MAIN TOPICS
Topics covered by the joint conference are:
- Tribology (surface treatments and coatings, lubricants and additives, friction and wear, lubrication of machine elements, bio-tribology, virtual modeling of dry and film contacts, case studies in tribology).
- Applied surface science and vacuum applications (electronic materials and processing, biointerfaces, nanometer structures, plasma science and technology, surface engineering, thin films, vacuum science and technology, hard coatings).
SCOPE
RIVA conference is organized every two years by the Spanish and Portuguese Society of Vacuum (ASEVA and SOPORVAC), Similarly, IBERTRIB is a biennial symposium assembling researchers working on Tribology from Spain and Portugal, changing the location between both countries.
In the 2019 edition, both meetings will take place together in the nice city of Seville, organized by the Material Science Institute of Seville (CSIC-University of Seville) at the Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de la Cartuja (cicCartuja). This would be a special opportunity to gather scientists from both communities, academia and industry, sharing their results, advances and new challenges.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
PLENARY SESSION

Mitjan Kalin
University of Ljubljana
(Slovenia)
Surface energy and wetting;
a strategy for new advancement in tribology

Mar García
ICMM-CSIC
(Spain)
Synthesis of graphene on insulators

Dirk Hegemann
EMPA
(Switzerland)
Plasma Polymer Films: Functionality, Stability and Usability

Frank Nüesch
EPFL
(Lausanne)
Organic Optoelectronic Device Interfaces
INVITED TALKS:

Dimas García de Oteyza
Materials Physics Center
(Spain)
Magnetism in on-surface synthesized hydrocarbon structures

Kostas Sarakinos
Linköping University
(Sweden)
Toward a universal understanding of thin film growth on weakly-interacting substrates

Stefano Mischler
EPFL
(Switzerland)
Degradation of biomedical implants: a combined tribology and corrosion approach

Paulo Freitas
INL
(Portugal)
Nanotechnology/Applied surface science

Eduardo J. da Costa Alves
Universidade de Lisboa
(Portugal)
Quantitative analysis of mixed films and deposits by ion beam techniques

Roman Nevshupa
Instituto E. Torroja, CSIC
(Spain)
Triboemission: Unveiling hidden tribological processes

Mato Knez
CIC Nanogune
(Spain)
Vapor Phase Processing: A toolbox for fabricating novel functional hybrid materials

Nuria Espallargas
NTNU
(Norway)
Water-based lubricants for a greener tribology systems

Lucia Aballe
ALBA synchrotron (Spain)
Large amplitude strain spin waves

Gloria Anemone
UAM (Spain)
Ultrasmooth metal thin films on curved fused silica by laser polishing
SYMPOSIUM CyTeS
A special session will be devoted to “Surface Treatments and Coatings prepared by Vacuum techniques“ in cooperation with CyTeS group, specialized in science and technology of surfaces.
SHORT COURSE
A short course is scheduled on Tuesday, 25th on “Patterning and structuration of surfaces” organized by CyTeS.
It will cover the fundaments, methodology and applications of the most advanced techniques in micro- and nanostructuration of surfaces.
The tutorial will cover the following parts:
- Nanolitography processes
- Chemical processes
- Technics based on ion and electron beams.
- Laser processing techniques
- Additive fabrication.
Special discount for participants to IBERTRIVA conference