Project-related activities
Five HARMoNIC members took part in the external page Wetting Dynamics conference in Bonn (Germany) on 28th-30th September 2020.
external page Science Stories tells the story of HARMoNIC
The HARMoNIC project was featured in the first edition of Science Stories for 2020. In addition to the article, describing the first review meeting of HARMoNIC, the story includes an interview with Prof. Dr. Dimos Poulikakos, in which he reveals the importance of EU funding for research. The article is available in external page English and external page German.
Science Stories is a journal, published by EU GrantsAccess, and presenting a manifold of examples on the intensive cooperation of ETH Zurich and Univeristy of Zurich with European Union H2020 funding schemes.
The external page 45th International Conference on Micro & Nano Engineering took place on 23rd-26th Septmeber 2019 in Rhodes, Greece. The conference was organized by one of the HARMoNIC consoritum members, NCSR-D, with 4 members of the team acting as conference chairs (Gogolides, Tserepi, Constantoudis, Ellinas), and another one (Milionis, ETHZ) on the international advisory committee.
Divided into four main topics, the conference included a session on a topic directly related and extremely important to the HARMoNIC project: Nanofabrication for Functionality session, concentrating on nanofabrication processes for functional surfaces, such as superhydrophobic surfaces, membranes, optical surfaces.
During the conference, the HARMoNIC team gave a presentation: Fully Organic and Biodegradable, Cellulose-based, Superhydrophobic Materials, A. Milionis, C. S.Sharma, R. Hopf, M. Uggowitzer, I. S.Bayer, D. Poulikakos.
Attended conferences - inputs as invited speakers
1) Rational surface nanoengineering for dropwise condensation and antifogging, D. Poulikakos, 694. external page WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “Wetting on Soft or Microstructured Surfaces”, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 11th - 13th April 2019
2) Rational Surface Nanoengineering for Condensation—From Power Generation to Sunlight-Enabled Antifogging of Transparent Materials, D. Poulikakos, external page 2019 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 22nd - 26th April 2019
3) Lotus Leaf Inspired, Fully Organic and Biodegradable Materials, A. Milionis, C. S. Sharma, R. Hopf, M. Uggowitzer, I. S. Bayer, D. Poulikakos, external page 33rd International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies, Naples, Italy, 26th - 28th June 2019
4) Precise and scalable nanomanufacturing of surfaces, Manish K. Tiwari, external page Norwegian NanoSymposium 2019, Trondheim, Norway, 16th-17th October 2019
5) Towards high-speed impacts on engineered surfaces, Manish K. Tiwari, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Bath, 24th-26th April 2019
6) All-organic superhydrophobic coatings with mechanochemical robustness and liquid impalement resistance, Manish K. Tiwari, external page Future Dialogue 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22nd-23rd November 2018
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 801229