Prof. Boccaccini presents invited talk at a Webinar about Electrophoretic Deposition
On 22nd November, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Free Webinar Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD): From Fundamentals to Applications hosted by the journal Nanomaterials and chaired by Dr Fabien Grasset.
Prof. Begoña Ferrari (ICV, Spain) was also a speaker at the webinar. Prof. Boccaccini said: “This was a special event, specially considering the high number of participants and the time available for the Q&A session, which indicates the high interest in electrophoretic deposition as a convenient technique for processing advanced (nano)materials”.
The 7th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2022) was held on 30.10.22 – 03.11.22 in Santa Fe, USA.
Prof. Boccaccini was the chair of the conference with co-chairs Dr. B. Ferrari (Spain), Dr. A. Pascall (USA) and Dr. T. Uchikoshi (Japan). He presented the talk: “Electrophoretic deposition as technique of choice for antibacterial coatings on metallic implants?”
Zoya Hadzhieva, PhD student in our Institute, attended EPD 2022 and presented both an oral presentation titled “Electrophoretic Deposition of Multicomponent Coatings Incorporating Biopolymers, Phytotherapeutics and Bioactive Glass for Biomedical Applications ” and a poster titled “Electrophoretic deposition of zein/bioactive glass composite coatings doped with F and Cu on titanium for biomedical applications”.
Asim Muhammad Akhtar, PhD student, attended online and presented the talk: “Electrofabrication and Characterization of Multifunctional, Asymmetric Bilayer Films Based on Chitosan‐Gelatin and Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles for Guided Bone Regeneration”.
The next conference of the series, again chaired by Prof. Boccaccini, will be held in 2025 in Spain.
Successful "Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) Webinar 2021"
Chaired by Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, the "Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) Webinar 2021" was held on 17th November with sponsorship of Engineering Conferences International (ECI).
The webinar was co-chaired by Dr. Begona Ferrari (Spain), Dr. Andrew Pascall (USA) and Dr. Tetsuo Uchikoshi (Japan).
Eight invited speakers presented the latest results and advances in the field of EPD, for a wide range of applications including nanostructured funtional films, semiconductors, solid oxide cells, biomedical coatings, electro-fabrication and catalyitic materials.
The next conference of the series is planed to be in-presence in Sante Fe, USA, on Oct. 30- Nov. 3, 2022 (EPD 2022).
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Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes: new review paper in International Materials Reviews
The review paper "Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes: recent progress and remaining challenges" [1] has been published in Open Access mode in International Materials Reviews.
This is a very comprehensive review of the literature in the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), covering CNT suspensions for EPD, EPD deposit microstructure and properties as well as the wide range of applications of CNT structures obtained by EPD. (Image: Fig. 1 from ref. [1]).
[1] Atiq Ur Rehman, M., et al., Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes: recent progress and remaining challenges, Int. Mater. Rev. (in press).
Two papers on EPD of chitosan based biomedical coatings published in Electrochimica Acta
Two papers on electrophoretic deposition (EPD) co-authored by members of the Institute of Biomaterials_, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, have been recently published in the journal Electrochimica Acta. The papers are part of the special issue ISE 2018 (69th Annual ISE Meeting, Bologna, Italy), where these papers were presented at Symposium 12: Electrophoretic Deposition of Functional Coatings: from Materials Science to Biotechnology which was chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Begona Ferrari (ICV, Madrid, Spain) and Dr. Carmen Galassi (ISTEC, Italy). The results of these two investigations confirm the versatility of EPD in the production of bioactive composite coatings for biomedical applications, in both cases utilizing chitosan as the biocompatible polymer component of such coatings.
[1] S. Heise et al., Electrophoretic deposition of gelatine nanoparticle/chitosan coatings, _Electrochimica Acta 307 (2019) 318-325
[2] A. Pawlik, et al., Fabrication and characterization of electrophoretically deposited chitosan-hydroxyapatite composite coatings on anodic titanium dioxide layers, _Electrochimica Acta 307 (2019) 465-473
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEXT EPD CONFERENCE: Electrophoretic Deposition VII: Fundamental and Applications, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, November 8-13, 2020
Engineering Conferences International has announced the organization of the 7th International Conferences on Electrophoretic Deposition: Electrophoretic Deposition VII: Fundamentals and Applications, to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, on November 8-13, 2020. Professor Boccaccini will be the chairman of the conference, and Dr. Begoña Ferrari (Spain), Dr. Andrew J. Pascall (USA), and Dr. Tetsuo Uchikoshi (Japan) will act as co-chairs. The Call for Abstracts will be published later in 2019.
Review on EPD of chitosan composite coatings published in Progress in Materials Science
The review paper "Electrophoretic deposition of chitosan-based composite coatings for biomedical applications: A review" [1], co-authored by: Egemen Avcu, Fatih E. Baştan, Hasan Z. Abdullah, Muhammad A. Ur Rehman, Yasemin Yıldıran Avcu and Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been published in the high IF journal: Progress in Materials Science: The review covers comprehensively the growing research field of chitosan-based composite coatings developed by electrophoretic deposition (EPD), with emphasis in EPD parameters, chitosan based suspensions for EPD, properties and applications of the produced coatings.
Symposium on Electrophoretic Deposition at ISE 2018 in Bologna
Prof. Boccaccini coordinated the symposium "Electrophoretic Deposition of Functional Coatings: from Materials Science to Biotechnology",which was organised in the framework of the 69th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry , held in Bologna, Italy, on 2-7 September 2018. The symposium co-organisers were Prof. Begona Ferraris (Institute of Ceramics and Glass, Madrid, Spain) (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) and Dr. Carmen Galassi (Italian National Research Council, Italy). The symposium featured 16 oral presentations and several posters, with a very international representation and included keynote, invited and contributed talks (speakers pictured). Selected contributions will be published in the ISE 2018 special issue in the journal Electrochimica Acta
Highly cited paper on EPD in J. European Ceramic Society
The review paper "Electrophoretic deposition: From traditional ceramics to nanotechnology " is the second most cited paper published in the _Journal of the European Ceramic Society in the last 10 years, according to the data base SCOPUS . The paper covers comprehensively the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of nanomaterials and, according to Prof. Boccaccini: "the actuality of the paper indicates the increasing application of EPD in nanotechnology, researchers discover the enormous versatility of the technique to manipulate nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, nanofibres, etc., and to achieve their assembly in functional (macro)structures. The review was written when Prof. Boccaccini was Professor at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London (UK), in collaboration with Dr. Ilaria Corni (former PhD student at Imperial College, currently at University of Southampton, UK) and _Prof. Mary Ryan (Department of Materials, Imperial College). In the same data base, the paper ranks 10th in the list of most cited papers ever when "Electrophoretic Deposition" is used as keyword.
EPD in the cover of the journal "Coatings"
The journal "Coatings" published recently the special issue "Electrophoretic Deposition", co-edited by Dr. B. Ferrari, Dr. L. Besra and Prof. A. R. Boccaccini. A picture created by Laura Ramos Rivera (PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) was chosen for the cover of the journal.
ECS Transactions Vol. 82, No. 1: "Electrophoretic Deposition VI" published by the Electrochemical Society
ECS Transactions Vol. 82, No. 1, "Electrophoretic Deposition VI", the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2017) held in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 1 – 6, 2017, has been published by the Electrochemical Society. Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, the EPD 2017 conference chairman, was one of the editors of the volume together with Prof. J. H. Dickerson (USA), Dr. B. Ferrari (Spain) and Dr. T. Uchikoshi (Japan). The peer refereed manuscripts included in this special issue cover several areas of applications of EPD, from nanotechnology and functional coatings to biomaterials, and reflect the variety of topics that were presented at the EPD 2017 conference, which was sponsored by Engineering Conference International (ECI), and endorsed by The Electrochemical Society, the European Ceramic Society, the American Ceramic Society, the German Ceramic Society, and the Spanish Ceramic Society.
Successful 6th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2017)
The 6th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2017) was held on 1-6 October 2017 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Researchers from academia and industry coming from more than 15 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, presenting in oral and poster contributions their latest results and discussing the basics and fundamentals of EPD and its applications in a wide range of technology fields, including energy and functional materials, nanomaterials, ceramic composites, biomaterials and functional coatings. The final program of the conference can be seen here. This 6th edition of the EPD conferences series sponsored by Engineering Conferences Internationalwas endorsed by the American Ceramic Society, the Electrochemical Society, the European Ceramic Society, the German Ceramics Society and the Spanish Society for Ceramics and Glasses. A student contest took place sponsored by the Journal of the European Ceramic Society Trust in which PhD students from different countries participated. The conference chairman was Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), conference co-chairs were Prof. J. Dickerson (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), Prof. O. van der Biest (Kath. University of Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. T. Uchikoshi (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan) (in the photograph below). During the conference, also a symposium to honor co-chair Prof. O. van der Biest was held. The next conference in the series, EPD 2020, will be held in USA. In addition to Prof. A. R. Boccaccini, our Institute was represented at this conference by Ms Svenja Heise, Ms Laura Ramos and Mr Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman (PhD students), who presented poster and oral contributions. Moreover Mr Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman obtained the second prize in the student contest while Svenja Heise received an award as the PhD student with the most active participation at the conference.
*Special Issue on "Electrophoretic Deposition" in journal Coatings: Call for Papers *
Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini is guest editing a special issue on "Electrophoretic Deposition" in the open access journal "_Coatings_" (LINK: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings ). Co-editors of the special issue are Prof. L. Besra ( Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Orissa, India) and Prof. B. Ferrari (Institute of Ceramic and Glass, Madrid, Spain). The Call for Papers for this special issue is available _here_ . The deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 June 2017.
Recent paper in Langmuir presents new model to describe electrophoretic deposition
A recent paper [1] by Brian Giera and co workers of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States,published in the journal Langmuir, presents a predictive mesoscale model that computes inter-particle interactions explicitly to provide previously inaccessible information about colloidal packing and deposit morphology within empirically relevant EPD systems.
[1] Giera, B., Zepeda-Ruiz, L. A., Pascall, A. J., and Weisgraber, T. H., Mesoscale Particle-Based Model of Electrophoretic Deposition,_Langmuir (2017) in press_. (LINK: _http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b04010 _)
Electro and Electrophoretic Deposition Symposium at International Society of Electrochemistry Annual Meeting in The Hague
The 67th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) was held on 21 - 26 August 2016 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Prof.Boccaccini chaired the organisation of symposium 14 (S.14): "Combined Electro and Electrophoretic Deposition for Advanced Materials Synthesis"in collaboration with Dr. Begona Ferrari, CSIS Madrid, Spain, Prof. Arjan Mol, Delft University of Technology, the Netherland, Prof. Marcel J.Rost, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Prof. Mary P. Ryan, Imperial College London, UK and Prof. Giovanni Zangari, University of Virginia,USA. The symposium was sponsored by ISE Division 4, Electrochemical Materials Science, and featured keynote and invited speakers as well ascontributed talks and posters. The Erlangen Institute of Biomaterials was represented by Svenja Heise (PhD student) (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini) who presented the poster: "Development of a biodegradable natural polymer/bioactive glass coating for Mg alloys using electrophoretic deposition". A second poster from Erlangen was presented by Prof. Boccaccini, entitled: "Electrophoretic and electrodeposition in biofabrication approaches". In the pictures Prof. Boccaccini with Prof. Sanna Virtanen (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg) (Keynote speaker in Symposium 13), Prof. G. Zangari (Chair elect, ISE Division 4). In the other picture Prof. Boccaccini with Dr. Begona Ferrari, Prof. Claudine Filiâtre, and Dr. Laxmidhar Besra (co-organiser, invited and keynote speakers, respectively, in the electrophoretic deposition session of S.14). The program of the conference is available here
New EPD paper from Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro
The paper : "Unleashing the Full Sustainable Potential of Thick Films of Lead-Free Potassium Sodium Niobate (K0.5Na0.5NbO3) by Aqueous Electrophoretic Deposition" by Amit Mahajan, Rui Pinho, Morgane Dolhen, M. Elisabete Costa, and Paula M. Vilarinho has been just published in Langmuir
Amit Mahajan, Rui Pinho, Morgane Dolhen, M. Elisabete Costa, and Paula M. Vilarinho, Unleashing the Full Sustainable Potential of Thick Films of Lead-Free Potassium Sodium Niobate (K0.5Na0.5NbO3) by Aqueous Electrophoretic Deposition, Langmuir 2016, 32 (21), pp 5241–5249.
Prof. Paula Vilarinho
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Review on EPD of graphene-related materials published in Progress in Materials Science
The review paper: "Electrophoretic deposition of graphene-related materials: A review of the fundamentals", a collaboration between co-authors Mani Diba, Dr. Derrick W. H. Fam, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and _Prof. Milo S. P. Shaffer has been just published in Progress in Materials Science
[1] M. Diba, D. W. H. Fam, A. R. Boccaccini, M. S. P. Shaffer, Electrophoretic deposition of graphene-related materials: A review of the fundamentals,
Progress in Materials Science (available on line 16 March 2016).
Special Issue "Electrophoretic Deposition of Ceramics: Fundamentals and Applications" published in J. Europ. Ceram. Soc.
The special issue "Electrophoretic Deposition of Ceramics: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited by Aldo R. Boccaccini, Begoña Ferrari, James H. Dickerson and Carmen Galassi, has been published in J. Europ. Ceram. Soc., volume 36, issue 2, pages 263-388 (January 2016). This special issue in J. Europ. Ceram. Soc. collects papers written by experts in the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) applied to ceramic materials.The manuscripts capture research efforts of recognised groups in the field of EPD, many of which attended the Fifth International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals and Applications (EPD 2014) held on 5th–10th October 2014 in Hernstein, Austria. The editors of this special issue hope that the collection of papers will attract further interest in the field of EPD as processing technique for ceramic materials.
Focus Issue published in Journal of the Electrochemical Society
The Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES) Focus Issue on Electrophoretic Deposition, co-edited by Prof. Jay H. Dickerson (Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, USA) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been recently published. This focus issue of JES was inspired by the research reported during presentations at the Fifth International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals and Applications (EPD-2014) held in Schloss Hernstein, Austria, October 5-10, 2014, with additional contributions from prominent researchers involved in different aspects of the fundamentals and applications of EPD worldwide.
Key Engineering Materials volume on Electrophoretic Deposition published
The volume of Key Engineering Materials (vol. 654, 2015) containing papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Electrophoretic Depositon (Hernstein, Austria, 5-10 October 2014) (Chairman: Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published: Key Engineering Materials, vol. 654, Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals and Applications V, Editors: A.R. Boccaccini, J.H. Dickerson, B. Ferrari, O. Van der Biest and T. Uchikoshi, 2015. The 46 papers are grouped in the following sections: I. Fundamentals of EPD; II. Novel Approaches and Modeling; III. Functional Films and Deposits; IV. EPD in Ceramic Processing; V. EPD of Biomaterials and Biological Entities; VI. Nanostructured Materials and Films; VII. Polymers and Composite Coatings; VIII. Advanced Experimental Techniques.
UK Institute of Materials Finishing Fair, 9-10 June 2015
IMF2015 is a conference organised by the UK based Institute of Materials Finishing (IMF) with participation of EPD community member Dr Peter Hope and including two presentations about electrophoretic deposition from EPD international network members, Dr Janet Hope and Dr Begoña Ferrari. The program of the conference is available.
New EPD paper from University of Aveiro
"Electrophoretic deposition on nonconducting substrates: a demonstration of the application to microwave devices".
By:Vilarinho, Paula M; Fu, Zhi; Wu, Aiying; Axelsson, Anna; Kingon, Angus I
The paper reports a novel method to carry out electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of thick films on nonconducting substrates, overcoming the otherwise usual requirement of having conducting or partially conducting substrates for application of EPD.
Electrophoretic Deposition News from Slovenia
Dr Marko Soderžnik, working on the FP7 EU project entitled “Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Options (ROMEO)”, which is coordinated by Prof. Spomenka Kobe, substantially contributed to the success of the team at JOZEF STEFAN INSTITUTE (JSI) in Slovenia. Fundamental research was the basis for a highly innovative technology, developed at JSI. The technology is based on electrophoretic deposition and a sophisticated heat-treatment method for selective diffusion along the grain boundaries of the magnet. This technology has resulted in the project’s ambitious target magnetic properties being achieved. The process is now in the testing stage in industrial partners. The final result will be high-energy magnets with the minimum content of valuable heavy rare earths. These magnets will be used in a prototype demonstrator motors for wind turbines as part of the ROMEO project.
New review paper by I. Zhitomirsky et al.
A recent paper by the group of Prof. Igor Zhitomirsky of Materials Science & Engineering Department, McMaster University in Canada, published in RSC Advances (Ata, M. S., et al., A review of new methods of surface chemical modification, dispersion and electrophoretic deposition of metal oxide particles, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 22716 ), reviews bio-inspired chemical approaches developed for the surface modification, dispersion and electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of metal oxide particles.
EPD in industrial applications
Successful 5th International Conference on EPD held in Austria
The 5th International conference on EPD was held on 6-10 October 2014 in Schloss Hernstein, Austria. More than 85 participants, including senior researchers from academia and industry as well as students coming from more than 24 counties attended the conference, including 6 Keynote speakers, presenting their latest results and discussing the basics and fundamentals of EPD and its applications in a wide range of technology fields, including energy materials, nanomaterials, ceramic composites, biomaterials and functional coatings. The program of the conference can be seen here. This 5th edition of the EPD conferences series sponsored by Engineering Conferences International was endorsed by the American Ceramic Society, the Electrochemical Society and the European Ceramic Society. A student contest took place sponsored by the Journal of the European Ceramic Society Trust in which15 PhD students participated. The conference chairman was Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), conference co-chairs were Prof. J. Dickerson (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), Prof. O. van der Biest (Kath. University of Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. T. Uchikoshi (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan) (in the photograph).
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Special issue on Electrophoretic Deposition of Ceramic Materials
The special issue on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) of Ceramic Materials in the journal Advances in Applied Ceramics (vol. 113, issue 1, Jan. 2014) co-edited by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) and Dr. B. Ferrari (Institute of Ceramics and Glass, Madrid, Spain) has been just published. The introductory note to the special issue is available here. This special issue includes nine invited papers which reflect the wide application potential of EPD for shaping ceramic materials for several applications, such as structural components, ceramic membranes, ionic conductor layers, mesoporous structures and bioactive coatings.
Special Section on Electrophoretic Deposition published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B
The special section "Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentas and Applications"
co.edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) and Prof. James H. Dickerson (Vanderbilt University, USA) has been published on 14th February 2013 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. It can be seen here: http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpcbfk/current
EPD news from Madrid 
The research group of Dr. B. Ferrari at the Institute for Ceramic and Glass (CSIC) in Madrid has proved the full yield of the EPD process for suspensions with solid loading as low as 1 g/L, as shown in the attached video. The suspensions are mixtures of Ni(OH)2 and carbon black (80/20 v/v) prepared in ethanol and deoinized water used in the fabrication of anodes for Li-Batteries (A. Caballero et al., Journal Power Sources, 238 (2013) 366). The elevated suspension stability and adequate conductivity lead to the complete deposition of the suspended powder. Related results are carefully described in the doctoral thesis of Dr. Sandra Cabanas-Polo “Ultrasound assisted synthesis of Ni-based nanostructures”, supervised by Dr. A.J. Sanchez-Herencia and Dr. B. Ferrari.
New book on Electrophoretic Deposition
This book is the first and only reference highlighting the basic research, materials science and engineering of the electrophoretic deposition of nanomaterials providing a comprehensive overview of contemporary bacis research, emerging technology and commercial and industrial applications associated with the electrophoretic deposition of nanomaterials.
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