3rd Coatings and Interfaces Conference
CIC2021 has been a success!
We would like to thank our chairs, session chairs, committee members, organizers, speakers, sponsors, and all the attendees for making this a great meeting.
Certificates of participation are available upon request to cic@mdpi.com.
You are also welcome to submit your extended work to the Special Issue related to the event.
See you at the next edition!!
the chairs
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Coatings and Interfaces Conference (CIC2021). Following the two very successful electronic editions of this conference series, we are pleased to announce that CIC2021 will hold its 3rd edition virtually, allowing attendees to actively engage in discussions about the latest findings in the field. The event will take place on 24–26 November 2021.
The impact of coatings and interfaces in technology is growing at an unprecedented pace. Energy, sustainable mobility, pollution control, critical raw materials, preservation of cultural heritage, control of materials degradation, food safety, and health science are all challenges that critically depend on our capability to engineer surfaces. The aim of the CIC2021 is to give scientists and professionals a unique opportunity to keep up with this quickly evolving field, by providing a comprehensive overview of the latest findings regarding the fundamentals and application of coatings and interfaces.
CIC2021 will bring together scientists and technologists from academia and industry, encouraging the involvement of excellent early-stage investigators. Participation in and “attendance” to the CIC2021 are FREE of charge. Participants will have the opportunity to share their most recent findings with a focus on the following areas of Coatings and Interface Science and Technology:
- Coatings for mitigation of corrosion, wear, and erosion;
- Bioactive coatings, surfaces, and interfaces;
- Advances in coating deposition and surface functionalization;
- Coatings for food packaging and preservation;
- Coatings and interfaces in cultural heritage conservation and preservation.
A Coatings Special Issue dedicated to the conference will be open to the submission of selected outstanding contributions.
We look forward to your participation!
On Behalf of the Organizing Committee
The Conference Chair
Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Hebe Li
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Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineOct 01, 2021
- Abstract acceptance notificationOct 15, 2021
- Full file submission deadlineNov 02, 2021
- Registration end dateNov 23, 2021
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Ugo Bardi
Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Chemisry, Scientific Pole in Sesto Fiorentino, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Zangari
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesvile, USA;
Giovanni Zangari is currently a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1991 and his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1995, working on the electrodeposition of magnetic materials. Before moving to Virginia, he was a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University in the Data Storage Systems Center and an assistant, then associate professor, at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in close collaboration with the Center for Materials for Information Technology. His research activities lie at the intersection of materials science and electrochemistry. In particular, his group is focused on developing the fundamental science and processing knowledge to tailor materials for micro/nano-electronics, magnetics, and, most recently, energy conversion applications. Current interests encompass the fundamentals of alloy electrodeposition, the synthesis of semiconductor materials for energy applications, the tailoring of electron transport properties in dielectric oxides, and the design of novel magnetic storage devices, among others. Prof. Zangari has published more than 170 articles in international scientific journals and has co-authored a book on the science and technology of electrodeposition. He is a Fellow and a member of the Board of the Electrochemical Society and of the Advisory Board of Electrochimica Acta and Coatings journals.
Sessions
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We are pleased to announce that the CIC 2021 Best Poster Awards, sponsored by Coatings, have been granted to:
Jolanta Lidia Szelwicka*, Tomas Barta, Jiri Houska, Jiri Rezek, Jaroslav Vlcek, Matthias Fahland, John Fahlteich - Deposition of stoichiometric VO2 on ultra-thin glass in roll-to-roll process.
Ekaterina A. Kukushkina* , Maria Chiara Sportelli, Nicoletta Ditaranto, Rosaria Anna Picca, Nicola Cioffi - Chitosan-based multicomponent antibacterial coatings to prevent biofilm formation for food packaging application.
Congratulations to the two awardees!
Welcome from the chairs & Opening Plenary Talk
S1. Coatings for Corrosion Wear and Erosion Mitigation
S2. Bioactive Coatings, Surfaces and Interfaces
S3. Advances in Coatings Deposition and Surface Functionalization
S4. Coatings for Food Packaging and Preservation
S5. Coatings and Interfaces in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Preservation
Flash Poster Presentations
Closing Plenary Talk & Chairs Closing Remarks
To acknowledge the support of the conference’s esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide two Best Poster Awards.
As a sponsor, Coatings would like to award the two best posters as elected by the conference committee. The Awards will consist of 500 Swiss Francs (CHF) to each awardee.
Posters should have the following information:
- Title (with authors and affiliations)
- Introduction / Objectives / Aims
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Contact information
Criteria of judgement on the poster should be clarity of poster and appearance quality.
Selected Papers from the 3rd Coatings and Interfaces Conference (CIC2021)
Guest Editors: Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi, Prof. Dr. Massimo Innocenti
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2022.
A special issue of Coatings.