WOT successes at the International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC) 2022
After a two-year interruption, the ITSC took place from 4 to 6 May 20222 as a face-to-face event with around 400 participants in Vienna. The WOT was represented by four people (Maximilian Grimm, Thomas Lampke, Thomas Lindner and Bianca Preuß). Current research work was presented to an interested audience of experts in six WOT lectures. One example was the contribution by Bianca Preuß, a young scientist who reported on eutectic high-entropy alloys for the first time (photo top right). Her results met with great interest and positive feedback and open up research opportunities with international partners from industry and research.
The WOT contributions opened up a wide range of discussions on deepening existing and expanding collaborations. Based on the contribution by Bianca Preuß, specific research work was agreed with Professor André McDonald, University of Alberta, Canada, and his team (photo left). In this co-operation, coating materials made of high-entropy alloys are to be jointly researched.
There was particular cause for celebration at the award ceremony for the „Best Paper Award“, where Maximilian Grimm's „Quality assessment of thermal sprayed stainless steel coatings based on polarisation curves with 3.5 % NaCl gel electrolyte“ was honoured (photo bottom right). The WOT team would like to thank the project sponsor ZIM, Central Innovation Programme for SMEs, for the financial support and the project partners Putzier Oberflächen GmbH and JELN Imprägnierung GmbH, who made a decisive contribution to the success of the project. The international recognition shows that WOT research work makes valuable contributions to research into current challenges.
10.6.2022 – Event International ( tobias.mueller@mb… )
