Innovations in Materials: Current & Future (IMCF) is an international journal, publishing quarterly in English by Semnan University Press. It is dedicated to publish original research papers, review articles, case studies, and short communications and letters from a wide variety of sources concerning to the science and technology of advanced materials. The journal provides a forum for metallurgists, material scientists and engineers, physicists, chemists to contribute to the most important subjects in advaned materials. It seeks to encourage an intensive dialogue between scientist, engineering scholars and practitioners in materials science and engineering.  

This journal was published under the title Advances in Nanocomposite Research (ANCR) from 2014 to 2016, with two issues published. In its new phase of publication, the title has been changed to Innovations in Materials: Current & Future (IMCF).

  Innovations in Materials: Current & Future (IMCF) utilizes "Plagiarism Detection Software (iThenticate)" for checking the originality of submitted manuscripts in the reviewing process.