The 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences series
10–30 Nov 2020
Applied Nanosciences, Vibrations, Applied Biosciences, Bioengineering, Environmental and Sustainable Science, Applied Physics, Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Dentistry
- Go to the Sessions
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- A. Optics and Lasers
- B. Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences
- C. Energy
- D. Materials
- E. Chemistry
- F. Acoustics and Vibrations
- G. Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering
- H. Environmental and Sustainable Science and Technology
- I. Applied Physics
- J. Computing and Artificial Intelligence
- K. Applied Dentistry
- Event Details
Thank You for Participating
All participants of ASEC 2020 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Applied Sciences.
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences (ASEC 2020) that is hosted online by https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020.
Two decades have passed since the first year of the 21st century. The speed of the development of sciences and technologies are growing ever faster today than in the previous century. The field of science is expanding, and the structure of science is becoming ever richer. Because of this expansion and fine structure growth, researchers may lose themselves in the deep forest of the ever-increasing frontiers and subfields being created. This open-access journal, Applied Sciences, was started to help all scientists conduct their own research into the growth of these frontiers by breaking down barriers and connecting the many subfields in order to cut through this vast forest. These functions will allow researchers to see these frontiers and their surrounding (or quite distant) fields and subfields, and give them the opportunity to incubate and develop their knowledge even further with the aid of this multi-dimensional network.
ASEC 2020 aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of all aspects of applied sciences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Optics and Lasers (Session A)
- Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences (Session B)
- Energy (Session C)
- Materials (Session D)
- Chemistry (Session E)
- Acoustics and Vibrations (Session F)
- Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering (Session G)
- Environmental and Sustainable Science and Technology (Session H)
- Applied Physics (Session I)
- Computing and Artificial Intelligence (Session J)
- Applied Dentistry (Session K)
ASEC 2020 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.
ASEC 2020 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question and answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted for publication in Applied Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci).
ASEC-1 is a new and exciting experience for me that I believe that it is a taste of the future. ASEC will revolutionize dissemination in the field with a brand-new tool for sharing research in an online environment that will preserve the same standards and structure of traditional conferences but will be more inclusive by breaking the cost and time barriers that prevent participation in remote events. ICTs are shaping our world; let’s make them change the way we communicate science!
I hope you will join us and present your work at ASEC 2020, and be part of this thriving online experience.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Takayoshi Kobayashi
Chair of 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Jennifer Li
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-mail: asec2020@mdpi.com
Ms. Hobby Hou
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-mail: asec2020@mdpi.com
Call for Paper
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences will be held on 10–30 November 2020. ASEC 2020 aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of applied sciences. All proceedings will be held online at https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Optics and Lasers (Session A)
- Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences (Session B)
- Energy (Session C)
- Materials (Session D)
- Chemistry (Session E)
- Acoustics and Vibrations (Session F)
- Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering (Session G)
- Environmental and Sustainable Science and Technology (Session H)
- Applied Physics (Session I)
- Computing and Artificial Intelligence (Session J)
- Applied Dentistry (Session K)
ASEC 2020 is a virtual conference sponsored by Applied Sciences. Participation is free of charge for authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the proceedings of the conference. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in a Special Issue of Applied Sciences and undergo full peer review (ISSN 2076-3417; Impact Factor: 2.474 (2018)) with a 10% discount on the article processing charge. ASEC 2020 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without the concerns or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the internet. We would like to invite you to attend this conference and present your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted online by 28 October 2020 at https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020. For accepted abstracts, the proceedings can be submitted by 31 October 2020. The conference will be held on 10–30 November 2020.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Time Schedule
- Abstract Submission: 28 October 2020
- Notification of Acceptance: 30 October 2020
- Paper Submission Deadline: 31 October 2020
- Conference Open: 10–30 November 2020
We thank you in advance for your attendance of this conference and look forward to a stimulating exchange.
Conference Chairs
Advanced Ultrafast Laser Research Center, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Dr. Takayoshi Kobayashi is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Sciences, an international open access journal on all aspects of applied natural sciences published semi-monthly online by MDPI. Professor Takayoshi Kobayashi is a `Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is presently working as a Lifetime Chair Professor of Department of Electro-Physics and a Director of the Ultrafast Laser Research Center in at National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan and working as a specially appointed professor of the University of Electro-Communications, Japan. He had received his Ph.D. in Faculty of Science from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has membership in reputational societies. He is the recipient of number of honors for his scientific achievements. He also has a number of publications in the fields of Ultrashort pule lasers, Ultrafast spectroscopy, Super-resolution microscopy, and Nanoscience.
kobayashi1901@gmail.com
Conference Committee
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
Ting-Chung Poon is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA. His current research interests include 3-D image processing, and optical scanning holography (OSH). Dr. Poon is the author of the monograph Optical Scanning Holography with MATLAB (Springer, 2007), and is the co-author of, among other textbooks, Introduction to Modern Digital Holography with MATLAB (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Currently, he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Editor of Applied Sciences. Dr. Poon is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optical Society (OSA), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He received the 2016 Dennis Gabor Award of the SPIE for “pioneering contributions to optical scanning holography (OSH), which has contributed significantly to the development of novel digital holography and 3-D imaging.”
tcpoon@vt.edu
Physics Department, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium and Physics & Technology Department, Higher Pedagogical Institute, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Engineer in Physics and doctor in Physics. Emeritus professor of theoretical physics of Namur University, full professor in the Higher Pedagogical Institute, Bukavu. More than 300 publications in peer review journals, with about one half on nanostructures. Editor of the section "Nanotechnology and applied nanosciences" of Applied Sciences'. Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
philippe.lambin@unamur.be
Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark
Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 600 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of four monographs and editor of ten books in power electronics and its applications. He has received 32 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019 and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he serves a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences too. He is nominated in 2014-2019 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.
fbl@et.aau.dk
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920, USA
Amit Bandyopadhyay is a Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research expertise lies in the areas of metal additive manufacturing with special emphasis towards bone implants and multi-materials structures. He has worked with 18 Ph.D. and 30 MS graduate students, 6 post-doctoral research associates / visiting faculty members, and over 45 undergraduate students at WSU. He has written over 300 technical articles, edited 10 books and inventor of 20 issued patents, and member of the editorial boards of over 10 different journals. His work has been cited over 19500 times and current “h” index is 75 (based on Google Scholar). Further details of his publications can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CWnufe8AAAAJ&hl=en Prof. Bandyopadhyay received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, and the Anjan Bose Researcher award from the WSU. He is a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Ceramic Society, American Society for Materials (ASM), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and an elected member at the Washington State Academy of Science (WSAS).
amitband@wsu.edu
Faculty of Science, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
Sam Adeloju is a Professor of Chemistry and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science at Charles Sturt University, Albury (NSW), Australia and Editor-in-Chief of the Chemistry Section of the Applied Sciences Journal (MDPI). He has made original and innovative contributions to the design, fabrication, and characterization of conducting polymers, biosensors, nanobiosensors, nanomaterials and microbial fuel cells. Sam’s research activities is focused on the development and utilization of advances in bioanalytical and biological chemistry coupled with nanotechnology for fabrication of novel advanced nanodevices and nanoanalytical systems, including nanobiosensors, medical diagnostics and microbial fuel cells. In particular, he has made significant contributions to the development of biosensors and nanobiosensors for clinical, environmental and food analyses, as well as in the development of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for power generation from wastewaters. He has published extensively in international journals, books and proceedings. He was awarded the Royal Australia Chemical Institute (RACI) awards for Applied Research Medal (2009), R.H. Stokes Medal for Electrochemistry (2011), Doreen Clark Medal for Analytical Chemistry (2013) and Citation Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service (2017). Sam is also an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sensors (Chemical Sensors), member of the International Advisory Board for Sci Journal (MDPI), member of the Editorial Board for Biosensors (MDPI), and other international journals. He has been appointed on several occasions as a visiting professor of chemistry in Sweden, UK, Tasmania, China, and Malaysia.
sadeloju@csu.edu.au
Department of Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels 1050, Belgium
Dimitrios Aggelis is Professor of the Department of Mechanics of Materials and Constructions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since October 2012. Prior to this position he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Ioannina, Greece (2008-2012) and as research fellow in the Research Institute of Technology, Tobishima Corporation, Japan (2006-2008). He received his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Department of the University of Patras in 2004 and his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the same department in 1998. His main area of interest includes characterization of cementitious materials, expanding also to composites and metals by use of non-destructive inspection techniques focused on elastic wave propagation. He is active member of several technical committees of RILEM, the secretary of 269-IAM (Damage assessment in Consideration of Repair/ Retrofit-Recovery in Concrete and Masonry Structures by Means of Innovative NDT) and was the recipient of the world RILEM Robert L’Hermite medal of 2012 for his contribution in the field of construction materials. He has published more than 120 papers in international journals and more than 130 in conference proceedings along with 15 chapters in books or stand-alone books. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Developments in the Built Environment, editor of the journal Construction and Building Materials, the acoustics section-editor-in-chief of Applied Sciences, associate editor of Materials and Structures and editorial board member of NDT&E International. He is currently or has been involved in teaching of Experimental Techniques and Nondestructive Testing of Materials, Mechanics/Strength of Materials, Construction Materials, Dynamics of Structures.
Dimitrios.aggelis@vub.be
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Dr. Roger Narayan is a Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He is an author of over two hundred publications as well as several book chapters on processing of biomedical materials. He has previously served as director of the TMS Functional Materials Division and the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee; he currently serves as chair of the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the NCSU Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award. He has been elected as Fellow of AAAS, ASM International, AIMBE, and American Ceramic Society.
roger_narayan@outlook.com
Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Dr. Dibyendu ‘Dibs’ Sarkar is the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental and Sustainable Technology Section of Applied Sciences, an open access journal published by MDPI, and Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA. He received his PhD in Environmental Geochemistry at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1997. Dr. Sarkar’s research interests are in soil and water chemistry, environmental quality and remediation, human health and ecological risk assessment, and green technology development. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America and has authored 3 books and more than 130 journal articles in leading international journals.
dsarkar@stevens.edu
Section of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 15784, Greece.
Prof. Dr. Sarlis is the Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Physics Section of Applied Sciences, an international open access journal on all aspects of applied natural sciences published semi-monthly online by MDPI. Professor Nikolaos Vassiliou Sarlis is a Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He had received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from the same University in 1997. Among his research interests are the following: thermodynamics of lattice defects, thermodynamics of systems far from equilibrium, propagation of electromagnetic signals in inhomogeneous media, physics of Earth's solid crust, and physics of complex systems with applications in seismology and heart dynamics (e.g., sudden cardiac death risk). His research results have been commented by articles published in widely distributed journals such as Physics Today, Physics World (Institute of Physics, UK), EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, New Scientist or included in collections such as the Virtual Journals in Science & Technology developed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) and the EPL (Europhysics Letters) Highlights of the European Physical Society (EPS) in 2018 and 2019.
nsarlis@phys.uoa.gr
Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy
Andrea Prati (Laurea cum Laude in Computer Engineering, 1998; PhD in Information Engineering, 2002) is Full Prof. at the Dept of Engineering and Architecture of University of Parma since Dec. 2015. From 2011 to 2015 he was associate prof at University IUAV of Venice. From 2005 to 2011 he has been an Assistant Prof. at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He collaborated in several research projects. At regional level, he participated as task leader to the two-year project L.A.I.C.A.. At national level he participated to the PRIN 2006 FREE SURF project aiming at introducing new paradigms of video surveillance which must be also compliant to privacy laws. At European level, he is participating to the project THIS (Transport Hub Intelligent video System) of DG JLS of the European Commission. At international level, he is scientific responsible of the project BE SAFE (2006-2010) under the NATO funding scheme Science for Peace. He collaborates with several local and international companies in specific research projects (e.g. Adidas AG). His research interests belong to different themes, from mobile vision to embedded devices for sensor networks, to robotic vision. However, his main research activity is on video-surveillance topics. Andrea Prati is author of more than 160 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, he has been invited speaker, and reviewer for many international journals. He has also been the Program Chair of ICIAP 2007. He is the PC of ACM/IEEE ICDSC in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and as General Chair in 2014 and 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM and GIRPR. He acts as Assoc Editor for IJVP, IEEE TCSVT and CVIU journals. He is also the Section Editor-in-Chief of Section “Computing and Artificial Intelligence” of MDPI Applied Science journal. In 2014 he has been nominated IAPR fellow for his contributions to algorithms of video surveillance.
andrea.prati@unipr.it
Intelligent Systems Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Carlos A. Iglesias received the telecommunications engineering degree and the PhD degree in telecommunications, both from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is an associate professor in the Telecommunications Engineering School, UPM, Spain and Head of the Intelligent Systems Research Group, since 2014. He has been a principal investigator on numerous research grants and contracts in the field of advanced social and IoT systems, funded by the regional, national and European bodies. His main research interests include social computing, multiagent systems, information retrieval, sentiment and emotion analysis, linked data, and web engineering.
carlosangel.iglesias@upm.es
Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo received a D.D.S. degree and he completed his Ph.D. in Dental Materials Biotechnology at University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy). He had been Visiting Assistant Professor and Adjunct Scientist at the Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology at University of Regensburg (Germany). He was associate researcher at Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB) - University of Naples “Federico II” and he completed the three-year postgraduate program in Oral Surgery at the same University. He has served as Professor of Operative Dentistry at Sechenov University (Russia). Now he is Professor at School of Dentistry - University of Naples “Federico II” spending his time teaching and participating in the faculty practice in Endodontic, Operative Dentistry and Oral Surgery sections. Prof. Dr. Spagnuolo research is focused on the interaction between cell-tissue-materials at molecular and clinical levels.
gspagnuo@unina.it
Sessions
B. Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences
C. Energy
D. Materials
E. Chemistry
F. Acoustics and Vibrations
G. Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering
H. Environmental and Sustainable Science and Technology
I. Applied Physics
J. Computing and Artificial Intelligence
K. Applied Dentistry
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be submitted by the authors online by registering at https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020, and using the “Submit Abstract” function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–250 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online at this website up to 28 October 2020.
- The Conference Committee will conduct a pre-evaluation, based on the submitted abstract, of whether the contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences. All authors will be notified by 30 October 2020 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit the manuscript optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), up to the submission deadline of 31 October 2020.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available at https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020 for discussion during the time of the conference, 10–30 November 2020, and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
- The open access journal Applied Sciences will publish a Special Issue of the conference and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference itself. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.).
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
First page:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors’ e-mail addresses
- Abstract (200–250 words)
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should be at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables, and references) and should not exceed 6 pages.
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 in the website using the proprietary slides viewer at Sciforum.net. 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 PDF format before submission so that we can easily and automatically process them for online display.
Video Presentations
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video should be no longer than 20 minutes and be prepared in one of the following formats:
- MOV
- MPEG4
- MP4
- AVI
- WMV
- MPEGPS
- FLV
Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://sciforum.net/conference/ASEC2020 by registering and logging in to this website.
Accepted File Formats
- MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make layout very difficult.
- LaTeX: Manuscripts prepared in LaTeX must be collated into one ZIP folder (include all source files and images so that the Conference Secretariat can recompile the submitted PDF). When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the 1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences LaTeX template files.
1st International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences Microsoft Word template file and LaTex template file
ASEC2020_Word_template.docx
ASEC2020_Latex_template.zip
Manuscript Preparation
- Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm × 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Paper Length: The conference proceedings paper should not be longer than 6 pages. The conference manuscript should be as concise as possible.
- Formatting/Style: The paper style of the journal Proceedings should be followed. You may download the template file to prepare your paper (see above). The full titles of the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before punctuation; for example [4] or [1–3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors’ full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name(s) can be added. For papers written by various contributors, a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties who provided only minor contributions should only be listed under Acknowledgments. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Figures, Schemes, and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes, and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, figure, or scheme.
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 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 (75)
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sciforum-033307 | Decomposition of Bromocresol Green Using Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet | , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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This research study aims to decompose bromocresol green (C21H14Br4O5S) using direct irradiation of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma jet. The absorbance spectra of the bromocresol green solution have been measured as well as its electrical conductivity and also its pH before and after different time durations of irradiation. The results showed that the lengths of conjugated systems in the molecular structure of bromocresol green decreased, and the bromocresol green solution was decolorized as a result of the decomposition of bromocresol green. This result indicates that cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet irradiation is capable of decomposing and can also be used for water purification. |
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sciforum-033316 | Non-destructive evaluation of internal sulphate attack in cement-based materials applying non-linear ultrasonic techniques | , , , , , |
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One of the most aggressive attacks to which cement-based materials can be exposed is that produced by sulphate. During this attack expansive products are formed, causing volumetric strains in hardened materials, which brings microcracking and the reduction of their strength and durability. The use of non-destructive techniques for characterizing the microstructure and service properties of cement-based materials has become an important research field. Particularly, they can also be useful for following the development of deleterious processes which can affect those materials. Among them, non-linear ultrasonic (NLU) techniques have shown to be useful for evaluating the material degradation. In recent studies, they have been used for detecting cracks due to steel corrosion in concrete structures. NLU technique is based on the fact that the non-linear interaction of ultrasound with cracked materials generates higher acoustic harmonics. The aim of this work is to study the possibility of using the NLU technique for the non-destructive evaluation of damage in cement-based materials due to sulphate attack. Cement pastes were prepared using ordinary Portland cement to which an appropriate amount of calcium sulphate 2-hydrate was added during the setting for producing an internal attack in the samples. Furthermore, its effects have been followed with mercury intrusion porosimetry, scanning electron microscopy, linear ultrasonic technique, X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence. The expansion and the mechanical strengths of the samples were also determined. The preliminary results indicate that the NLU technique could be useful for studying the development of sulphate attack, complementing the information provided by other techniques. |
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sciforum-033597 | Synteza kompozytów polimerowych o właściwościach luminescencyjnych | , | N/A | N/A |
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This study presents the synthesis and properties of new polymeric materials in form of composites with photoluminescent filler. As a main monomer a bisphenol A glycerolate (1 glycerol/phenol) diacrylate (BPA.DA) was used. In order to obtain the appropriate viscosity of the polymerization system, three active diluents (methyl methacrylate, N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) were applied. In role of photoluminescent dopant the copolymer of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone with 2,7-(2-hydroxy-3-methacrylo-yloxypropoxy)naphthalene, in form of powder was adopted. The compositions were prepared with an increasing amount of filler: 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10% w/w. After polymerization reaction, samples which generating of green-yellow light by excited by UV radiation were obtained. The influence of the increasing luminescent filler content on the selected properties of the composites was evaluated. The thermal and mechanical behaviors of composites were determined by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and Shore D hardness. Moreover the chemical structure of polymeric materials were confirmed by the attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR/FT-IR) method. These results shown that the incorporation of the photoluminescent filler into structure of compositions can be interesting method of synthesis e.g. stable and functional polymeric coatings or optical fiber sensors. |
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sciforum-034510 | Effect of soil loading/unloading on its acoustic behavior | , , | N/A |
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The aim of the study was to understand the changes of p-wave velocity and acoustic emission (AE) as a result of soil loading/unloading. The soil was dune sand (poorly graded - SP index and three its fractions as follows: 2.36-0.6 mm, 0.6-0.3mm and 0.3-0.075 mm). The dried sand samples were studied using odometer instrument with simultaneous measurement of load and stain level. The stress range was 0-15 kPa. Each sample was loaded and unloaded while measuring primary wave speed and AE activity (number of hits) at each loading/unloading stage. The resonance frequency of ultrasonic sensors was 75 kHz, while measurement of AE was restricted by digital filtering in the range 300-500 kHz to avoid the effect of ultrasonic wave excitation on the AE signal. The experimental results show that the increase of stress level causes the rise of p-wave speed in the range of 514-630, 490-624, 521-637, 476-563 m/s for natural dune sand of 2.36-0.6, 0.6-0.3, 0.3-0.075 mm fractions, respectively. Note that the coarser the sand particle size, the more intense the non-linear response to sand unloading. Analysis of the wave velocity vs. the change in deformation shows a gradual increase in the p-wave velocity value with increasing deformation, as well as a sharp decrease with relaxation of deformation (unloading branch). The analysis of AE behavior indicates gradual increase of the AE activity with increase of stress and strain levels for all studied samples, while a minor AE activity during samples unloading is also observed. Finally, one can see the difference in the behavior of the two elastic parameters. In the stress increase branch: gradual increase in p-wave speed and sharp excitation of AE activity. In the stress relaxation branch: abrupt decrease in p-wave speed and minor excitation of AE signals. |
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sciforum-034512 | Multi-parameters approach for damage propagation analysis in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites | , , , | N/A |
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The use of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) has tremendously increased in the last decades due to their exceptional combination of reduced density and high mechanical strength, that makes them ideal in many advanced structural applications. Assessing damage evolution in CFRP is a very important task being, at the same time, very complicated due to the complex mechanical response of the composites. The acoustic emission technique (AE) is a non-destructive technique based on the recording of sound waves generated inside the material as a consequence of the presence of active defects. Proper analysis of the recorded waves can be used for monitoring damage evolution in many materials including composites. The acoustic track associated with the entire loading history of the sample or the structures is usually followed by using some descriptors such as the amplitude of the sound waves, the number of counts and so on. In this paper the acoustic emission in CFRP single lap shear joints will be monitored by using a multi-parameter approach based on the contemporary analysis of multiple features such as ASL, Initiation Frequency, Reverberation Frequency and so on to understand if a proper combination of them can be adopted for a more robust description of damage propagation in CFRP structures |
Event Awards
Session | Title | Authors | Awards |
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Acoustics and Vibrations |
Multi-parameters approach for damage propagation analysis in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites | ASEC 2020 Best Paper Award | |
Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences |
Ab-initio wave packet dynamical simulation of defects in 2D materials | ASEC 2020 Best Paper Award |
We are pleased to announce that the ASEC 2020 Best Paper Award was granted to :
Multi-Parameters Approach for Damage Propagation Analysis in Fiber Reinforced Polymer CompositesBy Claudia Barile, Caterina Casavola, Giovanni Pappalettera *, Paramsamy Kannan Vimalathithan
Ab-initio Wave Packet Dynamical Simulation of Defects in 2D MaterialBy Geza I. I. Mark *, Peter Vancso
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 2
The Best Paper Awards are presented to the papers judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference. There are 2 quota for this award.A. Optics and Lasers
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Prof. Yaping Zhang
Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, No. 727, Jingming South Road, Chenggong District, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, P. R. China
Prof. Liangcai Cao
Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
Prof. Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Department of Computer Engineering, Nihon University, Chiba 2748501, Japan
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Prof. Dr. Ting-Chung Poon, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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B. Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences
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Prof. Dr. Philippe LambinPhysics Department, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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Prof. Dr. Philippe Lambin, Physics Department, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium and Physics & Technology Department, Higher Pedagogical Institute, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
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C. Energy
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Prof. Dr. Frede Blaabjerg, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark
D. Materials
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Prof. Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920, USA
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E. Chemistry
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Professor Sam Adeloju, Faculty of Science, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
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F. Acoustics and Vibrations
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1. Acoustic Methods in Building Materials for Degradation and Repair Assessment
2. Elastic Wave Methods for Non-Destructive Damage Diagnosis in Composite Materials
3. Acoustics and Vibrations Analyses of Materials at Different Scales: Experimental and Numerical Approaches
Sub-session chairs:
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a. Prof. Dr. Eleni Tsangouri
Department of Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
b. Dr. Anastasios Mpalaskas
University of Ioannina, Greece
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a. Dr. Mathias Kersemans, Ghent University, Belgium
b. Dr. Kalliopi-Artemi Kalteremidou, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Lacidogna, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. imitrios G. Aggelis, Department of Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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Prof. Dr. Roger Narayan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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H. Environmental and Sustainable Science and Technology
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Prof. Dr. Dibyendu Sarkar, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
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1. Applications to Biophysics and Medical Physics
2. Applications to Astrophysics and Plasma Physics
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a. Dr. Francesco Dell’Olio
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
b. Dr. Luigi La Spada
Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and the Built Environment Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, United Kingdom
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Dr. Gabriele Cristoforetti
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO) - CNR, Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Vassiliou Sarlis, Section of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 15784, Greece.
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J. Computing and Artificial Intelligence
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1. Machine and Deep learning
2. Natural Language Processing
3. Social Computing
4. Multi-Agent Systems
5. Other Applications and Methods of Artificial Intelligence
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Prati, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy
Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Iglesias, Intelligent Systems Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
K. Applied Dentistry
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Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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