Authors are invited to send abstracts (one page) along with the registration form to the convener before 25^th JULY 2018. The abstract will be peer reviewed and authors will be informed of the acceptance of the paper. We strongly encourage submission of abstract by e-mail (microscopy@macromol.in). Full papers should be submitted as per instructions on or before 31^st JULY 2018.

English is the official language of the conference. No translation facility is available.

Facilities for power point presentation will be made available.

Manuscripts should be in camera-ready form and should not exceed four typed pages. Manuscripts should contain a short running title with name of authors and their affiliations, brief introduction, experimental, results and discussions, conclusions and references. Figures and tables are to be interposed in the text with captions. Authors are requested to prepare the manuscript in MS WORD using Times New Roman font (12 size) and 1.5 lines spacing in the main text.

The dimension of the poster is vertical height - 120 cm and horizontal width 80 cm. The poster will be placed vertically

During the conference there will be a brain storming discussion meeting in order to submit a joint project proposals to European Union under the “HORIZON 2020” programme for funding between India, Europe and Rest of the world. We will also discuss other bilateral research progrmmes between DST, UGC, INSA and DBT of India and Rest of the world. Please note that DST of India has signed bilateral agreement with almost all the countries in the globe. These include DST-NSF, DST-DAAD, DST-DFG, DST-KBN, Indo-French (CEFIPRA), DST-NSF, DST- Australia, etc etc. This conference will act as a good platform to find partners for international research collaborations. Please see the publications and citation of Prof.Thomas's Group (who welcomes all sorts of collaborations) in Mahatma Gandhi University from Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=74VyKRYAAAAJ&hl=en

We will bring many companies from India and abroad to have strong Business to Business (B2B) Industries Interaction. This will open up new collaborations, joint ventures, technology transfer between multinational, medium scale and small scale industrial units across the globe.

There will be major exhibition by different companies in the field of the subject. We will also invite ancillary units and companies supplying major characterization instruments.

On the last day of the conference a panel discussion will be held to sum up the deliberations of the conference.