• Metal technologies
  
  
  
  
  • Optimization of materials and processes in ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys, welding and other processing technologies;
  
  
  • Structure and properties of metal and slag melts: analyses and predictions of the phase diagrams, modeling of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties;
  
  
  • Simulation of the thermodynamic and kinetics of metallurgical reactions, phase interaction. 
  
  
  
  


• Development of new materials;
  
  
  
  
  • Phase transformation, diffusion, physical and mechanical properties;
  
  
  • Design and production of materials with required structure and properties;
  
  
  
  


• Study of properties of various materials. Techniques, ideas, generalizations.


• Special technological solutions;


• Coatings and surface modification
  
  
  
  • Micro-arc oxidation (plasma electrolytic oxidaion) technology;
  
  
  • Corrosion and erosion protection, abrasion stability etc.;
  
  
  
  


• Databases and knowledge bases on material technologies and their implementation;


• Advanced polymer technologies
  
  
  
  • Patterning with evaporated polymer solutions, self-assembly and self-organization with polymer solutions, structured polymer surfaces;
  
  
  
  


• Wetting phenomena
  
  
  
  • Fundamentals of wettabilty, experimental techniques intended for investigation of wetting
  
  
  • Contact angle hysteresis: experiment and theory, spreading and super-spreading
  
  
  • The phenomenon of superhydrophobicity: experiment, theory, applications, electrowetting, superhydrophilicity
  
  
  • Wetting transitions, surfaces with a tunable wettability, modification of wettability with plasma, non-stick droplets, liquid marbles.
  
  
  
  


• Interface phenomena at micro- and nano-structured surfaces
  
  
  
  • Micro- and nano-structured organic and non-organic surfaces, manufacturing, characterization and properties
  
  
  • Self-assembly and self-organization. "Breath figures" self-assembly
  
  
  • Biomimetic surfaces, gecko- and shark-skin effects
  
  
  • Soft lithography. Moth-eye effect.
  
  
  
  


• Nanomaterials and nano-structures
  
  
  
  • Two-, one- and zero-dimensional systems;
  
  
  • Applications;
  
  
  • New materials;
  
  
  • Concepts and techniques.
  
  
  
  


• Green Technologies
  
  
  
  • Domestic and industrial buildings, materials and equipment;
  
  
  • Alternative energy and energy saving;
  
  
  • Solar heating and air-conditioning;
  
  
  • Waste-water purification;
  
  
  • Waste utilization.
  
  
  
  

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