After decades of intense research, nanomaterials are now an integral part of many applications and enjoy the attention of a large research community. Intrinsically multi-disciplinary, research activities are spanning from engineering, over physics and chemistry to biology and medicine. Likewise, current applications may differ from contrast agents for medical imaging to touch screens for mobile phones.

The scope of this online conference is to cover the whole breadth of nanomaterials research and provide a forum for presenting and discussing new results.

The conference will be free of charge for presenters and visitors. There will be an opportunity to publish peer-reviewed and accepted papers in a Special Issue in Nanomaterials (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials). MDPI offers a 20% discount on the publication fees for this Special Issue.

Important dates:

15 July 2018: Abstract Submission Deadline

25 July 2018: Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline

15 August 2018: Submission of Conference Proceedings Papers/Posters Deadline

1-15 September 2018: Conference Date

15 November 2018: Conference Special Issue Paper Deadline

We hope that this conference will be an inspiring and and exciting event.

Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual

Conference Chair

Professor Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual She has participated in 21 research projects (6 National, 13 International, and 2 with private companies). She has published 90 SCI articles (97% in Q1 journals). She has an H index of 34 and more than 2000 total citations. More than 50% of her articles are in journals with an impact factor ≥4.8, such as J. Mater. Chem, Carbon, J. Phys. Chem. C. She is the first and corresponding author of two invited reviews in Prog. Mater. Sci. She is a frequent reviewer for both ACS and Elsevier journals. She has 14 non-SCI papers (10 conference proceedings) and 20 book chapters and is the first author of an international patent. She has contributed to 10 national and 42 international conferences (40 oral communications including 2 invited talks and 12 posters) and has been a member of the organizing committee in three workshops and one national meeting. She was invited to impart seminars at prestigious international research centers (i.e. Max Planck in Germany, NRC in Canada, School of Materials (Manchester, UK). She was awarded the TR35 2012 prize by the Massachusetts Technological Institute (MIT) for her innovative work in the field of nanotechnology.

Conference Co-Chair

Professor Dr. Guanying Chen Dr. Guanying Chen is a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) since 2013. He also serves as a research faculty at the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB), SUNY Buffalo since 2011. His research interests focus on lanthanide-doped materials, upconversion, nanocrystals and crystals, biophotonics, and nanostructured solar cells. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, etc. He has an H index of 37 and more than 6400 total citations. He received the Top-Notch Young Investigator Award from the Department of the Central Committee of China in 2015, Top 100 National Excellent PhD Dissertation Nomination Award of China in 2011, and the Distinguished Young Investigator Career Award of HIT in 2015. He sits on editorial board for several journals including Scientific Reports (IF=4.3), Nanomaterials (IF=3.6), and Crystal (IF=1.6), and served as guest editor for Theranostics (IF=8.8).

Procedure for Submission, Peer-Review, Revision and Acceptance of Conference Proceedings Papers

Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start 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 15 July 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 IOCN 2018. All authors will be notified by 25 July 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 15 August 2018.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IOCN2018-1 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 1-15 September 2018 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
5. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference and journal Nanomaterils will publish the proceedings of the conference as a Special Issue. After the conference, the authors are recommended to submit an extended version of the proceeding papers to the Nanomaterials Special issue with 20% discount on the APC

Structure of Proceedings Paper

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.

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 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.

Video Presentations
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer at [email protected] to get to know more about the procedure. The following formats (.MOV, .MPEG4, .MP4, .AVI, .WMV, .MPEGPS, .FLV) are all allowed.This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!

Submission of Manuscripts

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.
• MS template

For further enquiries please contact us at [email protected].

Manuscript Preparation

• Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
• Formatting / Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of Nanoamterials. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the 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 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 be listed under Acknowledgments only. 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, a figure or a 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 "Acknowledgments" section. 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 "Acknowledgments" section.

Copyright

MDPI AG, 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 AG 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).