Preface

The Conference took place virtually due to covid-19 outbreak and travel restrictions. The organisers were from different cities in Iraq but most of them from Basrah. There were five plenary speakers and these speakers were from UK, Australia, South Africa, Jordan and Iraq. Each speaker took approximately an hour with Q&A session. In overall, there were 11 sessions that were delivered by 82 speakers, who were from different countries, each speaker spent 15 min to deliver their talks. All the discussions and Q&A time were live through Zoom rooms and FCC. The overall attendance number was more than 500 people during 5 days. Laptops, phones, Zoom and free conference call were needed to deliver the meeting successfully. The only technical difficulty that we faced sometimes is the weak WiFi signals. The drawbacks in the delivery of the conference virtually, was we couldn’t welcome people in person and couldn’t have Gala dinner. Other than that everything went very well. The idea of the conference is for the chemist, scientists, scholars, engineers, and students from Iraq and all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. We think it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in different aspects of chemistry and its relation with other sciences. The conference program consists of invited sessions and technical workshops and discussions with eminent speakers covering a wide range of topics in chemistry. This rich program provides all attendees with the opportunities to meet online and interact with one another. We hope your experience with the 3rd VICC is a fruitful and long-lasting one. We would like to thank the organization staff, the members of the program committees, and reviewers. They have worked very hard in reviewing papers and making valuable suggestions for the authors to improve their work. We also would like to express our gratitude to the external reviewers, for providing extra help in the review process, and the authors for contributing their research results to the conference. Special thanks go to IOP Publishing-Journal of Physics Conference Series for their generous assistance and cooperation. List of Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, Technical committee are available in this pdf.