Peer Review Declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed by the expert committee members administered by the editiors. Reviews were conducted with referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. Manuscripts are selected based on the reviewer’s comments on the criteria given to them as. • Accept as it is • Accept with minor changes • Accept with revision as noted in comments • Reject in current form, but may be resubmitted • Reject, with no resubmission Authors are given opportunity to revise the manuscript based on the comments they received. Selection is made on the step by step manner as mentioned below Step 1: Initial Proof read by conference coordinators for scope Step 2: Plagiarism check using “Turnitin” Software Step 3: Paper sent to reviewers. Step 4: Send back the review commands to authors for revision. Step 5: Send back the revised manuscript to the reviewers for their approval Step 6: Finalize the paper for proceeding • Type of Peer Review Double-blind • Conference Submission management system Author ↔Editor ↔Reviewer E-mail Submission • Number of Submissions received 17 • Number of Submissions sent for review 13 • Number of Submissions accepted 08 • Acceptance Rate 47% • Average number of review per paper 2 • Total number of reviewers involved 10 • Any additional info on review process All the manuscripts received are checked for plagiarism using “Turnitin Software”. • Contact person for queries Dr. D. Palanisamy icammm@adhi.edu.in