(426g) Addressing Challenges in Industrial R&D Coating

Coating in industry provides its own unique challenges. As materials science innovations continue to drive towards new and more sustainable products, our ability to characterize and process those materials must also advance. As a coating engineer at 3M’s Corporate Research Process Labs, I will discuss a few key fundamental technical challenges relevant to coating of complex, viscoelastic rheologies to produce a range of products – highlighting importance of probing fundamental understanding in the spirit of improving coating across multiple products and industries.