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This symposium focuses on cutting edge experimental, theoretical and manufacturing issues associated with advanced thin and thick film deposition techniques and surface modification processes. These processes allow the realisation of surfaces with enhanced properties and/or novel multi-functionality; thereby enabling them to meet present requirements and future challenges for more efficient, reliable, inexpensive, and clean applications that serve the technological needs of our society. Of interest are materials systems based on oxide and non-oxide ceramics; new carbons; metal-ceramic, organic-ceramic and nano-composites; and hybrid and graded structures.
Focus will be on:
- Advances in deposition, surface modification and nanostructuring techniques
- Refined characterisation and properties at meso- to nanoscale
- Protective coatings aimed at improving the high-temperature thermal, chemical and physical degradation of components in both oxidising and harsh environments
- Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) to increase the operating temperature of static and dynamic components in advanced gas turbines and in a number of other high temperature applications
- State-of-the-art tribological thin films and coatings used in, for example, cutting tool and machining, medical devices, electronic displays, hard disks, optical coatings etc.
- Smart and multifunctional thin films and coatings: self-cleaning, anti- microbial, anti-smog, catalytic, electrically/magnetically/optically stimuli-responsive etc.
- Modelling, simulation and data-base development for coatings
Session Topics
CI-1 Advances in deposition, surface modification and characterisation techniques
- Thermodynamics and kinetics, heat and mass transfer and in-situ monitoring of the deposition
- Process modelling and simulation
- Advances in deposition techniques: CVD/PVD, thermal spraying ,sol-gel, self-assembly, lithography, etc.
- Ion beam, laser and electron-beam surface processing; thermochemical treatments
- Substrate materials, substrate treatments; post-deposition treatments
- Advances in characterisation techniques and non-destructive testing
CI-2 High temperature protective coatings in oxidising and harsh environments
- Corrosion resistant coatings
- Abrasion, erosion resistant coatings
- Multifunctional coatings
- Coating design, processing, performance
- Characterisation of reaction scales
- Degradation processes, life-time assessment
- Effect of applied stress
- Advanced applications in gas turbines, diesel engines fuel cells, aerospace industry, coal
- gasification, metal casting
CI-3 Thermal barrier coatings
- Design methodologies
- Multifunctional and nano-structured coating systems
- Hybrid coatings and new processing methods
- Interfacial phenomena
- Residual stresses, ageing phenomena, failure mechanisms
- Testing and non-destructive evaluation
- Modelling and life prediction
- Smart TBCs (e.g., self diagnostic, self healing, damping coatings)
- Advanced applications in gas turbines, aero-engine parts, fuel cells, etc.
CI-4 Tribological thin films and coatings
- Hard single-and multi-layer, graded and nanocomposite thin films and coatings
- Surface treatments for friction and mechanical improvement
- Adaptive self lubricating coatings
- Interfaces and interphases
- Hardness, toughness, friction, wear and thermal characterisation
- Friction and wear mapping
- Nanoindentation and small-scale plasticity
- Nano- and microtribology of nanostructured and amorphous films
- Machining, cutting and forming tools applications
- Hard coating applications in microelectronics, magnetic recording and optical devices, computer disk drives, inkjet printing, precision instruments, medical devices and implants, automotive, aerospace, industry, agriculture etc.
- In-situ diagnostics, multiscale modelling and novel design and testing strategies
- Lifetime and reliability issues
CI-5 Smart and multifunctional thin films and coatings
- Self cleaning, catalytic, anti-microbial, anti-smog, damping coatings and films
- Passive and active coatings that respond to electrical, magnetic, and optical inputs
- Coatings that respond to bio-based stimuli
- Advanced sensor developments for in-situ monitoring of structural health
CI-6 Modelling, simulation and data-bases for coatings and films
- Material data bases for materials and their functionality
- Modelling of materials performance, relationship of simulations to performance
- Image-based and scattering methods for measuring and modelling ceramic coatings and films
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