Programme

22 November, Haslett Building

12.00-14.00

Registration
13.30-14.00 

Coffee
14.00-14.15  Welcome
14.15-15.00  KEYNOTE: Carol Featherston, Cardiff University. Composites for the airspace industry
15.00-15.30 Abderrahim Al-Mazouzi, EDF, France. Material challenges in nuclear energy production
15.30-16.00 Sinead Balgobin, EPSRC, UK. Materials Research at the EPSRC
16.00-16.30 Graeme Greaves, University of Huddersfield. MIAMI-2: An in-situ system for investigation of materials in an extreme irradiation environment
16.30-16.45 Coffee
16.45-17.15 Anne Crean, Institute of Physics, UK. Helping physics and physicists
17.15-17.45 Per Eklund, Linkoping University. FunMat II – an industry-academia competence centre for research on coating materials for advanced applications.
17.45-18.30 Tour of the university facilities.

 

23 November, 3M Buckley Innovation Centre

08.30-9.00

Registration, coffee
09.00-09.45

KEYNOTE: Anne Neville, University of Leeds. Understanding the complexities of simulation of wear and corrosion for medical implants
09.45-10.15 Jozef Vleugels, KU Leuven, Belgium. Grain Boundary decoration dental ceramics
10.15-10.45 Mickael Piellard, SAFRAN Tech, France. Safran Tech developments in materials for high performance airspace components
10.45-11.15 Liam Blunt, University of Huddersfield. Water vapour barrier layers on flexible photovoltaics
11.15-11.30  Coffee
11.30-12.00  Thiery Cabioch, University of Poitiers, France. Synthesis and properties of nanometric multilayered MAX phase coatings
12.00-12.30  Sergey Reznik, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia. Development of satellite carbon fibre reinforced plastic antennas
12.30-13.00  Allan Matthews, University of Manchester. Some recent trends and initiatives in the UK materials science and surface engineering research scene
13.00-14.00 Lunch, poster presentations and exhibition
14.00-14.30  Will Vickers, Ionix Advanced Technologies, UK. High temperature ceramics for temperature sensing
15.00-15.30 John Allport, University of Huddersfield, UK.  Challenge in materials for turbochargers
15.30-16.00  Tomasz Liskiewicz, University of Leeds, UK.  Surface Ventures Forum: Functional Surfaces for Industry 4.0
16.00-17.30  Posters and refreshments
19.00  Conference dinner at Huddersfield Town Football Club

 

24 November, 3M Buckley Innovation Centre

08.30-9.00

Registration, coffee
09.00-09.45

KEYNOTE: Ulf Jansson, Uppsala University. High entropy materials – a new concept for extreme environments?
09.45-10.15 Francisco Perez, OTRI, Spain. High temperature corrosion in molten salts and molten salts technology
10.15-10.45 Paul Humphreys, University of Huddersfield. Modification of surfaces relevant to radioactive waste disposal by microbial biofilms
10.45-11.15 John Nunn, National Physical Laboratory, UK. Evaluation of Wear Damage by In situ Real-Time Techniques 
11.15-11.30  Coffee
11.30-12.00  Ben Beake, Micro Materials Ltd, UK. Extreme nanomechanics to 10000 C for high temperature mechanical properties of bulk materials and thin films
12.00-12.30  Alan Harvey, University of Limerick, Ireland. Implanting 2-D materials
12.30-13.00  Emily Aradi, University of Huddersfield, UK. In-situ TEM observation of the response of nanoporous tungsten under He irradiation
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30  Philipp Kiryukhantsev-Korneev, MISIS, Russia. Nanocomposite MeSiBN (Me:  Mo,Zr,Cr,Al,Ti) coatings with high oxidation resistance produced using magnetron sputtering of SHS-cathodes
14.30-15.00 Konstantina Lambrinou, Nuclear Materials Science Institute, Belgium. Compatibility of Nuclear Materials with Corrosive Heavy Liquid Metal Coolants
15.00-15.30  Adam Bevan, University of Huddersfield, UK. Railway as material challenge
15.30-16.00 Kris Kubiak, University of Huddersfield, UK. Roughness and wettability of surfaces in boundary lubricated scuffing wear
16.00-16.30  Closing remarks and coffee