The 4th International Online Conference on Materials
The 4th International Online Conference on Materials
Part of the International Online Conference on Materials series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
10 September 2025
10 October 2025
31 October 2025
Biomaterials, Materials Theory, Nanomaterials
Abstract Submission is Closed
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Welcome from the Chair
• Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Quantum Materials;
• Soft Matter, Biomaterials, Composites and Interfaces;
• Materials Theory, Simulations and AI;
• Materials for Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Storage;
• Green Materials, Synthesis, Characterization and Recycling;
• Materials Manufacturing, Processing and Applications.
Dr. Ingo Dierking
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Program Overview
IOCM 2025 Program - Day 1
IOCM 2025 Day 1
Session 3. Soft Matter, Biomaterials, Composites and Interfaces
Date: 3 November 2025 (Monday)
Time: 9:30 (CET, Basel) | 03:30 (EST, New York) | 16:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 1. Optical, Electric and Magnetic Materials and Their Characterization
Date: 3 November 2025 (Monday)
Time: 15:00 (CET, Basel) | 09:00 (EST, New York) | 22:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
IOCM 2025 Program - Day 2
IOCM 2025 Day 2
Session 5. Materials for Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Storage
Date: 4 November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 2. Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Quantum Materials
Date: 4 November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:30 (CET, Basel) | 08:30 (EST, New York) | 21:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)
IOCM 2025 Program - Day 3
IOCM 2025 Day 3
Session 4. Materials Theory, Simulations and AI
Date: 5 November 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Session 4. Materials Theory, Simulations and AI
Date: 5 November 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Event Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
Dr. Ingo Dierking received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Clausthal in Germany. After a postdoc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, he joined Chalmers University in Sweden where he was appointed docent, before joining the University of Darmstadt as lecturer and the University of Manchester in 2002 as senior lecturer. He has published more than 170 scientific papers, as well as several books on Soft Matter topics, and is the 2009 awardee of the Hilsum medal, the 2016 recipient of the Samsung Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence, the 2021 recipient of the G.W. Gray Medal, and the 2024 recipient of the Luckhurst-Samulski Prize. Dierking is the Past President of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) and the former Chair of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS). His research interests lie in the field of soft matter physics with an emphasis on liquid crystals and liquid crystal-based composites with polymers and nanomaterials.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Weili Zhang
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
Prof. Dr. Xinyu Liu
Department Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Dr. Pietro Mazzuca
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
Dr. Ingo Dierking
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Dr. Qingchun Yuan
Aston Institute of Materials Research, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Dr. Dimosthenis Stamopoulos
Department of Physics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Dr. Geo Paul
Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Prof. Dr. Federico Bella
Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Prof. Dr. Vlassios Likodimos
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Salonitis
Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre, School of Aerospace Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
Dr. Sara García-Ballesteros
Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Prof. Dr. Abdollah Saboori
Integrated Additive Manufacturing Center, Department of Management and Production engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Malekan
Centre for Industrial Mechanics, Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Event Committee
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Malta, Marsaxlokk, Malta
Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Department of Lignin Chemistry, Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Riga, Latvia
School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences (DiSTA) eCampus University, Novedrate, Italy
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA
Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design, Institute of Material Science of Textiles and Polymer Composites, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
Omnics Research Group, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Salento, CNR-Institute of Nanotechnology, INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Institute of Material Engineering, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi, India
Department of Architectural Engineering, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Republic of Korea
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
1. CERIS—Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Department of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland,
Interdisciplinary Center for Circular Economy, Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland
School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA
Department of Chimica e Fisica “E. Segrè”, Università Degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
Department of Chemical Organic Technology and Polymeric Materials, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA
Instituto de Carboquímica, CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
HyLab - Green Hydrogen Collaborative Laboratory, Sines, Portugal
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens , Greece
School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Telford, UK
School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
ICMATE-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences, Padova University, Padova, Italy
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Faculty of Physics, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISM-CNR, Rome, Italy
Department of Nanomechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
LRGP, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Department for Sustainability, Division of Sustainable Materials, Laboratory Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications, Brindisi Research Center, Brindisi, Italy
Department of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Keynote Speakers
UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA,
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Dr. Li Yang is a research associate professor in the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute and Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), USA. She holds a master’s degree in atomic and molecular physics from Sichuan University (SCU) and a PhD degree in condensed matter physics from University of Electronic Science & Technology of China (UESTC). Her research focuses on multiscale modeling of defects/impurities in materials and their impact on properties. She has more than 20 years of research experience at SCU, UESTC, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and UTK. To date, Dr. Yang has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in Nature Communications, Nuclear Fusion, Acta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, Nanoscale, and others.
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
Dr. Thomas Stergiopoulos (Chemist) conducted his pHD thesis in the field of dye-solar cells at the National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSRD), while being a visiting researcher for one year at the CNRS-University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). At 2014, he moved to the University of Oxford to work on perovskite solar cells with Prof. Henry Snaith, FRS under a Marie Curie IEF fellowship grant and he then became a Long-term Visiting Researcher for the following 5 years. In 2015, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a Senior Lecturer (until 2017) and then as an Assistant Professor until February 2022. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in NCSRD with his own group working on polycrystalline and nanocrystalline, perovskite and chalcogenide solar cells and LEDs. T. S. is currently implementing an ERC Consolidator Grant (MIX2FIX) on hybrid chalcogenide optoelectronics.
Low Energy and Novel Casting Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre, The School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford, UK
Dr K. Georgarakis is a the Course Director of Aerospace Manufacturing MSc Course and a Reader in Low Energy and Novel Casting at the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Center (SMSC). Bofore joining Cranfield in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan and a visiting scientist at the Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering form the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and an Engineering degree in Metallurgy and from the same University. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a chartered Metallurgical Engineer. Dr Georgarakis has extensive experience in rapid solidification and casting, bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and nanostructured materials. He has participated in numerous research projects as a principal-investigator or co-investigator, related to the synthesis, structure and properties of advanced non-equilibrium materials, funded by EU and Japanese research agencies. He has authored more than 65 original full articles in ISI journals and conference proceedings, numerous technical reports for industrial partners and he holds three international patents. He often serves as invited speaker at international conferences and research institutes and he has co-organized several scientific conferences and workshops. He serves as a member of the editorial board and as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and national funding agencies in Europe. He received a number of awards and distinctions including the 2010 Young Scientist Award of the International Symposium for Metastable Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials.
Department of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Dr. Mohamad Azuwa Mohamed is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and a researcher in renewable energy and environmental catalysis. He earned his Ph.D. in Hydrogen Energy from UKM, along with multiple top academic honors, including the Doctorate Golden Award and the Tan Sri Datuk Ong Kee Hui Medal. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2019 (Elsevier BV and Stanford University), Dr. Mohamed has received numerous national and international accolades, including the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Fellowship, the UKM Bitara Award, and the Malaysia Young Scientist Award 2023. His pioneering research focuses on cost-effective bio-inspired semiconductor photo(electro)catalysts for sustainable energy and environmental solutions.
Department of Science and Technological Innovation, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Maurizio Cossi obtained the degree in Theoretical Chemistry in 1991 at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), where he concluded also his PhD in 1995. Since 1995 to 2001 he has been Researcher in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Naples "Federico II", since 2001 to 2006 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry in the same Department. Since 2006, October he is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Advanced Sciences and Technologies (DISTA) of the Università del Piemonte Orientale. His main research interests involve the development of theoretical models and computational algorithms for the quantum mechanical calculation of molecular properties, with a particular focus on solute-solvent interactions and on molecular layers adsorbed on conductor and semiconductor surfaces.
Department of Management and Production Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Since 2021, Eleonora Atzeni is a Full Professor in the "Technologies and Manufacturing Systems" sector at the Politecnico di Torino - Department of Management and Production Engineering. Previously, from 2005 to 2016, she was a Researcher, and from 2017 to 2020 she was an Associate Professor at the same Department of the Politecnico di Torino. She is a member of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMTech) research group at the Interdepartmental Integrated Additive Manufacturing Center at the Politecnico di Torino (IAM@PoliTo). The main research topics are those relating to Additive Manufacturing technologies and the modeling of production processes. In parallel, she developed other activities on the mechanical and technological characterization of materials, both traditional and innovative, and the study of the correlations between the process parameters and the microscopic and macroscopic characteristics of the manufactured components. In the field of the above-described studies and researches, she has participated in and spoken at numerous congresses and study meetings. She is the author of more than 80 scientific publications, and she is a reviewer for several international journals.
Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Khachatur Manukyan is an Associate Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, where he leads interdisciplinary research on materials at the Nuclear Science Laboratory. His work spans nuclear materials and irradiation studies, ultrafast synthesis of advanced materials, energy-efficient recycling of lithium-ion battery materials, and the scientific analysis of cultural heritage objects. He has authored numerous publications and a textbook, and is dedicated to mentoring students while building national and international collaborations that connect fundamental discovery with societal impact.
1. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia,
2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Liquid Crystals as the Laboratory Playground of Physics
Samo Kralj was awarded PhD in physics from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1991. He carried out postdoctoral education at School of Mathematics, University of Southampton (UK, 1992) and at Solid State Department, Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, 1993-1996). Currently, he is full professor at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at University of Maribor in Slovenia, where he is the head of the laboratory Physics of Complex Systems, vice-head of the Department of Physics, and head of the PhD study in Physics. He is also employed as Senior researcher at Solid State Department, Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. His research interests include soft materials, biophysics and nanomaterials. On these topics he has so far published about 150 papers in international journals which acquired about 3000 citations. Among others he was General chair of the 11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals (2011, Maribor, Slovenia) and General chair chair of the ESF Exploratory Workshop “Defect assembled soft matter for nanoscience and nanotechnology” (2013, Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia). He is very active as a science promotor for which he obtained “Prometej of Science” reward from the Slovenian Science Foundation (2009) and “Golden Reward” from the Society for Technical Culture of Slovenia (2015). He was rewarded for outstanding educational achievements and constantly highest marks in students’ assessments from Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (University of Maribor, 2015) and exposed as a distinguished referee of the European Physical Journal (2015 and 2016). He is also piano player in PhD Big Bang Band at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at University of Maribor and active as cartoonist.
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA
Recent Development of Functional Metasurfaces at LANL
Dr. Chang received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in Materials Science. He was formerly a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and afterwards an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University. Dr. Chang is currently a staff scientist in CINT Nanophotonics and Optical Nanomaterials (NPON) thrust and Laboratory for Ultrafast Materials and Optical Science (LUMOS) at LANL. His research interests include metamaterials, plasmonics, terahertz science and technology, semiconductor optoelectronics, and light-matter interactions in low-dimensional and emergent materials.
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Metamaterial designs based on universality of phenomena in liquid crystals: from cosmic strings to optical engineering
Ivan I. Smalyukh is a tenured professor at the Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, which he joined in 2007 (promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014 and from Associate to Full Professor in 2017). He is also the Founding Director of the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter, as well as the founding fellow of Renewable Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and NREL. He is an elected fellow of APS, AAAS, Optica and SPIE. He received many awards, including the Bessel and Glenn Brown Awards, Gray Medal, NASA iTech award and Mid-Career Award of the International Liquid Crystal Society, the PECASE Award from the Office of Science and Technology of the White House and the GSoft Award from the American Physical Society.
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Microstructural engineering of metals in laser powder bed fusion
Tianbo Yu is a senior researcher in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) and a PhD degree in Materials Science from Risø DTU (Denmark). His research focuses on the microstructure of metallic materials, including experimental characterization by electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray techniques, understanding the mechanisms of microstructure evolution during manufacturing and application, and establishing the microstructure–mechanical property relation. At present, his main focus is on microstructural engineering of additively manufactured (AM) metals.
Sessions
S2. Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Quantum Materials
S3. Soft Matter, Biomaterials, Composites and Interfaces
S4. Materials Theory, Simulations and AI
S5. Materials for Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Storage
S6. Green Materials, Synthesis, Characterization and Recycling
S7. Materials Manufacturing, Processing and Applications
Registration
The registration for IOCM 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 31 October 2025.
Instructions for Authors
Important Deadline
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 1̶5̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶u̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶5̶ 10 September 2025
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
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. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- 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.
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at iocm2025@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
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
1. Materials Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Materials (ISSN 1996-1944, Impact Factor 3.2), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. 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.
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.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 4th International Online Conference on Materials in 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 IOCM 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: 31 December 2025.
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.
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to Materials Proceedings.
Materials Proceedings Microsoft Word template.dot
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 4 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be 4 winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each, along with an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in Materials.
Sponsors and Partners
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Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Adelina Platon
Mr. Ionut Spatar
Mr. Russell Wang
Email: iocm2025@mdpi.com
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