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1. Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
2. Hart-Tech Ltd., 45 Niciarniana Street, 92-320 Lodz, Poland
Interests: heat treatment; vacuum heat treatment; carburizing; nitriding; sulphonitriding; tribology; low friction layers and coatings; hydrogen storage; graphene


Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
Interests: materials science; surface engineering; coatings; ceramics; biomaterials; composite coatings; photocatalytic coatings; nanomaterials; protective coatings; deposition methods; sol-gel
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1. ISEP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
2. INEGI - Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: manufacturing processes; CDV; PVD; coating; numerical simulation; material properties; microhardness; microstructures; hard coatings; wear, surface integrity
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Department of General Chemistry, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: coatings for medical applications; titanium and titanium alloy surface nanostructuration; energy storage devices (capacitors, batteries, fuel cells); corrosion and corrosion protection; electrochemical techniques for decontamination
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Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials, ISMN–CNR, Palermo, c/o Department ChiBioFarAm, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: materials chemistry; green chemistry; nanotechnology; environmental remediation; advanced materials; functional coating; colloidal nanoparticles; smart and hi-tech textiles; (waste)water treatment; multifunctional hybrid materials and nanocomposites; sensing technologies; bio-based blended polymers; circular economy
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Univerzita obrany v Brne, Brno, Czech Republic.
Interests: Surface treatment of metallic materials; Engineering materials; Flexibility and strength; nanoindentation

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Department of Natural Resources Engineering and Environment, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
Interests: cultural heritage; cleaning; consolidation; water-repelling; tempera paints; non-invasive techniques
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Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, 9 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119083, Singapore
Interests: biomaterials; 3D printing; molecular biology; biomechanics; corrosion; tisue engineering; geriatrics; bone regeneration; biocompatibility
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Interests: plasma at atmospheric pressure; thin films; bio-based materials; materials for the environment; multifunctional coatings

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G.A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ivanovo, Russia
Interests: chemical technology of fibrous materials; hydrophobic coating fabrics and the use of fluoropolymers and fluoroligomers
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Institute of Design Science and Basic Component, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, Shaanxi, China
Interests: biotribology, drag reduction technology and surface functionalization (texturing and biocompatible coatings)
Metallurgical Engineering, Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec (UQAC), Main Building, Office P4-5050, Chicoutimi (Quebec), Canada
Interests: Development of Advanced Metals and Alloys for Engineering Applications; Castings Design and Analysis; Material characteristics and quality performance; Failure Analysis; Advanced Thermal Treatments (Fluidization and Heat Transfers); Powder metallurgy; Production and Characterization of Friction Resisting Composite Materials
Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Electronics, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: high pressure non-thermal plasma processing of materials (especially powders, textiles and wood); plasma activation; plasma coating; plasma assisted ceramic processing; functional coatings for non-thermal plasma generators.

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Amirkhanov Institute of Physics, Dagestan Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 367003 Makhachkala, Russia
Interests: thin films technology; atomic layer deposition (ALD); magnetron sputtering; pulsed laser deposition (PLD); bismuth ferrite; aluminum nitride; silicon carbide; graphene; perovskite heterostructures; surface modification; interfaces of materials; functional materials; topological materials; spintronics
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School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: catalytic materials; nano-structured catalyst materials; catalysis of sustainable energy
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Department of High-Temperature and Functional Coatings, Institute of Materials Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 51147 Cologne, Germany
Interests: energy storage and conversion; supercapacitors; batteries; functional coatings and solid-state electrolytes materials; flexible electrochemical energy storage devices; water splitting; impedance spectroscopy; temperature and frequency dependence dielectric properties
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Materials Research Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University ofTechnology, Gliwice, Poland
Interests: corrosion resistance; anticorrosion layers; materials in dental prosthetics


Centro de Física da Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: Physics; Plasmonics; Nanoparticles; Gold; Oxynitrides; Materials Science; Materials Engineering; Materials Characterization; TEM; SEM; XRD; AFM; Optical properties; Gas sensors; Thin films; Magnetron Sputtering; Data Science; Image processing; Signal processing.

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Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology Department, Pharmacy Faculty, Campus Vida s/n, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain
Interests: food contact materials; food safety; migration; risk assessment; food packaging materials; coatings; analytical chemistry; active food packaging; bioactive compounds; food analysis
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Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Náutica y Marítima, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Interests: asphalt mixtures; bitumen; pavement; life cycle assessment
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NASA Goddard Space Center, Catholic University of America, Mail Code 66, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: development of optical coatings for different applications (such as space astronomy, EUV lithography, and synchrotron radiation) in the UV or shorter wavelengths; optical characterization of materials; modeling of the optical properties of materials; metamaterials; polarization; grating interferometry

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Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Deaprtment of Furniture Design, 60-624 Poznań, Poland
Interests: wood products; furniture and wood-based panels technology; woodworking; wood dust creation; wood dust filtration

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Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Functional Interfaces Research Group (304)1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2., Hungary
Interests: antibiofouling; contact angle and wetting; functional interfaces; coatings for biosensors; atomic force microscopy
Laboratorio Arvedi di Diagnostica Non-Invasiva, CISRiCUniversità degli Studi di Pavia
Interests: musical instruments; varnish; pigments; wood treatment; violin making; cleaning; heritage science; non-invasive techniques; imaging; cultural heritage

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Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Karelian Research Centre of RAS · Institute of Geology, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Interests: Carbon Nanomaterials; Shungite nanocarbon; Nanoparticles; Composites; Hybrid Materials

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Laboratory of Microstructuring and Submicron Devices of Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian academy of Sciences, 117218 Moscow, Russia
Interests: PECVD; ALD; PEALD coatings and surface engineering for devices of nanoelectronics

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: mechanics of soft materials; elastic instabilities; micromechanics; 3D-printing of soft materials; soft biological and bio-inspired materials; acoustic/elastic metamaterials; waves in soft matter; active materials
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Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli studi “Roma Tre”, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: nanoparticles; biocides; cultural heritage; consolidants; raman spectroscopy
National Research Council of Italy, Istitute of Applied Science and Intelligent System Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy
Interests: PVD coating,; Selective Solar Absorber; solar energy; emissivity measurement; optical properties; solar thermal energy
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