Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to join the 2nd Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference (CIWC2020) that will be hosted online by https://ciwc2020.sciforum.net/.

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, biomaterials, pavement surface, 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 2020 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:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Biocoating and biomaterial surfaces and interfaces;
• Coatings and surfaces for mitigating wear, erosion and corrosion;
• Advances in High Temperature Coatings and surfaces;
• Hybrid Surface Coatings & Process;
• Applications of Pavement Surface Coatings;
• Coatings, surfaces and interfaces for food safety and preservation;
• Deposition and Modification on Surfaces;
• Advances in coatings and surface characterization.

CIWC 2020 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.

CIWC 2020 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/special_issues/ciwc2020).

CIWC 2020 is a new and exciting experience for me that I believe that it is a taste of the future. CIWC 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!

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

Kind regards,

Dr. Alessandro Lavacchi
Prof. Dr. Andriy Voronov

Chairs of the 2nd Coatings and Interfaces Web Conference

Conference Secretariat

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.

Andriy Voronov is an Professor in the Coatings and Polymeric Materials at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA. Before joining NDSU in November 2007, he held a research position at the Institute of Particle Technology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany. He completed his academic education in the Ukraine, gaining an MS in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Lviv Polytechnic National University. Andriy Voronov’s research concentrates on nanostructured materials, responsive materials, biomaterials, polymer sustainable and renewable materials, colloids, nanoparticles, thin films, gels, polymer interfaces and polymer composites, as well as on polymer design and synthesis, surfactants, responsive polymer micelles, colloids, polymer latexes.