INDUSTRIAL COATING RESEARCH (We have no plan to publish in this year. )

Audience:

Practicing and research engineers of wet coating operations.

Aims:

To collect and to provide fundamental knowledge of coating operations for practitioners and to help them see common aspects of many individual fact observed in their daily work.
To help coating engineers in different technical backgrounds, industrial field and countries, exchange different ideas on coating to stimulate the cross-fertilization of ideas and the further development of the field.

Scope:

Any subject concerning wet coating operations:

• Film thickness and transfer ratio
• Ribbing and sea-shore phenomena
• Air entrainment and oscillation of a contact line
• Pick-up and transfer irregularities
• Instabilities of coating beads and thin-film flows
• Transient characteristics and sensitivities to external disturbances
• Centrifugal spraying and atomization due to film splitting in coating process
• Leveling and sagging
• Effects of surfactants, rheological properties of liquids and surface characteristics of liquids and solids
• Effects of inhomogeneous dispersion, mixed solvents and orientation of particles
• Any subject about coating defects

Type and Size:

Type of Contents are interpretative review articles, research papers, communications and technical notes, abstract and literature reference services. Articles are printed bilingually both in English and Japanese in parallel, and the typical issue is more than 100 pages in B5 size.

Editors of the past issues:

• Dr. Roger Burley, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS UK
• Dr. Dennis J. Coyle, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY 14652 USA
• Prof. Franz Durst, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, D-8520 Germany
• Dr. Kimiaki Miyamoto, Fuji Photo Film Company, Minamiashigara, Kanagawa, 250 JAPAN
• Dr. Kitaro Adachi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804 JAPAN

Subscription Information:

The journals are to be distributed to the special members of the Coating Research Association free of charge. The annual special membership dues amount in a year to \10,000(Japanese yen) or its equivalent in foreign currency. Anyone, who wishes to become a special member, is required to take contact with:

Dr. Masato Yamamura
The Chairman of the Coating Research Association, Japan
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 804 Japan
Fax. +(81)+93-884-3300 / e-mail: yamamura<at>che.kyutech.ac.jp

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On "Industrial Coating Research (ICR)"

Wet coating is an important, modern technology to modify solid surfaces in various ways to change inexpensive materials into valuable products. However, coating practitioners are daily forced to repeat over and over again similar coating tests, because their experiences have not accumulated on a rational basis. Thus, it has been urgently demanded for coating engineers to establish a rational basis of coating practice as one of the key production technologies.

The COATING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION in Japan has struggled to answer this demand since 1987. To publish ICR is our formal action to exchange useful information of coating products and practice with outside coating engineers. The foundation of ICR was motivated by our expectation that communication in the relevant field would increase much further by the existence of a suitable journal. The international Symposium on Mechanics of This-Film Coating sponsored by AIChE, The International Coating Science and Technology Symposium and The European Coating Symposium are important meetings for technical communication in the relevant field. However, due to the language barriers encountered by foreigners and the time limits imposed at meetings, it seems very difficult to make deeper communication at those venues. The ICR is designed to bear a different function for better communication as a complete to meetings on coating technologies.

The details of ICR on audience, aims and scope can be seen at the inside of the front cover. Roughly speaking, however, the main role of ICR is to help product engineers engaging in wet coating operations recognized common aspects of many fragmentary, individual facts observed in their daily work so that they may improve such an unpleasant state of the art of coating practice as described above. This roll will be filled by keeping the following three key points in the journal.

1. Easily understandable: All articles should be concise and understandable even for readers of no special background. Physical meanings of calculated and experimental results for interesting coating phenomena should be discussed, and related mathematics should preferably be seen in reference papers.
2. Practical and useful: Articles should be not only directly related to wet coating practice, but also concerned with common aspects of many individual facts encountered in daily practical work.
3. Good communication: Main articles are to be written by the most appropriate specialists and experienced practitioners on coating. Comments directed to core subjects of the main articles and referring to their usefulness, and interesting related materials will also be collected powerfully from appropriate specialists and readers. Those comments are to be published in short papers together with those full-length papers.

The ICR stands for a communication journal connecting friendly coating engineers with different technical backgrounds from different industrial fields and different countries. The editors would like strongly to ask a great support to ICR as readers and authors from many people in the relevant field all over the world.

Masato Yamamura (Assistant Professor)
The Chairman of the Coating Research Association, Japan
Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu Institute of Technology,
1-1, Sensuichou, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804-8550 Japan
FAX. +(81)-93-884-3300 / e-mail: yamamura<at>che.kyutech.ac.jp/

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