
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0
Part of the 1st International Conference on “Green” Polymer Materials 2020 series
1–15 Nov 2021
Smart Polymer, Additive Manufacturing, Nanotechnologies, Functional Biopolymers, Polymer Recycling, Industry 4.0
- Go to the Sessions
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- A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
- B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
- C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
- D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
- E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
- F. Applications polymers in the Industry 4.0
- G. Polymer recycling
- Event Details
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- Best Paper Awards Winners Announcement
- Best Presentation Awards Winners Announcement
- IOCPS 2021 is Closed Now!
- IOCPS 2021 | Live Session
- IOCPS 2021 | Live Session Recording
- Welcome from the Chairs
- Conference Chairs
- Session Chairs
- Sessions
- Instructions for Authors
- List of Accepted Submissions
- Sponsors and Partners
- Editions in this series
Best Paper Awards Winners Announcement
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 established the Best Paper Awards to acknowledge the support of conference participants and to recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. Nominated candidates are selected by the committees based on the rigor of their science, the significance of their contribution to the field, and the originality of their work. The Best Paper Award winners are as follows:
Title: Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Particles Obtained Using Liposomes as Templates
by Irene Abelenda Núñez, Ramón G. Rubio, Francisco Ortega, Eduardo Guzmán
https://sciforum.net/paper/view/11222
Title: Light-driven Integration of Graphitic Carbon Nitride into Porous Polymer Networks
by Cansu Esen
https://sciforum.net/paper/view/11590
Each winner will receive a cash award of 300 CHF and an award certification. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Best Presentation Awards Winners Announcement
The 2nd International Online Conference on Polymer Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 established the Best Presentation Awards to acknowledge the support of conference participants and to recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments. Nominated candidates are selected by the committees based on the rigor of their science, the significance of their contribution to the field, and the originality of their work. The Best Presentation Awards winners are as follows:
Helena P. Felgueiras
Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia Têxtil (2C2T), Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Stamatina Vouyiouka
Laboratory of Polymer Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou Campus, Athens, Greece
Each winner will receive a cash award of 300 CHF and an award certification.
IOCPS 2021 is Closed Now!
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd International Online Conference on Polymers Science - Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 (IOCPS 2021) has been closed successfully with 33 accepted presentations and one live session.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.
You are also welcome to submit your extended full paper to the conference Special Issue in Polymers, with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges. More details will be released soon.
In addition, we will soon be organizing the publication of the conference proceedings in the journal Materials Proceedings free of charge. You will receive a notification when your paper is uploaded in the submission system. The editor will send the final version to you for proofreading when all the editorial processes are completed. Please kindly help to finish the publishing process if you are happy for your paper to be published in Materials Proceedings.
The Best Presentation Awards and the Best Paper Awards of the conference will be announced within one week, please find more information at the below sections.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Conference Secretariat:
Ms. Cassie Liu
Mr. Chris Chen
Email: [email protected]
IOCPS 2021 | Live Session
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IOCPS 2021 | Live Session. This FREE webinar will be held on 12 November 2021 at 14:00pm CET. The number of participants to the live session is limited but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards.
Please register by clicking the button below. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala |
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Research Keywords |
Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual |
Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Research Keywords |
Prof. Miguel Aldas |
Departamento de Ciencia de Alimentos y Biotecnología, Facultad de Ingeniería Química y Agroindustria, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito - Ecuador Research Keywords |
Program
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual PEEK Composites with Carbon Nanomaterials |
14:00 - 14:30 pm |
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala Hybrid Polymer-based Materials for Additive Manufacturing to Print Metal Parts |
14:30 - 15:00 pm |
Prof. Miguel Aldas Revalorization of Pine Resin Derivatives for the Development of Sustainable Polymeric Materials |
15:00 - 15:30 pm |
IOCPS 2021 | Live Session Recording
Live Session | 12 November 2021, 2:00pm CET
Welcome from the Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Online Conference on Polymers Science—Polymers and Nanotechnology for Industry 4.0 (IOCPS 2021), sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360; IF: 3.426). The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in the field of science of materials science and technology to present their research and exchange ideas with colleagues. This is an electronic conference, removing the need to travel and eliminating participation expenses while still maintaining a rigorous selection of scientific contributions and, at the same time, ensuring the possibility for visibility for your own research.
The conference will be organized around the following general topics, providing a forum for presenting and discussing new results. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
- Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
- Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
- Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
- Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
- Applications Polymers in the Industry 4.0
- Polymer Recycling
This will be a virtual conference held at Sciforum, a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize and provide technical support for electronic conferences, from 1 to 15 November 2021.
A number of free live-streaming sessions will be held during the conference including talks from invited speakers. These live sessions will also contain a Q&A section to answer questions from a live online audience.
Accepted abstracts and accepted conference papers will be published in Materials Proceedings. Please check the section ‘Instructions for Authors’ for a detailed description on how to submit your contribution to the conference.
All conference participants will be encouraged to submit a full manuscript to the Polymers conference Special Issue, with a 20% discount on the article processing charge. Conference Papers submitted to the Special Issue must have been extended at least by 50%, and will undergo the standard peer-review process of the journal.
The best conference paper and presentation will receive an award of 300 CHF, as well as an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Polymers.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cicala
Prof. Ana María Díez-Pascual
Prof. Shin-ichi Yusa
Sponsored by:
Conference Secretariat:
Mrs. Betsy Feng
Mr. Chris Chen
Email: [email protected]
Conference Chairs

Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy,
UdR-Catania Consorzio INSTM, Catania, Italy

Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
Conference Committee

Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

CNR-IPCB, Catania, Italy

Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Centre for Advanced Engineering Materials, School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK

Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Rende, Italy

National Hellenic Research Foundation, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, Athens, Greece

Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council, Portici, Italy

Chemical Technology, Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Session Chairs

Prof. Dr. Frank Wiesbrock
Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Leoben, Austria
Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0

Dr. Sofiane Guessasma
French National Institute for Agricultural Research | INRA, Paris, France
Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Geoffrey R. Mitchell
Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Institute Polytechnic of Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal
Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Carlo Santulli
School of Sciences and Technologies, University of Cameroon, Camerino, Italy
Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials

Prof. Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science

Prof. Dr. Sabu Thomas
School of Energey Materials, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers

Dr. Marina Patricia Arrieta Dillon
Department of Industrial and Environmental Chemical Engineering, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers

Dr. Andreia F. Sousa
CICECO and Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Portugal
Polymer Recycling

Prof. Dr. Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji
Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Applications Polymers in the Industry 4.0
Sessions
A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
F. Applications polymers in the Industry 4.0
G. Polymer recycling
Instructions for Authors
Registration for this conference is FREE and the works selected for their presentation on the conference will be published as conference proceedings at no cost.
Submissions should be made by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 150–300 words) online on this website before 26 August 2021.
- The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 6 September 2021.
- In case of acceptance, authors will be encouraged to submit their manuscript (short proceedings paper, 3-8 pages) before 29 September 2021. As an alternative, authors of accepted abstracts that do not wish to submit a paper will be able to submit a poster and/or short video presentation (max. 3-5 minutes) before 29 September 2021.
Please note that accepted abstracts that are not accompanied by either a paper or a video/poster will be withdrawn from the system and, as such, will not be included in the proceedings. - Submitted Papers will be evaluated by the Conference Committee. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 13 October 2021.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the conference website for discussion and rating during the conference, from 1–15 November 2021.
- All accepted proceedings papers and accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Materials Proceedings series journals (ISSN 2673-4605). Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
- The open access journal Polymers (IF 3.426) will publish a conference Special Issue. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a full paper to the dedicated Special Issue, and will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC). Please note that this discount cannot be combined with other available institutional or editorial discounts.
Proceedings Paper
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template indicated below, and should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Download the template files for your IOCPS 2021 Proceedings Paper here:
The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 8 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 should have the following structure:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
For further inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]
Video Presentations
Authors are encouraged to submit video presentations as supporting material. This is an unique way of presenting your work and discussing it with peers from all over the world. The video 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 directly to the conference platform before 29 September 2021.
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 that 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 (34)
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sciforum-049796 | Study the effect of adding Oleic acid to reduce the medium diffusion in pores of hybrid silica-based sol-gel coatings |
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Farah Zahoor ,
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Nicholas Farmilo
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Due to the wide-ranging of preservative surfaces applications, there is a need for a fundamental understanding of not only how to produce such exceptional surfaces but also to know how specific surface properties affect coatings pore wettability, for example, morphology and chemical comprehending. Silica-based hybrid coatings as advanced hybrid polymers have been shown to exhibit excellent chemical stability with a chance to functionalize combined with reducing the corrosion of metal substrates. However, researches show that sol-gel only has some limitations in terms of the period of anti-corrosive properties due to the high porosity. Therefore, this work will report the preliminary performance of the diffusion prevention in a silica-based hybrid sol-gel coating that has been enhanced by adding Oleic acid (OA) to the sol-gel formula. The evaluation of the effect of the adsorption mechanism of OA on aluminium alloys surface was studied based upon using infrared analysis (FTIR) as a non-destructive test separately. The chemical confirmation of adding OA to Sol-gel was done by infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and supported by analyzing the morphology of the surface by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and water contact angle test (WCA). Furthermore, the coatings' corrosion performances were studied using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and Potential-dynamic polarization scanning (PDPS). As a result, the Oleic acid - silica-based hybrid coating exhibited exceptional functionalized pore-blocking, hydrophobic and anti-corrosion properties, providing mimicked active protection on the aluminium alloy 2024-T3 samples compared to sol-gel-only and non-coated samples. |
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sciforum-048703 | Current Alternatives for In-can Preservation of Aqueous Paints: A Review | N/A | N/A |
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With the transition towards more sustainable paints formulations based on waterborne environment, their susceptibility for microbial contamination has to be better controlled in order to increase shelf life and functional lifetime. However, recent restrictions in European regulation on use of biocides have put limitations on the possibilities for traditional systems providing either in-can or dry-film preservation. The commercial technologies for in-can preservation that are currently available are based on 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one (CMIT) or 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one (MIT). At present, only limited number of alternatives can be used and are reviewed in this presentation. The examples of non-sensitizing biocidal components for coatings may include quaternary/cationic nitrogen amines, silver ion or zinc complexes. However, the use of the latter is not without risk for human health. Therefore, it is believed that disruptive methods will need to be implemented in parallel with bio-inspired solutions. In particular, the antimicrobial polymers, amino-acid based systems and peptides have similar functions in nature and can offer potential for antimicrobial activities. Also cross-border solutions currently applied in food or cosmetics industries need to be considered as examples that need be adapted for paint formulations. However, the incorporation in paint formulations remains challenging in respect of the stabilization and rheology control of the system. The overview in this work aims to provide different strategies and best evidence for future trends. |
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sciforum-048019 |
Synthesis and surface modification of Zinc oxide nanoparticles to prepare corrosion resistant coatings
Nikhita Khurana ,
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Manmohan Kumar ,
Avinash Pente ,
Keyur pancholi ,
Virendra Rawat ,
Chetan Kaushik
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Nikhita Khurana ,
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Manmohan Kumar ,
Avinash Pente ,
Keyur pancholi ,
Virendra Rawat ,
Chetan Kaushik
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Zinc oxide is an active, inorganic material for a number of important applications. Zinc Oxide have wide properties for industrial applications which has been further increased by making the use of it in nanoscale size that fit in the corrosion resistant coatings. Nanoparticles have unique properties such as large surface area and nanoscale size due to which it possess various application in coatings and paints. Coating is a covering which when applied to the surface forms a layer and act as a protective barrier to the surface based on the property of the coating. Nanocomposite coatings are comparatively low cost and have more applications like dealing with the corrosion and radiation resistivity. Incorporation of nanoparticles in coating enhance its property by reducing the void and expected to induce barrier property for corrosion. For this purpose, zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized using wet chemical method. The effect of reactants (base) used in ZnO synthesis was studied from pH 9 to 11 and was characterized using XRD, FT-IR, SEM-EDX, etc. To increase the hydrophobicity and to make them suitable to disperse in polymeric binder, synthesized ZnO nanoparticles, have been surface modified with different silanes such as aminopropyl triethoxy silane (APTES), hexadecyl trimethoxy silane (HDTMS) and vinyltriethoxy silane (VTES). Surface modification was examined by FTIR, TGA, SEM-EDX and Contact angle analysis and VTES was found suitable for surface modification. Surface modified ZnO nanoparticles have been dispersed in polymeric binder (liquid EPDM) with other additives to form coating formulations. These coating formulations were applied on MS panels and it was observed that developed coating formulations have good mechanical and physical properties and high corrosion resistance. |
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sciforum-048756 | Evaluation of the parameters of poly(butylene succinate) enzymatic polymerization | , , , | N/A |
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Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) is a bio-based and biodegradable polyester, that can be used in numerous applications ranging from clothing to food packaging and from car industry to biomedical sector (e.g. drug release systems). PBS conventional polymerization method requires the presence of metal-based transesterification catalysts (e.g. titanium-based catalysts) and high reaction temperatures (T>150 °C). However, under these conditions side reactions may occur along with undesirable yellowing. Green polymerization routes such as biocatalysis are being developed. However, there is a very limited literature on the enzymatic synthesis of PBS. Additionally, in most of the works where high-molecular-weight PBS is produced from the typical monomers (BDO and DES), several drawbacks e.g. the use of various solvents for polymer isolation, the requirement of high vacuum for by-products removal may impede the process scaling up. On that basis, an eco-friendly, solvent-free, enzyme-based process for the production of PBS was applied. It was conducted in two steps with the use of Novozym 435: the first at 40°C, under atmospheric pressure for 24 h and the second at 90°C, 20 mbar for 2 h. This work focused on the optimization of the second step’s conditions, by varying reaction temperature (80°C-95°C), pressure (20 mbar, 200 mbar) and reaction time (2h, 6h). Based on the optimization results, the process was scaled up (ca. 10 g of product). A free of thermal degradation and metal catalyst residues PBS grade of weight-average molecular weight 4700 g/mol and melting point 103°C was obtained. |
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sciforum-048790 | Antitumor cytokine DR5-B-conjugated polymeric poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) nanoparticles with enhanced cytotoxicity in human colon carcinoma 3D cell spheroids. | , , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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Self-assembled nanoparticles based on amphiphilic poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (Amph-PVP) were earlier proposed as a new drug delivery system. In current work, we studied antitumor activity of Amph-PVP-based self-assembled polymeric micelles covalently conjugated with the antitumor receptor-specific TRAIL variant DR5-B (P-DR5-B). The Amph-PVP polymer was synthesized by the earlier developed one-step technique (Kulikov et al., Polym. Sci. Ser. D, 2017). To stabilize Amph-PVP associates, the hydrophobic core was loaded with model substance prothionamide. For covalent conjugation with DR5-B, hydrophilic ends of polymeric chains were modified with maleimide, and a DR5-B N-terminal amino acid residue valine was mutated to cysteine (DR5-B/V114C). DR5-B/V114C was conjugated to the surface of polymeric micelles by the selective covalent interaction of N-terminal cysteine residue with maleimide on Amph-PVP. The cytotoxicity of DR5-B-conjugated Amph-PVP polymeric nanoparticles was investigated in 3D multicellular tumor spheroids (MCTS) of human colon carcinoma HCT116 and HT29 cells, generated by the RGD-induced self-assembly technique (Akasov et al., Int. J. Pharm., 2016). In DR5-B-sensitive HCT116 MCTS, the P-DR5-B activity slightly increased compared to that of DR5-B. However in DR5-B-resistant HT29 MCTS, P-DR5-B significantly surpassed DR5-B in the antitumor activity. Thus, conjugation of DR5-B to the Amph-PVP nanoparticles enhanced its tumor cell killing capacity. In current study we obtained a new nano-scaled delivery system based on Amph-PVP self-aggregates coated with covalently conjugated antitumor DR5-specific cytokine DR5-B. P-DR5-B overcomes DR5-B-resistance of the human colon carcinoma MCTS in vitro. This makes Amph-PVP polymeric nanoparticles a perspective versatile nano-scaled delivery system for the targeted proteins. |
A. Smart polymeric Synthesis and Modification for Industry 4.0
B. Polymer Development for Additive Manufacturing
C. Advanced Functional Testing of Polymeric Materials
D. Nanotechnologies in Polymer Science
E. Biotechnologies and Functional Biopolymers
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