Formulating Functional Films and Coatings covers the physics needed to formulate effective functional systems; details the formulation science; exposes some of the new smart ingredients that which give access to new functional formulation space; and showcases new applications where formulation made it all possible. Most coatings have multi-functional properties and hence have to overcome significant formulation challenges to get the optimum balance of these properties and make them "smart".
This meeting is aimed at academic and industrial scientists and engineers involved in the manufacture and the application of films and coatings, across many industrial areas from coatings, to pharmaceuticals to thin film/printable electronics, etc.. It will also be of use to users of other technologies where functions currently provided by bulk means could be achieved more sustainably with functional films and coatings, such as the use of thin coatings to provide scratch resistance and electrostatic protection to bulk materials.
After attending the Formulating Functional Films and Coatings Conference expect to have gained knowledge on the fundamentals of formulation for functional films and coating; got some good ideas for new functions you can include in your own systems; have learnt about some of the ingredients which will shape the future; and be aware of how products that are already in the market are able to balance process-ability with end properties.
Professor William Russel will explain how colloidal forces during drying control the cracking of latex coatings giving insight into how to eliminate this problem. Professor Wayne Hayes will expose the potential of supramolecular polymers to enable self-healing and give viscosity control to inkjet printed materials. Professor Joe Keddie will detail how by taking advantage of the processes happening during drying it is possible to produce system where a single wet coating forms a multi-layer dry film with high value materials targeted to the interfaces where they are needed. Dr Paul Topham shows how fundamental system properties can be changed in response to environmental triggers. Dr Peter Gooden explains how a flexible manufacturing process allows metal oxide nanoparticles with specific properties to be produced to enable printed electronic. Dr Noreen Thomas, Professor Andrew Mills, Professor Dave Worsley and Dr Claire Bourdin show how formulation has enabled a wide range of new applications across packaging, inks, sensing, solar cells and inkjet printing. While the smart / functional properties are giving coatings and films access to new markets, this is not possible without retaining traditional properties, so Dr Andrew Slark and Dr Neal Willams will explain the challenges in the formulation of adhesives and paints.
Further details of the talks are available from the abstracts already on the site:
• show how energy savings through lower application temperatures can be achieved without sacrificing existing properties
• soft coatings that can be made hard reversibly to achieve self-healing
• particle assemblies within coatings that allow properties to turned on or off
• printing technologies which protect us from unsafe food
Other papers cover further topics from triggered films to paints to wireless sensing to smart plastics.
The conference will be held in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on Friday April 24th 2015
This meeting is aimed at academic and industrial scientists and engineers involved in the manufacture and the application of films and coatings, across many industrial areas from coatings, to pharmaceuticals to thin film/printable electronics, etc.. It will also be of use to users of other technologies where functions currently provided by bulk means could be achieved more sustainably with functional films and coatings, such as the use of thin coatings to provide scratch resistance and electrostatic protection to bulk materials.
After attending the Formulating Functional Films and Coatings Conference expect to have gained knowledge on the fundamentals of formulation for functional films and coating; got some good ideas for new functions you can include in your own systems; have learnt about some of the ingredients which will shape the future; and be aware of how products that are already in the market are able to balance process-ability with end properties.
Professor William Russel will explain how colloidal forces during drying control the cracking of latex coatings giving insight into how to eliminate this problem. Professor Wayne Hayes will expose the potential of supramolecular polymers to enable self-healing and give viscosity control to inkjet printed materials. Professor Joe Keddie will detail how by taking advantage of the processes happening during drying it is possible to produce system where a single wet coating forms a multi-layer dry film with high value materials targeted to the interfaces where they are needed. Dr Paul Topham shows how fundamental system properties can be changed in response to environmental triggers. Dr Peter Gooden explains how a flexible manufacturing process allows metal oxide nanoparticles with specific properties to be produced to enable printed electronic. Dr Noreen Thomas, Professor Andrew Mills, Professor Dave Worsley and Dr Claire Bourdin show how formulation has enabled a wide range of new applications across packaging, inks, sensing, solar cells and inkjet printing. While the smart / functional properties are giving coatings and films access to new markets, this is not possible without retaining traditional properties, so Dr Andrew Slark and Dr Neal Willams will explain the challenges in the formulation of adhesives and paints.
Further details of the talks are available from the abstracts already on the site:
• show how energy savings through lower application temperatures can be achieved without sacrificing existing properties
• soft coatings that can be made hard reversibly to achieve self-healing
• particle assemblies within coatings that allow properties to turned on or off
• printing technologies which protect us from unsafe food
Other papers cover further topics from triggered films to paints to wireless sensing to smart plastics.
The conference will be held in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on Friday April 24th 2015
