By the end
of May 146 people from more than 20 countries from all over the World were
gathered to the 8th Aluminium Surface Science & Technology
Symposium in Denmark – www.asst2018.com.
Since its
first edition in 1997, the mission of the symposium has been maintained intact:
to create a high-level international platform where science meets the industry.
To do so, the symposium offers a very nice environment for a mixture of
academics, PhD students and industrial colleagues.
The venue
this year was set at the beautiful coast of northern Sealand – Elsinore in
Denmark at Hotel Marienlyst.
The 8th Aluminium Surface Science and Technology
Symposium follows the previous years’ symposium at 2015 (Madeira, Portugal),
2012 (Sorrento, Italy), 2009 (Leiden, The Netherlands), 2006 (Beaune, France),
2003 (Bonn, Germany), 2000 (Manchester, U.K.), 1997 (Antwerp, Belgium).
The Symposium series has been a unique and key event on aluminium surface
science and technology bringing together industries, universities, and research
institutions involved with aluminium.
Today the ASST symposium has become a common platform and net-work for
aluminium surface science and technology in Europe and the rest of the world.
This time gathering aluminium surface science people from countries like Germany, France,
Japan, England, Alger, China, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Korea, Australia,
Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Spain, US, Chile and Poland.
The goal of
the Symposium is to offer the participants a high-level meeting with attractive
presentations and an interesting social program.
This year
the program offered scientific topics, such as:
- Heat Exchangers
- Joining methods
- Chemical conversion coatings
- Electrolytic conversion coatings
- Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation
- Other Surface Treatments for aluminium
- Inorganic and organic coatings for aluminium
- Structure-Property correlations
- Aluminium science, Technology, and characterization methods
- Lithography techniques and Etching
- Corrosion properties and performance
- Thermo-Mechanical Processing
- Multi-materials design and performance
- Environmental free aluminium surface treatments
- Architectural design and performance
- Modelling of aluminium microstructure and corrosion
You can read the whole summary when the August number of Light Metal Age are on the street, or check back to see the upcoming posts regarding some of the presentations.
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