Australian thermal spray researchers (listed below) will discuss challenges and opportunities for bio-engineering applications at the ASM International ITSC 2021 Preview: Virtual Session: “Coatings for Anti-Virus, Bacteria and Fungus Applications.” Professor Christopher Berndt will make the presentation.
Abstract of the presentation:
Thermal spray coating technology has an extended history for various bio-engineering applications, ranging from antibiofouling, biocidal, to orthopedic applications. These thermal spray coatings (TSCs) can be in direct contact with microorganisms, with or in the absence of physiological media and operate under mechanical loads.
In this presentation, we will summaries our collective experience over the past decade working on various bio-engineered TSC coatings that include traditional air plasma spray bioceramic coatings, novel cold sprayed biocomposite coatings, as well as solution precursor plasma spraying of transition metal-substituted biomedical coatings.
We will highlight fundamental links between TSC coating’s roughness topology, microstructure, elemental composition, and chemical phases with important potential properties of biocompatibility and/or antimicrobial. Our studies have highlighted several knowledge gaps that raise critical scientific propositions. For example; manufacturing methods can create surface architectures that either promote or inhibit cellular growth. This fundamental understanding is driving our frontier research towards new applications that will employ thermal spray manufacturing. The challenges and risks are great; but so are the opportunities and rewards.
Authors: Duy Q. Pham, Sandy Liao, Noppakun Sanpo, Peter Kingshott, Christopher C. Berndt, V.K. Truong and Andrew S.M. Ang
Institutions: Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials (SEAM) Training Centre, Melbourne AUSTRALIA Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne AUSTRALIA RMIT University, Melbourne AUSTRALIA Innovative Bioengineering Training Centre, Sydney AUSTRALIA Abstract:
ITSC 2021 Preview: Virtual Session
“Coatings for Anti-Virus, Bacteria and Fungus Applications”
Thursday, June 18, 2020 – 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. ET
