Topical Advisory Panel

Members

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, 49931, MI, USA
Interests: Design, construction, and maintenance of pavements; Construction materials: asphalt, aggregate, asphalt concrete; recycled materials for civil engineering
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Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Interests: biocorrosion and bioenergetics; microbial corrosion mechanisms; materials science; electrochemistry
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ENSAIT Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles, Roubaix, France
Interests: fire-retardant textile; implementation of fire-retardant formulations (microencapsulation, spinning, coating); bio-sourced fire-retardant formulations
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Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: gas sensing; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); pesticide adsorption; tissue engineering (properties of adhesion, growth and cell differentiation); inks for 3D printers
Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: thin film deposition; E-ALD; electrodeposition; electroplating; nanostructured materials; thickness determination; materials science; corrosion; electrocatalysis; material characterization; EDS; XRF; SEM; AFM
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Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 34 Str., 41-819 Zabrze, Poland
Interests: oxynitride ceramics; scanning electron microscopy; composite materials; high energy grinding; foundry magnesium and aluminum alloys; X-ray phase analysis
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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Interests: Fracture Mechanics and Structure Scale Effect; metal materials and welded joints; Technology and application of structural integrity assessment with defects (ECA); Mechanical properties of lightweight porous materials
Universidade da Coruña, A Coruna, Spain
Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas: Ferrol, Spain
Interests: thin film deposition; fluid mechanics of coating flows; dynamic wetting / interfacial phenomena; instabilities; visualization of coating flow; modeling and simulation of film flows; computational fluid dynamics; multiphase flows; additive manufacturing

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School of Engineering, Rankine Building, Oakfield venue, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK
Interests: antimicrobial; antibacterial; antiviral; topography; nano-patterning; nanopatterns; sol-gel; surfaces; sterilization; ultraviolet; self-cleaning; stem cells; orthopeadic materials; titanium dioxide; anatase; osteoinduction; nanofabrication; lithography; 3D printing; additive manufacturing; nanomanufacturing
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Centre of Plasma and Laser Engineering, The Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences
Interests: surface modification; laser dewetting; laser structuring; electrochemical sensors; Au-Ti heterostrucutes; titania nanotubes; laser assisted nanomaterials


Institute of Materials Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Jana Pawła II st. no 24, 61-138 Poznan, Poland
Interests: materials; biomaterials; nanomaterials; porous materials; alloys; surface engineering; surface porosity; metallic foams.

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Tribology Research Division, Institute of Engineering Design and Product Development, Vienna University of Technology, 1060 Vienna, Austria
Interests: tribology; surface engineering; 2D materials; solid lubricants; materials tribology; laser surface texturing; lubricant migration
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Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Interests: coatings; polymer; materials characterization; FTIR; Atomic Force Microscope; thermal analysis


School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: functional surface; laser precision enginnering
Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: functional polymers: synthesis and application in (nano)technologies; surface-active polymer; surface segregation; surface modification; amphiphilic polymer; polysiloxane; fluoropolymer; PEGylated polymer; hierarchically self-assembling polymers: green chemistry and nanomedicine; antifouling/fouling release coatings
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: corrosion; advanced manufacturing; materials informatics
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Faculty of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: Amorphous Coatings; Biodegradable Metals; High-entropy alloy coatings;Anti-Oxidant Coatings

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State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: copper alloys; development of melting and casting processes under the action of external fields; new metal materials; nano materials; metal matrix composite materials
Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining Technology of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Interests: coating; surface modification; surface integrity; functional surface; hydrophobicity
Department of Biological Bases of Food and Feed Technologies, Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Sciences, 28 Głęboka Street, 20-612 Lublin, Poland
Interests: packaging material; freezing; food technology and preservation; food storage; heat transfer
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Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Technische Universität Wien, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
Interests: PVD; hard coatings; micromechanical testing; diboride coatings; superlattices

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Department of Solid State Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Interests: thin films; surfaces and interfaces; additive manufacturing; atomic layer deposition; sol-gel; polymer-derived ceramics; transition metal oxides; printed electronics, sensors

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Physics Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Interests: thin films; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

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Campus Minden, Bielefeld University of Applied Physics, Artilleriestrasse 9, 32427 Minden, Germany
Interests: thin films for solar cell applications; transparent conductive oxides; PECVD; sol-gel

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Interests: carbon nanomaterials and their composites for mechanical reinforcement and renewable energy applications; high-entropy alloys for (photo-)electrocatalysis
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Department of Nano Mechanics, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), Daejeon 34103, Korea
Department of Nanomechatronics, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34103, Korea
Interests: thermoelectric thin films; thermoelectric fibers; micro thermoelectric device; flexible thermoelectric device; textile-based thermoelectreic device; hot spot cooling; themoelectric power generator; characterization of thin films
School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: laser interferometry; LIDAR; infrared imaging and detection; computational imaging
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Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States
Interests: Polymers; molecular simulations
UNamur, LARN-NISM (Laboratoire d'Analyse par Reactions Nucléaires - Namur Insitute of Structured Matter), Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Interests: magnetron sputtering; thin film; HiPIMS; transition metal nitride; XPS; plasma synthesis; nanoparticles
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