Instructions for Authors
Submission
Submissions should be made by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.
Note: An institutional email address is requested especially for the corresponding author. Please submit the abstract with the institutional email address.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 27 January 2023. The Conference Committee will notify authors of the acceptance of the abstract by 17 February 2023.

2. In the case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3-6 pages) before 17 March 2023. Optionally, authors of accepted abstracts will be able to submit a poster, a slides presentation (in PDF) and/or a short video presentation (max. 3-5minutes) as supporting material for the paper. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 31 March 2023.

3. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on Sciforum.net for discussion and rating.

Note:
All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees based on originality/novelty, quality of presentation, scientific soundness, interest to the readers, overall merit and English level. After the conference, all submissions will be published on sciforum.net, and only the proceeding paper (3-6 pages) will be published in the MDPI Materials Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2673-4605).
Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
Before publication, Materials Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2673-4605) will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal.
4. The submission to the Nanomaterials is independent of the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc. All participants of IOCN 2023 are welcome to submit an extended full paper to a conference Special Issue 'Advances in Nanomaterials 2023' with at least 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.

Proceedings Paper
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word (see below) and should be converted into PDF format before submission. The manuscript should be at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 6 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 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
Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.

Video Presentations

Authors are requested to submit video presentations accompanying extended submissions. Videos 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 with the full manuscript before 17 March 2023. (full submission deadline).

Posters
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. As with papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper.

After acceptance, please upload a copy of the proceedings/abstract as a PDF and Word document, in the corresponding fields, and upload the Poster PDF in the field "Presentation PDF (optional)".

1)The poster should be in PDF format
2)The minimum size for images is 148 mm × 210 mm (horizontal × vertical) at 300 dpi.
3)The content of the poster should be a comprehensive presentation of your accepted submission.
4) There should be no copyright issues with any elements in the poster.
For detailed instructions on how to submit a poster, please contact us.
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 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).

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