On Wednesday 30 September 2020, the webinar on “Advanced Coating for Buildings” will be held in the frame of the e-book launch on “Advanced Coating for Buildings”, which was edited by Professors Aníbal Maury-Ramírez from Colombia, Inês Flores Colen from Portugal and Hideyuki Kanematsu from Japan.

Based on the current need to achieve sustainable development, multiperformance coatings have been developed for building applications (new and existing ones) to improve durability and to achieve novel, sustainable and health functions. Although there are already some commercially available coating products on the market, their application in the construction sector is still not very common. With some exceptions, this situation is most probably due to the lack of reported scientific evidence and the fact that there are still numerous unanswered questions about the concept and application. Therefore, this webinar aims to provide recent research and works on the application potential of advanced coatings for buildings, and intends to give new scientific insights into the interrelation between science, engineering, architecture and other disciplines, by means of advanced techniques for coatings’ characterization and their application. Specifically, in this webinar, speakers will present recent research and resolve questions on: "Advanced Protective Coatings for Buildings”, "Nanocoatings with Air-Purifying Properties”, "Antifouling Coatings”, "Ultra-Low Biofouling Materials and Coatings” and "Biological Coatings for Buildings”.

This Webinar relates to the Special Issue Advanced Coatings for Buildings and the printed edition of this Special Issue is available here.

We also welcome interested authors to share their research in the new special issue "Advanced Coatings for Buildings Ⅱ".

Chairs: Prof. Dr. Anibal C. Maury-Ramirez, Prof. Dr. Inês Flores-Colen and Prof. Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu

Date: 30 September 2020

Time: 3.00 pm (CEST)丨9.00 am (EDT)丨9.00 pm (CST ASIA)

Webinar ID: 865-0965-8603

Webinar Secretariat: coatings.webinar@mdpi.com

Prof. Dr. Anibal C. Maury-Ramirez	Dr. Maury Ramírez is the current Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Universidad El Bosque (Bogotá, Colombia). He is Civil Engineer from Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia), where he worked his thesis on the “Development of a neural-fuzzy model to estimate the in-let flows to waste treatment plants”. Thanks to his academic performance, he received from the European Union, the ALFA Scholarship on Materials Science. This time, working at Tampere University (Tampere, Finland), he researched on “TiO2 impregnation of concrete and plaster surfaces”. Based on the obtained results, he developed his doctorate on “Cementitious materials with air-purifying and self-cleaning properties using titanium dioxide photocatalysis” at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). Afterwards, with the aim of developing urban infrastructure with air-purifying and self-cleaning properties, he developed a postdoctorate at the Hong Kong Polytechnique University (Hong Kong, China). Today, Dr. Maury Ramírez is an associate researcher (Colciencias), author from more than 15 high impact articles, 50 articles in proceedings of international conferences and several books. Also, he has been acknowledged as Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of Coatings (MDPI, Switzerland), Member of the American Concrete Institute, Senior Member of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), and Member of the Hong Kong Concrete Institute. His main scientific contributions lies on the development of sustainable building materials, particularly on green walls and roofs, photocatalytic materials, nanomaterials, and sustainable concrete (i.e. supplementary cementititious materials, recycled aggregates, permeable concrete). Also, he has been involved in the design of sustainable buildings and communities. He was Professor from Universidad del Atlántico (Barranquilla, Colombia), Director of Posgraduate Studies on Civil Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Cali, Colombia) and Dean of the Engineering Faculty at Universidad de La Salle (Bogotá, Colombia).
Prof. Dr. Inês Flores-Colen	Dr. Inês Flores-Colen is an Associate Professor at Construction Section, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and a research member at research unit CERIS (also vice-president since January 2019). She is a civil engineer (1996), with MSc (2002) and PhD in Civil Engineering (2009). She published in the field of construction, civil engineering and coatings: 2 books; 7 book chapters (3 national and 4 international); over 50 papers in international journals; 60 reports (technical-scientific dissemination and institutional consultancy); and 35 international congress papers. Her supervision activities include 2 Post-doc researchers (1 finished); 9 PhD students (1 finished); and 80 Masters students. She is the referee of 20 international journals. She participates (ed) in 8 competitively-financed research programs (1 international ongoing - CCS-CCU - PPI/APM/2019/1/00042/U/00001), two of which as Principal Investigator (1 national ongoing - WGB_Shield PTDC/ECI-EGC/30681/2017; Nanorender - PTDC/ECM/118262/2010) and one was the responsible of the subcontracted IST team in a P2020 project (PEP -POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017417). She is a member of CIB W70 and W86 commissions (in this commission she is the secretary since June 2019). Her Scopus h-index is 17. Her research interests are coatings; innovative and sustainable solutions; performance; durability; pathology and in-situ testing; maintenance and rehabilitation; thermal retrofitting (mortars and ETICS); and aerogel-based renders. She is the first author of a national patent PT (108864B) published on July 2019 related to the development of an aerogel-based thermal render.
Prof. Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu	Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu is a professor of materials science and engineering at the National Institute of Technology at Suzuka College in Japan. Hide’s areas of interest include biofilm engineering, surface engineering, corrosion and STEM Education (Active learning by e-learning). He holds a B.Eng. (1981), a M.Eng (1983) and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering (1989) all from Nagoya University. He is active members, board members, editorial members of ASM International, National Association for Surface Fishing, the USA (NASF), the Institute of Metal Finishing, UK (IMF) as well as the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA(TMS), American Chemical Society (ACS), Electrochemical Society (ECS), the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM) and the Iron & Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ) etc.
Dr. Giovanni Borsoi	Researcher at CERIS - Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal since April 2019. Degree in Chemistry at Cá Foscari University (Italy, 2009) and Ph.D. at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands, 2017). Collaboration with the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC, Lisbon) for over a decade. Giovanni Borsoi has carried out an extensive research on the characterization and conservation of modern and historical building materials as well as on the development and analysis of compatible, effective, and durable products and coatings for the built environment. He participates as a Research Fellow in FCT-founded research project - “WGB_Shield - Shielding building facades for cities revitalization”.

The webinar will start at 3 pm (CEST) and will last about 1 h 30 min.