Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Special Issue
IUPAC 10th International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-X)
To be Held in Zhengzhou, China, 10-15 October 2014
Call for Papers
AJSE plans to publish a Special Issue based on the “IUPAC 10th International Conference on Novel Materials and
Their Synthesis (NMS-X)” that will be Held in Zhengzhou, China, 10-15 October 2014. The aim of this Special Issue
is to produce a collection of selected review and research articles that were presented at the conference.
The topics of the issue may cover articles from the following disciplines and areas of interest:
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Innovative chiral and achiral compounds. Innovative bio‐ and biobased materials and composites, their preparation, properties and applications. Innovative polymers such as conducting, semiconducting and supramolecular polymers. Innovative energy systems. Innovative nanomaterials. TECHNICAL EDITORS Professor Yuping Wu: Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, China. E‐mail: wuyp@fudan.edu.cn Professor G.X. Wang: Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science University of Technology. New South Wales. Australia E‐mail: Guoxiu.wang@uts.edu.au Professor Shaokui Cao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University. China. E‐mail: caoshaokui@zzu.edu.cn Professor Bassam El Ali: Chemistry Department, KFUPM. Saudi Arabia E‐mail: belali@kfupm.edu.sa Professor Ibnelwaleed Hussein: Chemical Engineering, KFUPM. Saudi Arabia E‐mail: ihussein@kfupm.edu.sa ONLINE SUBMISSION Manuscript should be submitted online ONLY at http://www.editorialmanager.com/ajse/. Authors should select during the online submission the following type of article: Novel Materials (NMS‐China). 
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New ceramic materials. Novel materials related to coal, carbon, fullerene, graphene and graphite. Novel materials related to perfumes, agricultural chemicals, photosensitive materials, displaying materials, and fine ceramics alloys. New characterization. PROCESSING OF MANUSCRIPTS Only selected papers will be published in this Special Issue. All submissions will be checked for originality using “iThenticate”. No copied materials from any published sources, including the authors’ publications, are allowed in the new submission. All submissions are considered for review process ONLY if they have not been published or submitted for publication partially or fully in any form elsewhere. All manuscripts will undergo a strict refereeing process; acceptance for publication is based on two positive review reports and the positive report of the editor. ONLINE PUBLICATION OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The accepted papers in the Special Issue will be published online in 2015. DEADLINE Authors should submit online their papers by December 31, 2014. For more information please visit the AJSE websites: http://ajse.kfupm.edu.sa/ http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/13369 or send an e‐mail to: ajse@kfupm.edu.sa The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE) is an ISI research journal covering Science and Engineering subjects. AJSE is published by Springer for King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (KFUPM). AJSE covers the Science disciplines of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Physics along with the Engineering disciplines of Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Petroleum Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Systems Engineering.