Young Researchers' meetings are held annually late in December since 2002 and they are organized by the Materials Research Society of Serbia. Originally conceived as seminars, since 2007 these meetings were transformed into conferences. The previous ten meetings featured presentations based on the research of various young scientists from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Brazil, Germany, United States of America, China, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Romania, United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Canada, etc. At the Conference, young researchers, students of doctoral, master and undergraduate studies, are given the opportunity to make an overview of their research into materials science and engineering through oral and poster presentations. As for the scientific content of the conference, we have given full priority to research topics that are currently considered as being on the frontier of the field. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Synthesis and Engineering of Biomaterials, Application of Biomaterials, Theoretical Modeling of Materials and Advanced Methods for Synthesis and Processing present only some of those exciting topics that will be given the central stage and most attention during this meeting. The conference is free of charge and the participants are invited to submit their papers to the journals Tehnika – Novi Materijali and Hemijska Industrija. The Tenth Young Researchers' Conference Materials Science and Engineering was held in Belgrade, Serbia on December 21-23, 2011. It was organized by the Materials Research Society of Serbia and Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Book Title: 3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - mESC-IS 2018, Program and the Book of Abstracts Conference Chair Jasmina Grbović Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Conference Vice chair(s) Bojana Paskaš Mamula, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sandra Kurko, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Nikola Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sanja Milošević Govedarović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia International Advisory Board Dag Noreus, Stockholm University, Sweden Daniel Fruchart, Neel Institute, Grenoble, France Volodymyr Yartys, Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway Amelia Montone, ENEA, Casaccia, Italy Patricia de Rango, Neel Institute, Grenoble, France Nataliya Skryabina, Perm State University, Russia Jose Ramon Ares Fernandez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Tayfur Öztürk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Kadri Aydınol Middle East Technical University, Ankara Ruth Imnadze, Tblisi State University, Tbilisi Saban Patat, Erciyes University, Kayseri Slavko Mentus, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Šćepan Miljanić, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Jasmina Grbovic-Novakovic, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade Branimir Banov, IEES, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Fermin Cuevas, ICMPE/CNRS, Paris, France Darius Milčius, LEI, Kaunas, Lithuania Junxian Zhang, ICMPE/CNRS, Paris, France Montse Casas-Cabanas, CIC Energigune, Álava, Spain 4 mESC-IS 2018, 3rd Int. Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, Belgrade, Serbia Program committee Tayfur Öztürk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Adam Revesz, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Dan Lupu, INCDTIM, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Georgia Charalambopoulou, NCSR Demokritos, Greece Miran Gaberšček, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia Nikola Biliškov, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Maja Buljan, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia Branimir Banov, IEES, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Tony Spassov, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria Perica Paunovic, FTM, Skopje, Macedonia Siniša Ignjatović, UNIBL, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragana Jugović, Inst Tech Sci SASA, Belgrade, Serbia Ivana Stojković Simatović, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Igor Pašti, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia Nenad Ivanović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Ivana Radisavljević, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Milica Marčeta Kaninski, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jasmina Grbović Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Nikola Novaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sandra Kurko, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Organizing committee Bojana Paskaš Mamula, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Milićević, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Tijana Pantić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Sanja Milošević Govedarović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jana Radaković, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Katarina Batalović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Igor Milanović, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia,Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Andjelka Djukić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Bojana Kuzmanović, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Mirjana Medić Ilić, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Rmuš, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Željko Mravik, Vinča Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Dear Colleagues, Welcome to 3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - mESC-IS 2018 and the town of Belgrade! The aim of the symphosium is to gather the researchers from Balkans, and all over Europe dealing with energy related materials to discuss on the important issues regarding energy storage, harvesting and conversion. First two very succesful symposia were organised in Turkey in 2015 and 2017 by professor Tayfur Öztürk, METU. The symposium, as before, will provide a forum for discussion in recent progress made in three major activity areas, namely batteries, solid state hydrogen storage and fuel cells. The symposium have a fair balance of plenary sessions covering cross-cutting issues and the state of the art reviews and parallel sessions with contributed papers and poster presentation. The papers from this conference will be published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Special Issue in order to disseminate the knowledge and to improve the visibility of symposiun Dr. Jasmina Grbović Novaković Dr. Nikola Novaković Dr. Sandra Kurko

Young Researchers' meetings are held annually late in December since 2002 and they are organized by the Materials Research Society of Serbia. Originally conceived as seminars, since 2007 these meetings were transformed into conferences. The previous eleven meetings featured presentations based on the research of various young scientists from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Brazil, Germany, United States of America, China, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Romania, United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Canada, etc. At the Conference, young researchers, students of doctoral, master and undergraduate studies, are given the opportunity to make an overview of their research into materials science and engineering through oral and poster presentations. As for the scientific content of the conference, we have given full priority to research topics that are currently considered as being on the frontier of the field. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Synthesis and Engineering of Biomaterials, Application of Biomaterials, Theoretical Modeling of Materials and Advanced Methods for Synthesis and Processing present only some of those exciting topics that will be given the central stage and most attention during this meeting.

" This monograph describes how a failed state in 2030 may impact the United States and the global economy. It also identifies critical capabilities and technologies the US Air Force should have to respond to a failed state, especially one of vital interest to the United States and one on the cusp of a civil war. Nation-states can fail for a myriad of reasons: cultural or religious conflict, a broken social contract between the government and the governed, a catastrophic natural disaster, financial collapse, war and so forth. Nigeria with its vast oil wealth, large population, and strategic position in Africa and the global economy can, if it fails disproportionately affect the United States and the global economy. Nigeria, like many nations in Africa, gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960. It is the most populous country in Africa and will have nearly 250 million people by 2030. In its relatively short modern history, Nigeria has survived five military coups as well as separatist and religious wars, is mired in an active armed insurgency, is suffering from disastrous ecological conditions in its Niger Delta region, and is fighting one of the modern world's worst legacies of political and economic corruption. A nation with more than 350 ethnic groups, 250 languages, and three distinct religious affiliations--Christian, Islamic, and animist Nigeria's 135 million people today are anything but homogenous. Of Nigeria's 36 states, 12 are Islamic and under the strong and growing influence of the Sokoto caliphate. While religious and ethnic violence are commonplace, the federal government has managed to strike a tenuous balance among the disparate religious and ethnic factions. With such demographics, Nigeria's failure would be akin to a piece of fine china dropped on a tile floor--it would simply shatter into potentially hundreds of pieces."--DTIC abstract.

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the evolution of early metallurgy in the Balkans. It demonstrates that far from being a rare and elite practice, the earliest metallurgy in the world was a common and communal craft activity.

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Selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference of Non-Ferrous Metals - Processing and New Technologies, June 4-6, 2014, Wisła, Poland