
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0
Part of the 1st International Conference on “Green” Polymer Materials 2020 series
1–15 Nov 2021
Smart Polymer, Additive Manufacturing, Nanotechnologies, Functional Biopolymers, Polymer Recycling, Industry 4.0
- Go to the Sessions
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- A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
- B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
- C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
- D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
- E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
- F. Applications polymers in the Industry 4.0
- G. Polymer recycling
- Event Details
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- Best Paper Awards Winners Announcement
- Best Presentation Awards Winners Announcement
- IOCPS 2021 is Closed Now!
- IOCPS 2021 | Live Session
- IOCPS 2021 | Live Session Recording
- Welcome from the Chairs
- Conference Chairs
- Session Chairs
- Sessions
- Instructions for Authors
- List of Accepted Submissions
- Sponsors and Partners
- Editions in this series
Best Paper Awards Winners Announcement
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 established the Best Paper Awards to acknowledge the support of conference participants and to recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. Nominated candidates are selected by the committees based on the rigor of their science, the significance of their contribution to the field, and the originality of their work. The Best Paper Award winners are as follows:
Title: Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Particles Obtained Using Liposomes as Templates
by Irene Abelenda Núñez, Ramón G. Rubio, Francisco Ortega, Eduardo Guzmán
https://sciforum.net/paper/view/11222
Title: Light-driven Integration of Graphitic Carbon Nitride into Porous Polymer Networks
by Cansu Esen
https://sciforum.net/paper/view/11590
Each winner will receive a cash award of 300 CHF and an award certification. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Best Presentation Awards Winners Announcement
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 established the Best Presentation Awards to acknowledge the support of conference participants and to recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. Nominated candidates are selected by the committees based on the rigor of their science, the significance of their contribution to the field, and the originality of their work. The Best Presentation Awards winners are as follows:
Helena P. Felgueiras
Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia Têxtil (2C2T), Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Stamatina Vouyiouka
Laboratory of Polymer Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou Campus, Athens, Greece
Each winner will receive a cash award of 300 CHF and an award certification.
IOCPS 2021 is Closed Now!
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd International Online Conference on Polymers Science - Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 (IOCPS 2021) has been closed successfully with 33 accepted presentations and one live session.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.
You are also welcome to submit your extended full paper to the conference Special Issue in Polymers, with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges. More details will be released soon.
In addition, we will soon be organizing the publication of the conference proceedings in the journal Materials Proceedings free of charge. You will receive a notification when your paper is uploaded in the submission system. The editor will send the final version to you for proofreading when all the editorial processes are completed. Please kindly help to finish the publishing process if you are happy for your paper to be published in Materials Proceedings.
The Best Presentation Awards and the Best Paper Awards of the conference will be announced within one week, please find more information at the below sections.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Conference Secretariat:
Ms. Cassie Liu
Mr. Chris Chen
Email: [email protected]
IOCPS 2021 | Live Session
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IOCPS 2021 | Live Session. This FREE webinar will be held on 12 November 2021 at 14:00pm CET. The number of participants to the live session is limited but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards.
Please register by clicking the button below. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala |
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Research Keywords |
Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual |
Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Research Keywords |
Prof. Miguel Aldas |
Departamento de Ciencia de Alimentos y Biotecnología, Facultad de Ingeniería Química y Agroindustria, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito - Ecuador Research Keywords |
Program
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual PEEK Composites with Carbon Nanomaterials |
14:00 - 14:30 pm |
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala Hybrid Polymer-based Materials for Additive Manufacturing to Print Metal Parts |
14:30 - 15:00 pm |
Prof. Miguel Aldas Revalorization of Pine Resin Derivatives for the Development of Sustainable Polymeric Materials |
15:00 - 15:30 pm |
IOCPS 2021 | Live Session Recording
Live Session | 12 November 2021, 2:00pm CET
Welcome from the Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Online Conference on Polymers Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 (IOCPS 2021), sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360; IF: 3.426). The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in the field of science of materials science and technology to present their research and exchange ideas with colleagues. This is an electronic conference, removing the need to travel and eliminating participation expenses while still maintaining a rigorous selection of scientific contributions and, at the same time, ensuring the possibility for visibility for your own research.
The conference will be organized around the following general topics, providing a forum for presenting and discussing new results. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
- Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
- Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
- Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
- Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
- Applications Polymers in the Industry 4.0
- Polymer Recycling
This will be a virtual conference held at Sciforum, a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize and provide technical support for electronic conferences, from 1 to 15 November 2021.
A number of free live-streaming sessions will be held during the conference including talks from invited speakers. These live sessions will also contain a Q&A section to answer questions from a live online audience.
Accepted abstracts and accepted conference papers will be published in Materials Proceedings. Please check the section ‘Instructions for Authors’ for a detailed description on how to submit your contribution to the conference.
All conference participants will be encouraged to submit a full manuscript to the Polymers conference Special Issue, with a 20% discount on the article processing charge. Conference Papers submitted to the Special Issue must have been extended at least by 50%, and will undergo the standard peer-review process of the journal.
The best conference paper and presentation will receive an award of 300 CHF, as well as an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Polymers.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala
Prof. Ana María Díez-Pascual
Prof. Shin-ichi Yusa
Sponsored by:
Conference Secretariat:
Mrs. Betsy Feng
Mr. Chris Chen
Email: [email protected]
Conference Chairs

Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy,
UdR-Catania Consorzio INSTM, Catania, Italy

Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
Conference Committee

Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

CNR-IPCB, Catania, Italy

Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Centre for Advanced Engineering Materials, School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK

Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Rende, Italy

National Hellenic Research Foundation, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, Athens, Greece

Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council, Portici, Italy

Chemical Technology, Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Session Chairs

Prof. Dr. Frank Wiesbrock
Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Leoben, Austria
Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0

Dr. Sofiane Guessasma
French National Institute for Agricultural Research | INRA, Paris, France
Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Geoffrey R. Mitchell
Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Institute Polytechnic of Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal
Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Carlo Santulli
School of Sciences and Technologies, University of Cameroon, Camerino, Italy
Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials

Prof. Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science

Prof. Dr. Sabu Thomas
School of Energey Materials, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers

Dr. Marina Patricia Arrieta Dillon
Department of Industrial and Environmental Chemical Engineering, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers

Dr. Andreia F. Sousa
CICECO and Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Portugal
Polymer Recycling

Prof. Dr. Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji
Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Applications Polymers in the Industry 4.0
Sessions
A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
F. Applications polymers in the Industry 4.0
G. Polymer recycling
Instructions for Authors
Registration for this conference is FREE and the works selected for their presentation on the conference will be published as conference proceedings at no cost.
Submissions should be made by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 150–300 words) online on this website before 26 August 2021.
- The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 6 September 2021.
- In case of acceptance, authors will be encouraged to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3-8 pages) before 29 September 2021. As an alternative, authors of accepted abstracts that do not wish to submit a paper will be able to submit a poster and/or short video presentation (max. 3-5 minutes) before 29 September 2021.
Please note that accepted abstracts that are not accompanied by either a paper or a video/poster will be withdrawn from the system and, as such, will not be included in the proceedings. - Submitted Papers will be evaluated by the Conference Committee. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 13 October 2021.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the conference website for discussion and rating during the conference, from 1–15 November 2021.
- All accepted proceedings papers and accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Materials Proceedings series journals (ISSN 2673-4605). Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
- The open access journal Polymers (IF 3.426) will publish a conference Special Issue. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Special Issue, and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC). Please note that this discount cannot be combined with other available institutional or editorial discounts.
Proceedings Paper
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template indicated below, and should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Download the template files for your IOCPS 2021 Proceedings Paper here:
The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 8 pages. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website, and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts should have the following structure:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
For further inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]
Video Presentations
Authors are encouraged to submit video presentations as supporting material. This is an unique way of presenting your work and discussing it with peers from all over the world. The video should be no longer than 3-5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4 / .webm / .ogg (max size: 250Mb). It should be submitted directly to the conference platform before 29 September 2021.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the authors' 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 here "The authors declare no conflict 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. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
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 that 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).
List of accepted submissions (34)
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sciforum-049796 | Study the effect of adding Oleic acid to reduce the medium diffusion in pores of hybrid silica-based sol-gel coatings |
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Due to the wide-ranging of preservative surfaces applications, there is a need for a fundamental understanding of not only how to produce such exceptional surfaces but also to know how specific surface properties affect coatings pore wettability, for example, morphology and chemical comprehending. Silica-based hybrid coatings as advanced hybrid polymers have been shown to exhibit excellent chemical stability with a chance to functionalize combined with reducing the corrosion of metal substrates. However, researches show that sol-gel only has some limitations in terms of the period of anti-corrosive properties due to the high porosity. Therefore, this work will report the preliminary performance of the diffusion prevention in a silica-based hybrid sol-gel coating that has been enhanced by adding Oleic acid (OA) to the sol-gel formula. The evaluation of the effect of the adsorption mechanism of OA on aluminium alloys surface was studied based upon using infrared analysis (FTIR) as a non-destructive test separately. The chemical confirmation of adding OA to Sol-gel was done by infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and supported by analyzing the morphology of the surface by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and water contact angle test (WCA). Furthermore, the coatings' corrosion performances were studied using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and Potential-dynamic polarization scanning (PDPS). As a result, the Oleic acid - silica-based hybrid coating exhibited exceptional functionalized pore-blocking, hydrophobic and anti-corrosion properties, providing mimicked active protection on the aluminium alloy 2024-T3 samples compared to sol-gel-only and non-coated samples. |
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sciforum-048019 |
Synthesis and surface modification of Zinc oxide nanoparticles to prepare corrosion resistant coatings
Nikhita Khurana ,
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Manmohan Kumar ,
Avinash Pente ,
Keyur pancholi ,
Virendra Rawat ,
Chetan Kaushik
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Nikhita Khurana ,
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Manmohan Kumar ,
Avinash Pente ,
Keyur pancholi ,
Virendra Rawat ,
Chetan Kaushik
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Zinc oxide is an active, inorganic material for a number of important applications. Zinc Oxide have wide properties for industrial applications which has been further increased by making the use of it in nanoscale size that fit in the corrosion resistant coatings. Nanoparticles have unique properties such as large surface area and nanoscale size due to which it possess various application in coatings and paints. Coating is a covering which when applied to the surface forms a layer and act as a protective barrier to the surface based on the property of the coating. Nanocomposite coatings are comparatively low cost and have more applications like dealing with the corrosion and radiation resistivity. Incorporation of nanoparticles in coating enhance its property by reducing the void and expected to induce barrier property for corrosion. For this purpose, zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized using wet chemical method. The effect of reactants (base) used in ZnO synthesis was studied from pH 9 to 11 and was characterized using XRD, FT-IR, SEM-EDX, etc. To increase the hydrophobicity and to make them suitable to disperse in polymeric binder, synthesized ZnO nanoparticles, have been surface modified with different silanes such as aminopropyl triethoxy silane (APTES), hexadecyl trimethoxy silane (HDTMS) and vinyltriethoxy silane (VTES). Surface modification was examined by FTIR, TGA, SEM-EDX and Contact angle analysis and VTES was found suitable for surface modification. Surface modified ZnO nanoparticles have been dispersed in polymeric binder (liquid EPDM) with other additives to form coating formulations. These coating formulations were applied on MS panels and it was observed that developed coating formulations have good mechanical and physical properties and high corrosion resistance. |
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sciforum-047849 | Block-copolymer nanostructured silicon loaded with AuNPs for confined space photocatalysis |
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A high efficiency, low band-gap photocatalyst is presented. The platform consists of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) confined in the pores of a silicon substrate. Careful fabrication of the pores and choice of the particles allows for a maximum of two AuNPs within a single pore, preventing agglomeration. The nanoporous substrate is produced by first, creating a mask with block copolymer templating and metal infiltration on a silicon substrate, and second, reactive ion etching to remove the silicon, which has not been masked by the template. In this work, the pores are 60 nm in depth and 25 nm in diameter and the AuNPs are 18 nm in diameter. The AuNPs’ access to the analyte, provides more active sites for redox reaction, leading to enhanced efficiency. While proximity of nanoparticles enhances coupling efficiency, confinement prevents rapid recombination of photogenerated charge carriers, a major factor contributing to low efficiency of photocatalytic materials. Degradation of methyl orange (MO) is used to determine the photocatalytic efficacy of AuNSM compared to (i) bare silicon and (ii) AuNPs randomly dispersed on silicon. After 90 minutes exposure to UV light (λ = 353 nm) in the AuNSM, the MO absorption is <1%, indicating near complete degradation, while it is still 85% and 70% for systems (i) and (ii), respectively. Finite Element Method simulations of the confined structure suggest that the AuNPs act as a mediator/receptacle for photogenerated charges rather than a source of them at this wavelength and thus enhance the performance of the photocatalyst by creating more effective Schottky junctions—preventing recombination of electrons and holes—rather than by a localised surface plasmonic resonance effect. |
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sciforum-048196 | Equilibration of polyelectrolyte-surfactant layers at fluid/fluid interfaces: Different Scenarios |
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The interaction of polyelectrolyte-surfactant with interfaces plays a very important role in many technological fields, including cosmetics, food science or drug delivery. This has stimulated the research trying to shed light on the most fundamental aspects governing the adsorption processes and the equilibration of the interfacial layers. The current knowledge of the physico-chemistry of polyelectrolyte-surfactant systems has evidenced that in most of the cases, the association process of polyelectrolyte and surfactant molecules in the bulk is guided by non-equilibrium effects, even though the control of the mixing protocol allows obtaining reproducible aggregates (kinetically trapped-aggregates), with these non-equilibrium effects impacting decisively on their interfacial properties of polyelelectrolyte-surfactant systems. Therefore, the understanding of the interfacial processes involving polyelectrolyte-surfactant mixtures makes necessary the analysis of the association phenomena occurring in the bulk, i.e. the formation of the so-called polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes, and their impact on the equilibration of the interface. This work addresses the main physico-chemical aspects related to the formation of polyelectrolyte-surfactant layers at fluid interfaces, combining a careful examination of the equilibrium and rheological properties of the interfacial films with the structural and compositional information obtained using neutron reflectometry. Furthermore, the assembly of the mixtures will be correlated to the bulk association processes trying to provide a comprehensive picture describing the interfacial behavior of polyelectrolyte-surfactant mixtures at fluid interface. This requires the study of combinations of different polycations (poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) and chitosan) with surfactant bearing different charge (neutral, anionic and zwitterionic). Thus, it will be possible to obtain a whole perspective of the role of the association processes on the structure and properties of the interfacial layers. |
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sciforum-047935 | Essential oils-loaded nanofibrous mats inhibitory effect against the Escherichia virus MS2, mimic of SARS-CoV-2 | , , , , , |
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In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified. Hoping to prevent transmission, many countries adopted a mandatory mask use in closed public spaces. However, most mask options display a passive-like action against COVID-19. To overcome such restrictions, this work proposes the incorporation of anti-viral essential oils (EOs) loaded onto a nanofibrous layer that can be adapted to both community and commercial masks. Twenty EOs selected based on their antimicrobial nature were examined for the first time against the Escherichia virus MS2. The most effective were the lemongrass (LO), Niaouli (NO) and eucalyptus (ELO) with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 356.0 mg/mL, 365.2 mg/mL and 586.0 mg/mL, respectively. Polycaprolactone (PCL) was prepared at 14 wt% in chloroform/dimethylformamide (DMF) and processed via electrospinning, with processing parameters being optimized to 23 kV, 0.7 mL/h and 26 cm. Uniform, beadless nanofibers were obtained. Mats were characterized as mechanically resilient, to endure movements arising from mask positioning, and hydrophobic in nature, to repel droplets coming from the exterior. Loading of the nanofibrous mats was accomplished via two ways: (1) physisorption and (2) by combining the EOs with the polymer solution. In both cases, EOs were loaded at 10% of MIC concentration (saturation) for 24 h. Presence of the EOs was confirmed along the mats (UV-visible). Antimicrobial testing via halo determination, verified their diffusion abilities. More importantly, time-kill kinetics testing of the loaded mats attested to the EOs capability to fight the virus MS2 even when bonded to the nanofibers at a smaller concentration than MIC. EOs-physisorbed mats were quicker in their action, while those entrapping the EOs in their polymeric matrix retained the antiviral activity of the mat for longer. Data demonstrated the potential of these EOs-loaded PCL nanofibers mats to work as COVID-19 active barriers for individual protection masks. |
A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
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