Submissions should be completed by the authors online by registering on www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-250 words) online on this website until 30 September 2020 14 March 2021.
2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome in the Micromachines 2021—Micromachines and Applications. All authors will be notified by 15 October 2020 17 March 2021 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the authors will be invited to prepare a full description of their work in the form of a PowerPoint presentation /poster, until the submission deadline of 31 October 2020 7 April 2021.
4. The conference presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/Micromachines2021 for discussion during the time of the conference 15 November–30 November 2020 15 April–30 April 2021.
5. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Journal Engineering Proceedings. After the conference, the authors are recommended to submit a full manuscript based on the proceedings to the Micromachines Special Issue "Selected Papers from ICMA2021" with a 20% discount of the APC charges.

* Special Issue Submission deadline: 15 July 2021

Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.

The following organization is recommended for your presentation:

• Length of the presentation: no more than 20 slides

• Slide 1 (strictly one slide): Title, authors’ names, affiliation(s), email address of the corresponding Author, and, not mandatory, logos of the laboratory and/or institution;

• Slide 2 (strictly one slide): Graphical Abstract, repeat the title of the presentation but avoid other text as much as possible;

• Slide 3 (strictly one slide): Abstract (max 200 words) and 3-5 keywords separated by semicolons;

• Slide 4 and following slides: should contain Introduction, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions in this sequence.

• Last slide: Acknowledgments and, not mandatory, logos of sponsors of the work.

Other formats (word document or poster) can also be considered.

ICMA-2021-PPT-template

Video Presentations

Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting a video presentation, please contact the conference organizer (icma2021@mdpi.com) to get to learn more about the procedure.

Tips for authors: If you would like to prepare a video based on your PowerPoint presentation, you may use the "record slide" function in the PowerPoint. The video will be uploaded to YouTube, as well as onto Sciforum. The video should be no longer than 20 minutes and be prepared in one of the following formats:

• .MP4
• .webm
• .ogg

The video should be submitted via email before 7 April 2021.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "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 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).