Special issue on “Recent Developments in Surface Science”
Recent developments in Surface Science which were presented during the 30th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-30) are collected in this special issue. The conference provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in surface physics, chemistry and material science, focusing on aspects related to the recent advances and current challenges, while pointing out the prospective and interdisciplinary developments in these fields. ECOSS is typically organized annually (except when the triennial IUVSTA Vacuum Congress is held in Europe as was the case last year of IVC-19 in Paris) through the joint efforts of the Surface Science Division of IUVSTA and the Surface and Interface Section of the European Physical Society (EPS). The ECOSS conference series started in 1978 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has been held in various cities throughout Europe during the past years. This was the first time that an ECOSS conference was organized in Turkey. As Turkey brings together two ancient continents namely, Europe and Asia, ECOSS-30 was also a unique opportunity to realize a distinctly favorable cross-collaboration between surface scientists and other fields of sciences and engineering.
The impetus generated by inspiring and distinguished speakers enabled to attract more than 900 abstract submissions to ECOSS30. After a strict scientific evaluation procedure, an ECOSS-30 programme was formed by 292 Oral and 302 Poster presentations, in addition to 2 Plenary, 7 Keynote and 30 Invited lectures, delivered in 6 parallel sessions. In addition, more than 20 industrial vendors/companies exhibited their products and services during this exciting event. The outstanding scientific and technological contributions that were presented in ECOSS-30 were invited to submit the two different Special Issues that will be published in “Surface Science” and “Applied Surface Science” journals. This special issue is the collection of Recent Developments in Surface Science. We believe and hope that this special issue is beneficial to the surface science community and may attract more scientists to the topic.