after 40 years at UIC, when he became Professor of Materials Science Emeritus. He continues to have involvement with publications and graduate students in the Materials Science program at UIC.
Prof. Dr. Branimir Grgur
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11020, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Branimir Nikola Grgur, full professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, was born in 1965. He received his Ph.D. in 1999. at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, In 2010, he was elected to the position of full professor in the field of Electrochemistry. During 1996-1998 he worked as a research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, USA, as well as postdoctoral studies in 2000. in the same laboratory. 2018 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He is a member of numerous national and international organizations. He is the associate editor and editorial board member of five national and international journals. Prof. Branimir Grgur lectures the following courses, Undergraduate studies: Electrochemistry, Corrosion, Corrosion and protection, Electrochemical power sources, Basics of electrometallurgy, Biorenewable and electrochemical energy sources. Master's studies: Alternative energy sources. Doctoral studies: Electrocatalysis and Electrode materials, Electrochemical and alternative energy sources, Corrosion and protection. He is the author of more than 180 scientific papers in international and national journals, with more than 6000 citations (H=36), as well as two monographs, three University textbooks, and a large number of lectures (130) at international and domestic conferences. His areas of interest are Corrosion and Protection, Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, and Renewable Energy Sources.
Prof. Dr. Maria Cecilia Poletti
Institute of Materials Science, Joining and Forming, Graz University of Technology, Kopernikusgasse 24-1, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Assoc. Prof. Dr. techn. Maria Cecilia Poletti studied Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue in Argentina. She received her doctorate title in 2005 at the Institute of Materials and Technology, TUWien and carried out post-doctorate work until 2011. In 2011, she got a tenure track position at the Institute of Materials Science, Joining and Forming at the TU Graz, where she now teaches and researches. Poletti got her Habilitation in “Materials Science” in 2012 and has held an Associate Professor position since 2014. She researches the development and processing of high-performance alloys using materials models and simulations supported by experimental evidence and data. Poletti has been the head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for the design of high-performance alloys by thermomechanical processing since May 2017. Her scientific records are listed here https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-920X. Poletti is a member of the German DGM, the Austrian ASMET and the Argentinian SAM Materials societies. Poletti also gave lectures at Universidad Nacional del Comahue (ARG), in Recrystallisation Summer schools (France-CNRS) and the framework of Blended International Lectures (Erasmus+). She is involved in university committees committed to teaching, such as the Senate (deputy head) and the Study Commission of the Advanced Materials Science (head).
Prof. Dr. Abdollah Saboori
Department of Management and Production engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
Abdollah Saboori is an Associate Professor of Advanced Materials Processing at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. His research deals with the correlation between the properties of metallic materials and additive manufacturing processes. In recent years, his scientific activity has focused on alloys and composites produced by metal additive manufacturing processes. Abdollah Saboori was a visiting PhD student at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and he received a PhD with honours in Materials Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on Metal matrix nanocomposites. He is a co-author of more than 110 scientific papers published in scientific journals and conference proceedings and an inventor of a US patent in the field of additive manufacturing.
Prof. Dr. Sake Wang
College of Science, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China
Sake Wang earned his PhD in physics at Southeast University, China, in 2016. During this period, he was awarded the national scholarship for doctoral students. Since 2021, he has been an Associate Professor at Jinling Institute of Technology, China. He was a Visiting Scientist at Tohoku University, Japan, from 2019 to 2021. His current interests focus on theoretical studies of spin and valley transport, as well as valley-optoelectronic devices in two-dimensional materials. He is a PI of the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. He has published 70 papers with more than 3,500 citations, and he published 27 of these papers as the first author or corresponding author. Four of his first-authored and corresponding-authored papers are ESI - Top 1% highly cited papers. He was ranked in the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists 2023 by Stanford University. In addition, he has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (Springer Publishing) since 2020 and as a guest editor of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (IOP Publishing) since 2023, as well as being an outstanding reviewer of three SCI journals.
Prof. Dr. Francesca Borgioli
Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF), Università di Firenze, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Francesca Borgioli is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF) of the Università di Firenze (University of Florence). She was graduated in Physics in 1995 and earned a PhD in Materials Science and Technology at the Università di Firenze in 1999. She has been Associate Professor since 2006, and she has lectured Materials Engineering courses at the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture. She has been board member of the Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Service Centre of the Università di Firenze since 2018. She has been a member of the Italian National Interuniversity Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) since 1998. Her research activity concerns the surface engineering of metallic materials for improving characteristics such as corrosion resistance, tribological properties and biocompatibility. Her studies are mainly focused on low-temperature thermochemical treatments of stainless steels and on the so-called “expanded” phases obtained with these treatments, and she has been the author of 3 reviews on these topics. She has been serving as editorial board member of the journal “Metals” since 2019, and she is editorial board member for the Section “Structural Integrity of Metals.
Prof. Dr. Shusen Wu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Prof. Dr. Shusen Wu, School of materials science and engineering, Huazhong University of science and technology, State Key Lab of material forming and die technology. At present, he is mainly engaged in the preparation of aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy and metal matrix composites, metal solidification theory, metal liquid and semi-solid precision forming, etc. Presided over and participated in projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, national key basic research and development program (973 Program), National 863 program, national CNC and basic manufacturing equipment major projects, and a number of enterprise cooperation projects. The research results are published in Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Materials Science & Engineering A, Journal of Alloys and Composites, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Materials & Design and Journal of Materials Science & Technology, Metals, published more than 350 papers.
Event Committee
Affiliation: Machine Manufacturing Department, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Iași 700050, Romania
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of
Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection & S8. Metallic Materials Processing
WMG, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
S6. Additive manufacturing
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals & S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Instituto de Materiales de Misiones - IMAM (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM)), Posadas-Misiones, Argentina, 3300, Argentina.
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals & S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry & S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Targu Mures 540139, Romania
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu Jagti, Jammu & Kashmir, 181221, India
S6. Additive manufacturing
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
Faculty of Materials Science & Engineering, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, 700050, Iași, Romania.
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi Arabia
S6. Additive manufacturing
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering The British University in Egypt, Cairo 11837, Egypt
S6. Additive manufacturing
Department of Management and Production engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals & S6. Additive manufacturing
Multidisciplinary Center for Infrastructure Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys & S6. Additive manufacturing
Department of Welding, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tafila Technical University, Tafila, Al Ayes, Jordan
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, 32816, FL, United States
S1. Experiment, Computation, AI, and Machine-learning on Metals
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
Department of Physics and Meteorology, School of Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Bauru (17033-360), Brazil
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Institute of Chemical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh 70072, Vietnam
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry & S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Department of Materials Engineering, Federal Institute of Maranhao, Maranhao, Brazil
Session S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - ETSIDI (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Design), Madrid, Spain
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
Laboratoire LP3/UMR 7341 CNRS AMU,Campus de Luminy - Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS, Marseille, France
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry
Invited Speakers
Department of Physics, Badji Mokhtar - Annaba University, Laboratory of Magnetism and Spectroscopy of Solids (LM2S), B.P. 12, Annaba 23000, Algeria
Effect of the sintering conditions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the high entropy alloys
Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'G. Natta', Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Surface Treatments for Implantable Metals: Present and Future
Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Sessions
S2. Metallic Materials Chemistry
S3. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys
S4. Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals
S5. Metallic Functional/ Electronics Materials
S6. Additive manufacturing
S7. Corrosion, Wear, and Protection
S8. Metallic Materials Processing
S9. Metallic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Registration
The registration for IECME 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 28th April 2025.
Instructions for Authors
IECME 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 17th January 2025.
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 17th February 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My Certificates” after the conference.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
- The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
- All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
- You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
- The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted.
Detailed Requirements:
- The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
- Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IECME 2025 in the Materials Proceedings journal, if you wish to publish an extended paper please submit it to the Metals (ISSN 2075-4701) Special Issue (more details about the Special Issue will come soon).
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. The presentation slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
It is the author's 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 "The authors declare no conflicts 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. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Abstract Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IECME 2025 in the Materials Proceedings journal.
Metals Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Metals (ISSN: ISSN 2075-4701, Impact Factor 2.6), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
More details about the Special Issue will come soon.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
The winners will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
Organizers
Co-organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Teodora Sandru
Ms. Hilda Hou
Ms. Teodora Stepanov
Email: iecme2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
