Co-organisation of the ZVO Surface Days 2025 in Berlin
From 24.09.2025-26.09.2025, five scientists from the Chair of Materials and Surface Technology (WOT) took part in the ZVO Surface Days to present their current research results to an interested audience of industry and science experts. For the first time, four students from Chemnitz University of Technology were also invited to take part in the conference as part of the programme to promote young industry members.
After the opening by ZVO CEO Jörg Püttbach, several honours and award ceremonies as well as presentations by member of the Bundestag Vanessa Zobel and transformation psychologist Dr Carl Naughton, the compact, five-part lecture programme with 95 presentations got underway. With 570 participants, the largest German-speaking event in the surface technology sector focused on process monitoring and process quality, bath and surface analysis, digitalisation and AI in surface technology, sustainability and energy efficiency as well as functional coatings. In addition to participating in the high-calibre lecture programme, the WOT team maintained and expanded the dialogue with industry partners at the accompanying trade fair.
On the morning of the first day of lectures, Dr Franziska Bocklisch discussed the question of how the human-centred digitalisation of galvanic processes between empirical knowledge and measurement data can succeed. To this end, she presented a digitalisation cycle that leads from problem analysis to knowledge models and AI modelling. In an interview with the industry magazine „Galvanotechnik“ (2025, issue 10, p. 1322), Dr Bocklisch emphasises the importance of cooperation between humans and AI and calls for a systematic and cool-headed approach to the development and introduction of AI processes.
In presentations given in English, Mohammad Dodangi and Nisha Poonia reported on the chemical and galvanic copper coating of cell wax structures for the production of heat exchangers and storage tanks as well as the development of Fe-Cr-Ni dispersion coatings of high thickness for wear and corrosion protection. These topics are representative of innovative coating and process developments at the Chair of Materials and Surface Technology in the field of galvanic coating technology. Dr Roy Morgenstern will address another of the professorship's key topics, the plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) of construction materials, with his lecture on the challenges of PEO of high-strength steels and the solution approach of combined and multi-stage process control in different electrolytes.
In addition to participating in the lectures on current research topics of the professorship, Prof Dr Thomas Lampke and Dr Roy Morgenstern moderated sessions focusing on energy efficiency and carbon foot printing as well as process monitoring and product quality. In addition, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und Oberflächentechnik e.V. (DGO) offered young scientists the opportunity to exchange experiences with other students, doctoral candidates and young industry members at an evening event. Nisha Poonia, Mohammad Dodangi and the students from Chemnitz University of Technology took part in the event on behalf of WOT.
The professorship would like to thank the speakers and students for the opportunity to participate in the ZVO Surface Days 2025 and is delighted with the extremely positive response.
Image: TUC members at the ZVO Surface Days 2025: Prof Dr Thomas Lampke (1st from left), WOT scientists and TUC students
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