Seminar on Cold spray technology: research and application examples from the heart of Europe

Dr Jan CIZEK 

Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Republic

This seminar will be chaired by Prof Michael Khor.

Cold kinetic spray (CS) is a successor to earlier thermal spray technologies, offering several advantages due to its unique work principles. Originally a surface coating technology, CS has lately found its use also for repairing damaged or worn components, and as a great 3D print method. In the latter, it offers several unrivaled advantages over the fusion-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes that now storm the world of production technologies. In the talk, we will show selected highlights of the CS research of our group in Prague, including some world-firsts or interesting applications e.g. for nuclear fusion and fission. The lecturer does not bite, come for a chat!

After graduating from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague in 2004, Jan joined the School of MAE at Nanyang Technological University, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Michael Khor. After eight years of devouring liters of Singapore laksa and tons of cheese prata, he returned to Europe, eventually joining the Institute of Plasma Physics in Prague in 2017, where he leads the cold spray research group and where he happily plans to retire.

His research interests are thermal spray technologies, particularly cold spray, as well as biomaterials, and plasma-facing materials. He is an active member of several international materials-oriented societies and major conference committees and serves as an editor and reviewer to many international journals. He tortures students at two different universities and has supervised over 60 successful PhD and diploma theses.

He is a keen backpack traveler, mountain hiker, jungle survivor, enthusiastic no-longer-slim sportsman, motorbike rider, scuba diver, amateur theater actor, and photographer. He is really terrible at singing.