virtual

1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

15 - 29 March 2019

Online

Event Announcement

The 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference has now been closed. We hope you enjoyed this new concept and see it as a good venue for you to exchange your new research ideas. We thank you for your support by participating at the 1st of our web conferences.

Welcome from
the chairs

Welcome from the Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

15–29 March 2019

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference (CIWC) that will be hosted online by Sciforum (https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019).

Coatings and interfaces play a crucial role in current technology and have critical importance in addressing major societal challenges. Among them energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, pollution, critical raw materials, corrosion wear and erosion, food safety and health science are of outstanding importance. CIWC will present the state-of-the-art of coatings and of the interface science and technology related to these issues.

CIWC 2019 aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of surfaces, coatings and interfaces. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Coatings and surfaces for corrosion, wear and erosion mitigation;
Coatings and interfaces for energy applications;
Biocoating and biomaterial surfaces and interfaces;
Coating deposition and surface modification technologies;
Coatings, surfaces and interfaces for food safety and preservation;
Coatings, surfaces and interfaces for cultural heritage;
Advances in coatings and surface characterization.

CIWC 2019 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.

CWIC 2019 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question and answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted for publication in Coatings (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings).

CWIC is a new and exciting experience for me that I believe that it is a taste of the future. CWIC will revolutionize dissemination in the field with a brand-new tool for sharing research in an online environment that will preserve the same standards and structure of traditional conferences, but will be more inclusive by breaking the cost and time barriers that prevent participation in remote events. ICTs are shaping our world, let’s make them change the way we communicate science!

We hope you will join us and present your work at CIWC 2019, and be part of this thriving online experience.

Kind regards,

Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
E-mail: lavacchi@mdpi.com
Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

Prof. Dr. Massimo Innocenti
E-mail: minnocenti@unifi.it
Co-Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi is the Editor-in-Chief of Coatings, an international open access journal devoted to the materials science and applications of deposited materials. Dr. Lavacchi is a Research Scientist at the Italian National Research Council (ICCOM-CNR), where he also is the Head of the Electron Microscopy Facility. Dr. Lavacchi’s research focuses on electrochemistry and materials science with a special emphasis on energy-related surfaces and coatings science and engineering. He has co-authored more than 80 papers in leading international journals, as well as the monograph “Nanotechnology in Electrocatalysis for Energy,” edited by Springer.

Professor Massimo Innocenti is the Associate Editor of journal Coatings. His research activity is focused on nanomaterials obtainable by electrochemical processes, which are used in the field of electrocatalysis, energy and sensors. From 2013–2015 he was the elected member of the Executive Council of the interdivisional group Chemistry for Renewable Energy (EnerChem). In January 2016 he was re-elected as a member of the Executive Council of the interdivisional group Chemistry for Renewable Energy (EnerChem) for 2016–2018. From 2013–2016, he was an ESRF Review Committee member at the Synchrotron of Grenoble. From 2014–2015 he was the Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Metal Nanocatalysts in Green Synthesis and Energy Applications" for the journal Molecules. He has taken part in various research projects at the Synchotron of Grenoble and Trieste. Prof. Dr. Innocenti is a member of SCI (Italian Society of Chemistry). He has undertaken notable international collaborations with the universities of Ulm (Germany), Athens (Georgia, USA), S. Carlos (Brazil), and Krakow (Poland).