The 22nd International Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) Symposium kick-off event will be the short course “Coating technology and coating science” presented by Ted Lightfoot on Sunday, Sept 8th . This 3-hour short course will provide background on the fundamentals of coating and drying processes that are common to technical sessions during the ISCST Symposium. Please see the short course abstract and instructor biography below.
Link to Short Course Page
See ISCST Symposium agenda here: Agenda Overview
Title: Coating technology and coating science
Presented by Dr. E.J. (Ted) Lightfoot, Ted Lightfoot, LLC
Registration Cost: $50
Sunday, September 8, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Abstract:
The 22nd International Coating Science and Technology Symposium offers a unique opportunity to see how coating science can benefit practitioners of the art of coating and drying. However, many practitioners have a hard time assessing scientific results and putting them to practical use. This short course provides basic context for understanding for the kinds of results that will be presented during the symposium. It includes a brief survey of common coating methods being discussed, a review of the physics of coating and drying and how that relates to the structures of the common theoretical approaches to modeling the coating and drying process.
Instructor Biography:
Ted Lightfoot spent 35 years with DuPont and DOW-Dupont making photographic film, solvent cast films, optical films and other proprietary developments. He was the first American to be named an Industrial Fellow at the University of Minnesota Coating Fundamentals program was a founding director of the ISCST as well as a founder and former leader of DuPont’s internal coating network. He retired from DuPont in 2019 and started Ted Lightfoot LLC, a consulting company in film casting, coating, drying, and laminating.
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