Nanomaterials Webinar | Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD): From Fundamentals to Applications

On Wednesday 22^nd November 2023, MDPI and the Journal Nanomaterials organized a webinar entitled "Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD): From Fundamentals to Applications". This webinar was very successful and clearly demonstrated the key role played by the EPD process in (nano)materials and biomaterials.

The first speaker of this webinar was Prof. Dr. Begoña Ferrari, with an presentation entitled “Advances in the colloidal approach applied to the EPD process”. She clearly emphasized the importance of fundamental knowledge of the EPD process to develop new surface architectures. She noted that both disciplines, colloidal chemistry and electrochemistry, have special relevance in film growth to improve the adherence of coatings and the cohesion of layers. In this sense, EPD conditions should be customized for each system particle–suspension–substrate, following the conclusions reached by the existing models and generating new knowledge to further meet the challenge to propose new ones.

The second presentation with the title “Electrophoretic deposition of biomaterials” was held by Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini. In particular, it was unambiguously demonstrated the key role played by EPD process to design biomaterials from inorganic to biological systems. The presentation covered several applications of EPD in biomedical applications, including the development of bioactive and antibacterial coatings on metallic implants, the coating of porous structures (scaffolds) with bioactive nanoparticles and the EPD of biological materials like biopolymers, proteins and other biological molecules.

The presentations were followed by a very active Q&A and discussion session, moderated by the chair Dr. Fabien Grasset.

In this section, you will find the recordings of this webinar to watch, re-watch and share with your colleagues!