Almost a dozen presentations were made  at the conference by the researchers of the Center for Digital Engineering, the Center for Materials Technologies and the Center for Photonic Science and Engineering. 

Professor Alexander Korsunsky, President and the Science Chair of the ICKEM & MatDes conference series, Head of the Laboratory for Hierarchically Structured Materials (Skoltech Center for Digital Engineering) gave an extensive introductory plenary lecture devoted to the Rational Experimental-Computational Correlation (RECC) in Structural Engineering and Mechanobiology.

Another plenary talk was delivered by Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy, Associate Professor at the Center for Materials Technologies, who spoke about the Surface Modification through Cold Spray Coating Deposition Method: Theory and Applications. Further, Professor Geoffrey Mitchell from the Institute Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal, gave plenary lecture entitled “The First 30s of an Injection Moulding Cycle – Operando SAXS Measurements”.

Skoltech students, engineers and researchers gave further 11 presentations and participated in the live sessions covering the topics of structural design, manufacturing, applied mechanics, functional materials, biomedical materials and alloys, electrochemistry and applied catalysis, advanced engineering materials and flame retardant coatings, and materials modeling using machine learning.

Skoltech representatives also took an active part in the online panel discussions on metalworking and composite materials, determining the properties of steels, and experiments on the use of hydrogels in bioengineering. 

PhD student Alexander Elkin from the Materials Technology Centre won the prize for the best presentation on the "Multiaxial tension-compression fatigue behavior of pultruded glass-fiber composites".

Conference organizers (Program Chairs) included two scientists from the Center for Digital Engineering: Assistant Professor Alexey Salimon, the Programme Leader of the conference,, and Associate Professor Henni Ouerdane, as well as Associate Professor Alexander Safonov from the Centre for Materials Technology.

During the conference, Professor Alexander Korsunsky met with colleagues from the University of Sharjah. Of particular interest was the interaction with Professor Abdul-Hai Al Alami, Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Department, with whom Professor Korsunsky discussed the prospects for co-operation in the field of new materials technologies.

The International Conference on Key Engineering Materials is an annual gathering that provides a unique platform for researchers in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering to share and promote their scientific results and discuss technical challenges and proposed solutions. The conference materials will be published as a special issue in Materials Today: Proceedings by Elsevier. The next conference is planned to be held in Baku (Azerbaijan) in May 2025.

Presenters:

• Rational Experimental-Computational Correlation (RECC) in Structural Engineering and Mechanobiology

• Surface Modification trough Cold Spray Coating Deposition Method: Theory and Applications

• Digital Materials” and the Materials Selection paradigm 

• Deformation mapping and modelling during bending of metallic and composite beams 

• The analysis of deformation fields in the vicinity of a crack in pipeline steel samples 

• Electrochemical Evaluation of the Corrosion Resistance of a Novel Mg-2Ga-2Zn Implant Alloy in Simulated Body Fluids 

• FIB-DIC Determination of Residual Stresses of Selective Laser Melting Single-Track Ni-based Alloy 

• Revealing diatom frustule vibrations: bridging computational study with atomic force microscopy experimentation 

• Complex Force-length Ratio Patterns for Shell Structures 

• Machine Learning-Based Material Determination in Additive Manufacturing Processes Using Heterogeneous Data 

• Multiaxial tension-compression fatigue behavior of pultruded glass-fiber composites

List of researchers from Skoltech who participated in the conference 

Professor at the Skoltech Center for Digital Engineering (Russia), Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford (UK) Alexander Korsunsky

Associate Professor of the Center for Materials Technologies Dmitriy Dzhurinskiy 

Assistant Professor of the Center for Digital Engineering Alexey Salimon 

Junior Research Scientist of the Center for Digital Engineering Eugene Statnik 

PhD student Lucynda Lumba

PhD student Alexander Frantsuzov

PhD student Iuliia Sadykova

PhD student Rustam Kyarimov

Research Scientist  of the Center for Photonic Science and Engineering Julijana Cvjetinovic

Senior Research Scientist of the Center for Energy Science and Technology Sergey Luchkin

PhD student Stanislav Perevoschikov 

Director of the Skoltech Center for Materials Technologies, Associate Professor Ivan Sergeichev 

PhD student Pavel Somov

Vice President for Photonics, Director of the Skoltech Center for Photonic Science and Engineering, Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis

Professor of the Center for Photonic Science and Engineering Dmitry Gorin

PhD student  Anastasiia Moskaleva

Associate Professor of the Centre for Materials Technology Aleksandr Safonov 

PhD student Anastasiia Volkova 

PhD student Radmir Karamov

PhD student Alexander Elkin