General presentation > Main topics

• Additive manufacturing,
• Arts and surfaces,
• Biocompatible coatings for medical devices,
• Biomimetics,
• Characterization of engineered surfaces (optical methods, multi-scale indentation...),
• Dynamic processes,
• Functional, conversion and chromogenic coatings,
• Influence of surface treatments on fatigue behaviour,
• Ion implantation of surfaces,
• Laser treatments,
• Modelling and simulation of coating microstructures,
• Novel surface modification techniques,
• Plasma assisted surface treatments,
• Powder material,
• Residual stresses,
• Severe plastic deformation processes,
• Surface modification and coatings for tribology,
• Surface treatments of fibers in composite materials,
• Thermal and cold spray,
• Thermochemical surface engineering,
• Thin film by PVD, CVD, and ALD,

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