Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. • Type of peer review: Single-blind • Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? The paper is relevant to the topic of the conference and contains new research result(s), is clearly written and structured; figures and tables are informative and correctly organized; references are correct and contain new literature sources. After revision the papers were submitted to the editor; in some cases, two to three revisions were done. This provided the high rate of acceptance. • Conference submission management system: No special system was used. The papers were submitted to the conference secretariat and then distributed to reviewers by the editors. The reviewers sent their reviews to the editor who then finalised the editing process. • Number of submissions received: 74 • Number of submissions sent for review: 74 • Number of submissions accepted: 73 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 98.6% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 9 • Any additional info on review process (ie plagiarism check system): No • Contact person for queries: Ayrat A. Nazarov, aanazarov@imsp.ru