Coatings Journal Publication

Participants of this conference are cordially invited to submit a complete manuscript to "Collection of Papers from the 2nd Symposium on Materials Coating Science and Technology (MCST'2025) ", a Special Issue of Coatings Journal (ISSN: 2079-6412，IF: 2.8, CiteScore：5.4, Ei Compendex) and enjoy a 20% discount on the publication fee (approximately CNY 4,200).
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.

Materials Proceeding Paper Publication

You are welcome to submit a proceeding paper (4-8 pages) to Materials Proceedings journal (ISSN 2673-4605) after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. The proceeding paper will be open for submissions after the conference and closed on 7 January 2026.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the MCST 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.
For other Proceedings related submission questions, please feel free to contact laurel.xu@mdpi.com

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.

MCST 2025 Proceedings Paper Temple