High velocity oxygen fuel spraying (HVOF)

• To create an interactive forum for multi-disciplinary discussion and to encourage interactions between scientists/engineers and personnel from industrial, research and academic organizations.
• To identify new processes and frontier areas of research in traditional and advanced surface modification techniques and analysis
• The conference will speculate on future trends relating to surfaces modification and analysis.

Scope

Research papers and participation from industries are being solicited in the following areas that are not necessarily limited to:

• Thermal, Plasma and Cold Spray Technologies and Coatings.
• PVD, CVD, DLC, biomedical, polymer, high temperature coating.
• Electroplating, electroless plating, anodizing.
• Galvanising, hard-facing, weld cladding and overlay, nitriding and organic and chemical  conversion coatings.
• Ion implanation, electron beam and laser based coatings.
• Thin and thick films – preparation and characterization and nanotechnologies.
• Surface analysis and investigations using optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, XRD, EPMA, XPS, AES, SIMS, NDT techniques etc.
• Surface electrochemistry and corrosion of coatings.
• Functional testing of coatings.
• Application of coatings in industrial setting: aerospace, automotive, textile, biomedical and energy.
• Surface engineering phenomenon – properties – applications.