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 ▪ Number of submissions received: 77 ▪ Number of submissions sent for review: 77 ▪ Number of submissions accepted: 55 ▪ Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 71.43% ▪ Average number of reviews per paper: 2 ▪ Total number of reviewers involved: 31 ▪ Any additional info on review process: ○ In addition to the peer review conducted before the oral presentation, remarks from the chair and co-chair during the technical paper presentations were also given due weightage in the selection of papers for publication. ○ Plagiarism/Similarity Index check was performed using Turnitin Service at National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India. The Cut-off was kept 25% without considering the references. Two papers with plagiarism slightly above the cut-off have also been forwarded as the exceedance is due to the similarity from their own submitted thesis works. ▪ Contact person for queries: Dr Sajith A. S. (sajithas@nitc.ac.in)