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EC WebTutorials
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Understanding Easy-cleanability
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Presenter: Dr. W. (Marshall) Ming, University of New Hampshire, USA
Date: November 5 - 6, 2008 - 4pm-5:30pm Berlin (10am-11:30am New York)
Fee: 400,00 EUR
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 WebTutorial 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.
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
The Presenter
W. (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. Since October 2007 he is a Associate Research Professor at the Nanostructured Polymer Research Center at the University of New Hampshire/USA. His current research interests include nature-inspired functional polymers, nanostructured materials and applications, and environmentally benign polymer systems.
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