I am pleased to welcome you to the 3^rd International Electronic Conference on Materials (ECM-3). The first and second editions of this conference held in 2014 and 2016 respectively, were a great success that encouraged the organizing committee to continue this tradition by launching the 3^rd edition of this event from May 14 to 28 in 2018. Throughout this event, we aim to cover the following topics:

• Topic A: Materials Characterization
• Topic B: Nanotechnology in Material sciences and Engineering
• Topic C: Manufacturing Processes and Systems
• Topic D: Biomaterials
• Topic E: Fibers and Membrans
• Topic F: Optical, Electrical and Magnetic Materials

This is a virtual conference held at www.sciforum.net/conference/ecm-2018. Sciforum.net is the platform developed by MDPI and sponsored by the Open Access Journal Materials to organize electronic conferences, and to provide our community with the technical support for hosting our digital events. This platform is set in response to the high demand from our community whom might not have always required material and human resources for travelling and participating physically in high quality scientific events.

ECM-3 provides the participants with the unique opportunity to disseminate among their peers, in an open forum, their knowledge and latest research finding in materials field and receive immediately rich feedback from the virtual audience towards their future research directions.

The participation is free of charge – both for authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the proceedings of the conference, and selected papers will be published in Materials through invitation from the Editor-in-Chief of Materials.

I am very enthusiastic about this third addition of e-conference in Materials and am relying of you to make it a successful event again.

Prof. Maryam Tabrizian
Chair of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Materials

Prof Dusan Losic
Chair of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Materials

Conference Chair

Professor Maryam Tabrizian
Maryam Tabrizian is professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Faculty of Dentistry at McGill University. She was FRSQ-Chercheure nationale awardee (2006-2011), elected as fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2017, became Guggenheim Fellow in Biomedical Sciences in 2010 and the Fellow of the Biomaterials Science & Engineering (FBSE) in 2011 for her contribution to the field of Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. She received her PhD degree in Physical Sciences with a multidisciplinary background including physics, chemistry and biology from Université Pierre et Marie Curie-École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris in 1990. She was the director of the Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors (CBB) for 10 years that she has founded in 2001. She is internationally known for her work in the in design of functional and bioactive biointerface as well as advanced biomaterials for their application in nanomedicine and regenerative medicine as well as for Lab-on a Chip devices. She is the author of more than 170 peer-reviewed papers in her field of expertise, over 95 invited lectures, many book chapters, patents, and over 350 scientific communications and outreach activities. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials, Associate Editor of the Journal of Biological Engineering (JBI), and the International Journal of Biomaterials Research and Engineering (IJBRE).

Professor Dusan Losic
Prof Dusan Losic, is a Research Professor in School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia working as Leader of Nano Research group of 20 researchers and Director of ARC Research Hub for Graphene Enabled Industry Transformation, involving 4 University and 7 Industry partners, and > 40 researchers. He completed PhD (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) in 2003 at Flinders University, School of Chemical and Physical Science, Adelaide, where he spent 3 year working as a Research Fellow followed by 5 years as ARC Research Fellow at University of South Australia and from 2012 as ARC Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His multidisciplinary research involves fundamental, engineering and applied aspects across several disciplines focused one engineering, and applications of nanoscale materials to address concerning environmental, health, energy, agriculture and security problems. His research outcomes include published >250 journal (>8000 citations, H-index >45, 15 journal covers), >60 conference papers, >150 conference presentations, 7 patents, 4 licensed technology, attracting more >$20M research funding, including $7M from industry successfully completing >20 industry projects.

Sessions

Submission

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

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 150-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 06 Feb. 2018.
2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the ECMS 2018. All authors will be notified by 27 Feb. 2018 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint (only PDF) and/or video presentation of his/her paper, until the submission deadline of 14 Apr. 2018.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/ecms2018 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 14-28 May. 2018.
5. The Open Access Journals Materials will publish Special Issue of the conference and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue of journal Materials. (please note: the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC...; The conference proceedings will be included in a single issue of Proceedings journal (ISSN 2504-3900) after conference. Proceedings is an open access journal published by MDPI, dedicated to publishing all kinds of outputs from academic conferences.).

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
• Abstract
• 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 the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login 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 Electronic Conference on Materials Science 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 the layout very difficult.
• Electronic Conference on Materials Science MS Word Template File

• References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list. In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105). The Reference list should include the full title as recommended by the ACS style guide. The style file for endnote, MDPI.ens, can be found at https://endnote.com/downloads/style/mdpi
• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and all email addresses. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section. Please read the criteria to qualify for authorship.
• Figures, Schemes and Tables: All figure files should be separately uploaded during submission. Figures and schemes must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). All Figure file formats are accepted. However, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF files are preferred. Materials can publish multimedia files in articles or as supplementary materials. Please get in touch with the Editorial office for further information. All Figures, Schemes and Tables should also be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.). All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and a caption. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables. For multi-panel figures, the file must contain all data in one file. For tips on creating multi-panel figures, please read the helpful advice provided by L2 Molecule. Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). Full color graphics will be published free of charge.

For further enquiries please contact us at ecms2018@mdpi.com.

Authors wishing to publish their papers are asked to abide to the following rules:

• Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
• Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
• Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
• Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
• If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding publication of publishing addenda and corrections.
• Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.