14^th January 2022

Dear Academician and Researcher of Fibers and Polymers,

10^th ULPAS, 13-14 May 2022 at Istanbul Technical University

“Smart and Technical Textiles”

We are deeply happy and proud to announce that the “10^th International Fiber and Polymer Research Symposium” will be held on 13-14^th May 2022 as HYBRID SYMPOSIUM with the hosting of Istanbul Technical University-Turkey.

The purpose of the symposium is to bring the national as well as the international either public or private researchers in the fields of fibers and polymers together to discuss and share their scientific, technological and innovative outcomes. To this end, the topics ranging from novel polymers and fibers to characterization, by using natural extracts for the development of novel materials for medical, cosmetic and food applications, to photovoltaic items that produce electricity from sun light, to acoustics management by novel polymers have been discussed at our symposium series. With your contribution, this symposium will be a knowledge sharing, technology disseminating, brain storming event for the benefit of all us in these fields.

The 10^th ULPAS will be focused on Smart and Technical Textiles and will have the following topics as focus areas:

• The current status and the future prospects of technical textiles
• Smart textiles and wearable technologies
• Smart polymers and applications
• Innovative fibers, energy applications
• Technical fibers (high temperature resistant silica, carbon, glass, basalt ansd similar fibers)
• Medical textiles
• Fibers used of defence and aerospace industries, composite materials and textile structures
• Textiles for transport and aviation, and composite structures
• Sustainability for polymeric fibers and textiles
• Textile recycling
• Research on polymer, fiber and textile recycling.

The symposium will be organized as plenary and parallel sessions according to the topics of the presentations. We invite you to submit your FULL MANUSCRIPT prepared according to the Guidelines enclosed before the 15^th February 2022 by sending it ulpas@itu.edu.tr. The abstract submitted will be screened and evaluated by the Symposium Scientific Committee and the accepted presentations will be announced and included in the Symposium Program. 

The papers submitted to the symposium, which have sufficient scientific content, will be published as a special issue of an internationally indexed journal.

For the first time 10.ULPAS will have the following additional features;

• Presenatation and Meeting Session for the R&D Centers (See enclosed document)
• Career Meetings: Students-Companies
• Exhibition stands for research results in the form of polymer, fiber and end products.

We are also glad to inform you that the enclosed list of companies have generously agreed to sponsor the 10th ULPAS. You are all welcome to give support to 10th ULPAS.

We urge you to submit the results of your valuable research work at the scientific and industrial platform of the “10^th International Fiber and Polymer Research Symposium”.

Hope to see you on-site and on-line on 13-14^th of May 2022.

Yours sincerely,

On behalf of The Association of Fiber and Polymer Research Institute.