Editorial

Excerpt

XXVI International Materials Research Congress (IMRC2017), is an annual conference jointly organized by the Sociedad Mexicana de Materials (SMM) and the Materials Research Society (MRS), USA, Mexico. In the year 2017, it was held in Cancun, Mexico from August 20–25, and about 50 symposia were organized including the symposium on “Advances in Functional Semiconducting Materials” (AFSM). More than 2500 participants from about 45 countries actively presented their research findings, and specifically in the symposium on AFSM about nine invited, 14 oral lectures and about 100 posters were presented. The symposium on AFSM, envisioned as a platform for disseminating research results on recent progresses in semiconducting materials, providing an excellent opportunity for basic researchers and industrialists around the world to discuss their findings and kickoff collaboration at the national and international level. This special issue contains selected peer-reviewed work presented in the symposium on AFSM and some more works presented in other symposia. …