These proceedings are the collection of papers submitted to the international conference on materials design and applications (icmda 2018, april 04-06, 2018, colombo, sri lanka) by representatives of universities, research institutes and industries and present the readers with the recent advances in areas of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, application of functional and special structural materials in the practice of the modern mechanical engineering, building materials and applied biotechnologies.
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