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 • Conference submission management system: Easychair.org • Number of submissions received: 58 • Number of submissions sent for review: 58 • Number of submissions accepted: 26 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 45% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved: 47 • Any additional info on review process: The papers were evaluated based on the technical criteria, quality criteria and presentation criteria. The referees argued detailed their reviews and provided an overall evaluation (strong accept, accept, weak accept, borderline paper, weak reject, reject, strong reject), specifying their confidence (expert, high, medium, low, none) regarding qualifications to review the allocated paper. For each paper, the similarity index was determined by the organisers using Turnitin software at Universiti Malaysia Pahang . • Contact person for queries: Associate Prof. Dr Devarajan Ramasamy; deva@ump.edu.my