The NANOSTRUC 2018 was held at HTW Berlin. NANOSTRUC2018 and brought together an international community of researchers in Berlin (Germany) on 23-24 May 2018The conference was aimed for stakeholders to discuss the state-of-the-art, new research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative applications relevant to structural materials, engineering structures, nanocomposites, modelling and simulations, and their related application areas. A sample of papers presented at the NANOSTRUC 2018 are briefly summarised.