1. Gels Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue published in Gels (ISSN: 2310-2861, Impact Factor 5.3), 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.

2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 1st International Online Conference on Gels in the Materials Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4605 ) if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.

Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCG 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 19 January 2026.

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
-Title;
-Full author names;
-Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses;
-Abstract;
-Keywords;
-Introduction;
-Methods;
-Results and Discussion;
-Conclusions;
-Acknowledgements;
-References.

If you wish to submit your proceeding paper, please check the Materials Proceedings website.
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