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 6.4), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. 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.

Authors of accepted abstracts are highly encouraged to submit an extended proceedings paper (ideally 4–8 pages in length) for the conference's dedicated proceedings volume in the Materials Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4605) for free, please submit it after the conference.

Proceedings paper submission deadline: 27 February 2027.

Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Materials Proceedings, and be sure to disclose the conference information in your cover letter or mention the conference name in your submission.
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Publication Notice: Proceedings papers will undergo peer-review procedure. Acceptance at the conference does not ensure final publication.

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.