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E u r o S c i C o n C o n f e r e n c e o n

Nanotechnology &

Smart Materials

Nano Research & Applications

ISSN 2471-9838

O c t o b e r 0 4 - 0 6 , 2 0 1 8

Am s t e r d a m , N e t h e r l a n d s

Nanotechnology & Smart Materials 2018

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orrosion costs are still huge, reaching up to 1% from gross national product

of many industrial countries. From other side, society cannot develop further

without considerable saving in energy and materials, and better protecting our

environment. Transferring these demands into the coatings world means that the

coatings must be as thin as possible and produced by energy and environment

saving technologies. Thin and ultrathin coatings have several naturally positive

properties as compared with the traditional, thick protective coatings: better

elasticity and optical transparency, smaller residual stresses, etc. But thin coatings

must be still well protective, wear resistive, and if needed, paintable and/or

biocompatible. For development of thin protective coatings, several techniques

were used, e.g. atomic layer deposition, ALD, for preparing nanolaminates of metal

oxides and electrophoresis for nanographene ultrathin films, and anodizing plus

ALD for new thin protective coating applicable for anodizable alloys; the latter

technology is widely patented. In the presentation, results of laboratory studies,

tests will be presented, first introductions of the methods into industry will be

reviewed, and perspectives of further developments will be discussed.

Biography

Väino Sammelselg has completed his PhD in 1989 from

Institute of Physics of Estonian Academy of Sciences and

in the following years, he was Visiting Researcher in several

universities of Finland and Sweden. In 2003, he was elected

Inorganic Chemistry Professor in the Institute of Chemistry of

University of Tartu and is serving till today; also he is Head of

Materials Science Department in the Institute of Physics. His

main scientific interests are thin film and coating technology

and characterization, corrosion protection and nanotechnology

applications. He has published more than 140 papers referred

in WOS database, and has h-index 32.

Thin and ultrathin protective coatings:

multifunctional and industrial

Vaino Sammelselg

University of Tartu, Estonia

Vaino Sammelselg, Nano Res Appl Volume:4

DOI: 10.21767/2471-9838-C6-024