Overview of Biofilm and its evaluation technique – an approach from the viewpoint of surface engineering
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Overview of Biofilm and its evaluation technique – an approach from the viewpoint of surface engineering
Fri, 09/09/2016 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Speaker:
Prof Hideyuki Kanematsu
Affiliation:
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College, Japan
Synopsis:
The sticky matters formed on materials surfaces are biofilm in most cases. The inhomogeneous thin film-like matters derived from bacteria have brought about many industrial and engineering problems such as infectious problems of medical instruments, hygiene issues in food and sanitary accommodations industries, corrosion phenomena in various environments, scales of various pipes in heat exchange systems, marine structures etc. Research and Development to solve those problems will need the appropriate evaluation techniques from the viewpoint of engineering. However, the topic is still investigated. In this talk, biofilm will be overviewed first of all and then, the effort and investigation to establish effective industrial evaluation techniques will be introduced from the viewpoint of surface engineering.
Biography:
Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu, FIMF (a Fellow of IMF) is a full professor of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Suzuka College (Department of Materials Science and Engineering). He is the former Dean of Dept. MS and E, and currently a Deputy President of NIT, Suzuka, Mie, Japan. He has been a researcher in Surface Science and Engineering of Materials. He is interested particularly in the interfacial phenomena between the metallic surface and organism from the environmental science. He holds a B.Eng. (1981), a M.Eng(1983) and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering (1989) all from Nagoya University. He is active members, board members, editorial members of ASM International, National Association for Surface Fishing, the USA (NASF), the Institute of Metal Finishing, UK(IMF) as well as the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA(TMS), American Chemical Society (ACS), the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM) and the Iron & Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ)