Conference Program COSI 2005

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Monday 27 June 2005

  • 20:00 - 22:00 hrs Arrival, Reception

Tuesday 28 June 2005

Plenary Session: Weathering

  • 8:45 - 9:00 Opening
  • 9:00 - 9:45 Mark Nichols, The weathering behavior of UV curable clear coats: Experiments and implications
  • 9:45 - 10:15 Stuart Croll, Statistical approaches for predicting weathering degradation and service life
  • 10:15 - 10:45 John W. Martin, Linking field and laboratory service life exposure results for polymeric materials via a reliability-based methodology: a successful case study

Plenary Session: Film formation

  • 11:15 - 12:00 Paul A.M. Steeman, Recent developments in monitoring film-formation and cure of coatings
  • 12:00 - 12:30 Martin Bosma, The role of sag control agents in optimizing the sag/leveling balance
  • 14:00 - 14:45 Joe L. Keddie,
    Insights from modern techniques into the film formation of waterborne coatings
  • 14:45 - 15:15 Bart Erich, MRI depth profiling of drying alkyd coatings with different catalyst

Plenary Session: Mechanics

Wednesday 29 June 2005

Plenary Session: Waterborne

  • 8:45 - 9:30 Pieter J.A. Geurink, A complete new design for waterborne 2-pack PUR coatings with robust application properties
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Michel Tielemans, Colloidal stability of surfactant-free radiation curable polyurethane dispersions
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Kati Rissa, Effect of kaolin content on structure and functional properties of water-based coatings

Plenary Session: Chemistry

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Rens Hesselmans, Polycarbodiimide crosslinkers
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Fabrizio Micciche, Towards biobased alternatives for VOC and cobalt in alkyd paints
  • 12:00 - 12:30 Rob P. Klaasen, Fast drying cobalt-free high solids alkyd paints
  • 12:30 - 13:00 Bartheld de Ruiter, Two-step curing processes for coating application

Thursday 30 June 2005

Plenary Session: Protection

  • 8:45 - 9:30 Wim J. van Ooij, Novel environmentally friendly coatings for corrosion protection of metals based on silane chemistry
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Adrian Hofland, Increasing the durability of wood by reactive vegetable oils
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Maria  Zielecka, Silicone-containing polymer matrix as protective coating - properties and applications

Plenary Session: Functional

  • 11:00 - 11:45 Petra Uhlman, Surface functionalization by smart coatings: stimuli responsive binary polymer brushes
  • 11:45 - 12:30 Dean C. Webster, Use of high throughput methods in the design of coatings having minimally adhesive surfaces
  • 14:00 - 14:45 Key-Note Lecture, George Pilcher, Challenge 2005 and Beyond: Recognition, Transformation and Profitable Use of Innovative Thinking
  • 14:45 - 15:15 Melinda Wales, Biocatalytic paints and coatings

Plenary Session: Mechanics

  • 15:45 - 16:30 Steve Rimmer, New functional polymers with potential in coating technologies
  • 16:30 - 17:00 Bernd Göbelt, The molecular weight distribution in living polymerization - the narrowwer the better?
  • 17:00 - 17:30 Valerie Carlier, Plasma polymerization techniques: promising possibilities for the paint industry - a literature overview
  • 19:00 - 22:00 Conference Diner

Friday 1 July 2005

Plenary Session: UV

  • 8:45 - 9:30 Christian Decker, High performance UV-cured protective coatings
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Byung K. Kim, Design and properties of UV cured polyyrthane dispersions
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Jurgen P. Stropp, UV curing systems for automotive refinish applications
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Mingwen Tian, Coatings property analysis with AFM techniques

Plenary Session: Various topics

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Ralph Nussbaum, Present and future requirements on furniture coatings - an end users perspective
  • 12:30 - 13:00 Christoph Gurtler, 1K-PU systems revisited: New insights, new blocking agents
  • 13:00 - 13:15 Closing + Awards presentation
  • 13:15 - 14:00 Buffet Lunch