WORKSHOP:

“Nanocoatings with Success: a Hands-On Experience with Fundamental Background”

Speakers:

Mr Moritz Graf zu Eulenburg, InovisCoat, Germany
Dr Arno Schmuck, InovisCoat, Germany

Programme Outline:

Talk 1 - The physical behaviour of substrates and its pretreatment possibilities (cleaning, corona, plasma etc.)

Talk 2 - Different physical aspects of coating chemistry (Rheology, viscosity, surface tension etc.) & Introduction into main chemicals used for coating

Coffee Break

Talk 3 - Introduction into different coating aggregates and concepts. 45 Mins

Talk 4 - Introduction into drying and curing

TRIALS

Question and Answers Session

EXPERT DISCUSSION PANEL:

“Nanotechnology: Providing Answers for Global Energy Needs”

Organiser and chair: Professor Peter Lund, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland

Energy is perceived as one of mankind’s mega-challenges. In less than forty years, half of all energy production, in industrial countries even much beyond this, need to be turned into carbon-free energy not only to mitigate climate change but also in response to shrinking old oil deposits. Such a transition will not take place without a true energy revolution. Massive investments both in more efficient energy use, renewable energy technologies and clean energy will be necessary. Huge technology development and deployment efforts are required as many of these technology options are still in their infancy and need to be made more cost-effective and scaled up in volume. Materials and nanotechnology could play a significant role along the path toward a sustainable energy future. The potential on nanotechnology is enormous, and if successfully incorporated into main energy innovations such as solar cells, fuel cells, hydrogen technology, and batteries just to mention a few examples, could mean bringing costs down to a fraction of present level and enabling mass production.

There are many challenges ahead along with new opportunities for nanotechnology in energy to be discussed by high-level experts from academia and industry in this Workshop and Expert Panel. Specific questions to be addressed include:

• What kind of energy technology leapfrogging could we expect through nanotechnology?
• How to bridge the scale from nanotechnology to global energy to make a true impact?
• When could massive “nano-energy” markets and business emerge, and in which areas?
• What is the role of science and basic energy research in the creating necessary solutions?
• What kind of policies need to be put into place to bridge from lab to business and markets?
• Are present financial resources adequate to make nanotechnology relevant for energy?

TUTORIAL I:

Advances in Electron Microscopy for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Speaker: Professor Dr Jeff Th.M. De Hosson, Department of Applied Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands

Undisputedly microscopy plays a predominant role in unravelling the underpinning mechanisms in plastic deformation of materials. There are at least two reasons that hamper a straightforward correlation between microscopic structural information and mechanical properties: one fundamental and one practical reason. First, the defects affecting these properties are in fact not in thermodynamic equilibrium and their behaviour is very much non-linear. Second, a quantitative evaluation of the structure-property relationship can be rather elusive because of statistics. In particular, situations where there is only a small volume fraction of defects present or a very inhomogeneous distribution statistical sampling may be a problem. A major drawback of experimental research in this field is that most of the microscopy work has been concentrated on static structures. In this short workshop various possibilities will be discussed to circumvent these problems via in situ microscopy. Examples of in situ nano-indentations, straining, heating and electron holography experiments on nano-sized materials will be presented.