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European Coatings Conference
Extra
Pre-Conference Tutorial
28 November 2007
Berlin, Germany
Main conference
"Easy-to-Clean /
Self-Cleaning Coatings"
29/30 November 2007
Berlin, Germany
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 Welcome
At a Glance
Tutorial
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EXTRA: Pre-Conference Tutorial
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| Pre-Conference Tutorial |
13.30 h Registration and Welcome Coffee
14.00 h Tutorial
18.00 h After-Work-Reception |
Understanding Easy-cleanability |
Do you wish to have a deeper-rooted knowledge of the fundamental
physical chemistry that is at work in easy-to-clean/self-cleaning coatings?
Our concise pre-conference tutorial will try to make you an expert,
explaining to you in detail the fundamentals of surface and interface
physical chemistry that is required to understand easy-to-clean effects,
e.g. ultraphydrophobicity or ultrahydrophilicity, enabling you to
follow and to judge the high-level expert presentations of the main
conference more easily.
The exclusive three-hour tutorial is limited to a maximum of 25 participants
to guarantee an intense exchange of information. Specifically, it
will cover
- a short review of the physical chemistry of surface tension
- Young‘s equation and its consequences
- the requirements for easy-cleanability: How can it be achieved via
chemical surface effects and/or structural surface roughness? Why do
these effects work?
- the concepts of ultrahydrophobic and ultrahydrophilic easy-to-clean
surfaces (Why does it have to be "ultra-"…?)
- concepts for oleophobic surfaces
- a discussion of static and dynamic contact angles and what they imply
- the concept of self-cleaning coatings based on photocatalytic titanium
dioxide particles
- common test methods of measuring contact angles and surface tensions,
and other tests to measure easy-cleanability
- a review of easy-to-clean-systems in practice and their limitations
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The Lecturer
Dr. Weihua (Marshall) Ming has been Assistant Professor
(UD) in Polymer Chemistry & Coatings Technology
at the Technical University in Eindhoven, Netherlands,
since November 2000. He received his B.S. in
Materials Chemistry in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Polymer
Chemistry and Physics in 1998, both from Fudan University
in Shanghai, China. From January 1996 to June 1997 he was a
research associate with Prof. F. N. Jones in the Coatings Research Institute
at Eastern Michigan University, USA, before he joined the TU Eindhoven
in November 1998, first as a post-doc at Prof. van der Linde’s
group of Coatings Technology. His current research interests include
nature-inspired functional polymers, nanostructured materials and
applications, and environmentally benign polymer systems.
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