
1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference
Part of the Coatings and Interfaces series
15–29 Mar 2019
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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: [email protected]
Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference
Prof. Dr. Massimo Innocenti
E-mail: [email protected]
Co-Chair of the 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference
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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. |
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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).
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Call for Papers
The 1st Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference will be held from 15–29 March 2019. CIWC 2019 aims to promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of surfaces, coatings and interfaces. All proceedings will be held online at https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019.
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 is a virtual conference sponsored by Coatings. Participation is free of charge for authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the Proceedings of the conference. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in Coatings with a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Charge (ISSN 2079-6412; Impact Factor: 2.350 (2017); https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings). CIWC 2019 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference by presenting your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 10 December 2018 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the proceedings paper can be submitted by 5 February 2019. The conference will be held from 15–29 March 2019.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information on the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section “Instructions for Authors”: https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019/page/instructions.
Conference Chairs

Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), Firenze, Italy
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Department of Chemistry, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Conference Committee

Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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Dental Materials Science, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
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Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta", INSTM Local Unit Politecnico di Milano, 20131 Milano, Italy
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A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Instructions for Authors
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Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online on this website until 10 December 2018.
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The Conference Committee will notify the acceptance of the abstract by 20 December 2018.
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In case of acceptance, authors will be asked to submit their manuscript, along with a presentation and optionally a video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 5 February 2019.
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The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/ciwc2019 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference from 15–29 March 2019.
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The open access journal Coatings will publish a Special Issue of the conference proceedings papers. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Authors that wish to present a poster only, i.e. without proceedings paper, can do so in section F. Posters of this conference. Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.
Accepted File Formats
- MS Word: Manuscripts prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference Microsoft Word template.
Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm × 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Formatting/Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of Coatings. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example, [1,2], [3] or [1–3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Author List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle names can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figures and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
For further inquiries please contact us at [email protected].
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of accepted submissions (18)
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sciforum-022950 | Implementation of superhydrophobic PS electrospun nano/microfibers for corrosion protection of aluminum substrates | , , , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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In this work, the electrospinning technique is used for the synthesis of micro/nanofibers using a polymeric precursor with hydrophobic (even superhydrophobic) behaviour such as polystyrene (PS) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC). These electrospun fibers are deposited onto aluminum substrates (6061T6). The effect of varying the different electrospinning deposition parameters (mostly applied voltage and flow-rate) will be exhaustively analyzed in order to optimize the resultant electrospun coatings. Several fiber characterization tests have been performed, including Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Termogravimetric analysis (TGA), Optical Microscopy (OM) and Water Contact Angle (WCA) measurements. Furthermore, the anti-corrosion properties of these electrospun coatings can be enhanced by the addition of metal oxide nanoparticles (ZnO) which act as corrosion inhibitors. Finally, electrochemical corrosion tests (Tafel and pitting tests) have been perfomed, showing an improvement in the resultant corrosion resistance of the aluminum alloys coated by the combination of both polymeric film with metal oxide inorganic nanoparticles. |
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sciforum-022969 | Properties of Bio-Materials Obtained from Milk Whey Proteins at Different pH Values and Plasticizer Concentrations | , , | N/A |
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Milk whey (MW) represents the major by-product of cheese industry. One possibility to recycle the MW wastes is the use of their globular proteins (MWPs) as a polymer source for the production of biodegradable plastic materials. MWP-based films are usually obtained by protein heat treatment in the presence of glycerol (GLY) as plasticizer at pH 7, a method which would require commercially high costing process. In this work it was exploited the possibility to produce manageable MW-derived biomaterials without any heat-treatment but under alkaline conditions. Our results demonstrated that the casting at pH 12 of the unheated MWP film forming solutions (FFSs), containing either 40% or 50% GLY, led to produce more resistant and flexible biomaterials than the ones obtained at pH 7. Also film transparency was observed significantly improved, being lower in the samples obtained at alkaline pH without MWP heating and with higher GLY concentrations. Finally, moisture content decreased with the reduction of GLY content, both in heated and unheated MWP-based films, whereas water uptake of the different films prepared at pH 12 did not significantly change. |
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sciforum-022956 | Nitrogen Rich Stainless Steel Coatings Obtained by RF Sputtering Process | , , , | N/A | N/A |
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Magnetron sputtering is a useful tool for producing coatings on various substrates at low temperature. The use of an austenitic stainless steel target in a nitrogen-containing plasma mixture allows to obtain nanostructured coatings with the formation of the so-called S phase, supersaturated interstitial solid solution of nitrogen in the expanded and distorted austenite lattice, which shows improved hardness and higher corrosion resistance in comparison with the bulk alloy. In the present research, RF magnetron sputtering deposition of austenitic stainless steel coatings using an AISI 316L target in nitrogen-containing plasma gas was studied. The effect of the N2/Ar gas ratio and the deposition temperature on nitrogen content, phase composition and crystallite size is investigated by mean of XPS, XRD and electron microscopy analyses. The results show that the nitrogen content in the resulting deposit slightly depends on the N2/Ar ratio in the chamber during the deposition, reaching a maximum value of about 35% with a 30% N2/Ar gas composition mixture in the chamber. Data obtained on different substrates are presented and a preliminary evaluation of the corrosion resistance behaviour is also reported. |
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sciforum-022955 | Corrosion Resistance Test of Electroplated Metals using Fast Electrochemical Non-Destructive Analysis | , , , , , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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Corrosion testing is a very important step in quality control for metal industrial processes. Especially for electroplated goods, corrosion resistance is a primary indicator of surface quality. International Standard Organization has established several standards that use Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), alone or combined with other electrochemical techniques, to determine corrosion resistance of metal surfaces such ISO 16773 for testing coated and uncoated metallic specimens and ISO 17463 specially designed for organic-coated metal surfaces. EIS is a versatile procedure for the accelerated evaluation of the anti-corrosion performance of coatings: unlike other standard procedures is generally a non-destructive method. EIS works applying an electrical sinusoidal perturbation with a fixed frequency and measuring electrical impedance Z of the sample. Measuring impedance at different frequencies and analysing the data it is possible to postulate the structure of an equivalent circuit and extract corrosion resistance data. This approach is commonly used for high-impedance coatings, in this study we will explore EIS as well as the OCP measurement, the corrosion current and other techniques to find the best option for low-impedance metallic coatings analysis. The objective of this study is to develop a method to determine corrosion resistance for electroplated goods that can give results as reliable as other more diffuse and traditional destructive corrosion testing techniques (such as corrosion tests in artificial atmosphere ISO 9227 and ISO 17228) with a non-destructive process and in a fair less amount of time. |
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sciforum-022921 | Improving the health quality of fried falafel (Middle Eastern food) by using transglutaminase and/or pectin coating | , , , | N/A |
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The most disadvantage of the fried falafel balls are the highest level of acrylamide formed during Maillard reaction. Falafel balls are one of the largest deep fat frying fast food in the Middle East made basically of chickpeas. The main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of adding transglutaminase (TG, E.C. 2.3.2.13) to the falafel dough followed or not by dipping into pectin (PEC 1%) coating solution. Acrylamide, oil and water content of the fried falafel balls treated or not by TG (5 or 20U/g of chickpea proteins) and coated or not with PEC-containing film forming solutions were evaluated. In addition, the texture profile analyses were carried out. We observed, by TOF LC/MS, that the acrylamide content was reduced, compared to control sample, by 10.8% and 34.4% in the samples set up by adding 5 and 20 U TG/g respectively. In PEC-coated samples, acrylamide reduction was about by 59%, 65.3% and 84.5%, in falafel balls prepared either without of TG or containing 5U or 20 U of the enzyme, respectively, suggesting that TG-mediated crosslinks increase the water content inside the falafel balls, thus, reducing the rate of Maillard reaction. However, TG treatment does not affect oil content, while the PEC coating reduces the oil uptake about 23.5%. Finally, no difference was observed between the control sample and the one dipped in PEC regarding their texture properties hardness, chewiness and gumminess, while these properties were influenced in samples set up in the presence of the enzyme. |
List of Authors (89)
Event Awards
Best Paper Award Announcement
We are pleased to announce that the CIWC 2019 Best Paper Award was granted to :
for the paper entitled
“Functionalization of PU Foams via Inorganic and Organic Coatings to Improve Cell and Tissue Interactions”
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 1
The Best Paper Award is given for the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference.Terms and Conditions:
Best Paper Award
As a sponsor, Coatings would like to award the best paper as elected by all the conference committee. The award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Criteria for Evaluation of Best Paper Award 2019:
Criteria
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Conference Schedule
- Abstract Submission: 10 December 2018 06 January 2019
- Acceptance Notification: 20 December 2018 11 January 2019
- Full Paper Submission: 5 February 2019 15 February 2019
- Conference Open: 15–29 March 2019
Publication
After Conference, you could choose to submit your papers to the Special Issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings/special_issues/CIWC-1) which is set up by Journal Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412; IF 2.350 (2017), https://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings), with a 20% discount on the APCs (article processing charges); you also could further extend your papers and submit it to other journals, this conference won’t retain the copyright of your submissions, for details please see the“copyright”statement at Instructions for Authors part.
A. Surface Characterization
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Vasileios Koutsos, Institute for Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
B. Corrosion and Surface Protection
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Ludmila Boinovich, A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
C. Deposition and Modification on Surfaces
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. James E. Krzanowski, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire, Kingsbury Hall, 33 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824, USA
E. Biomaterial Surfaces & Interfaces
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Andriy Voronov, Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
Dr. James Kit-hon Tsoi, Dental Materials Science, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Tanzi, Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta", INSTM Local Unit Politecnico di Milano, 20131 Milano, Italy
F. Posters
In this section, posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper. Posters will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.