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Department of Functional Materials

belongs to the Condensed Matter Division of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

The department consists of 3 research groups FMC, MNB and MCM

R esearch within the department focusses on active or passive functionality imprinted to the solid state materials on the structural level,

Currently, we are mainly working on:

martensitically transforming shape memory alloys in various forms from bulk to thin filaments, thin films or composites and development of their engineering applications
preparation, characterization, and functionalization of carbon materials in different forms covering nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) coatings, nanodiamond particles (NDP) and monocrystalline diamonds (SCD) and graphene based layers
preparation, characterization and theory of modern structural metallic materials – starting from single crystals via oriented bi- and tricrystals up to materials with purposely created nanocrystalline structures

Head of Department

Name	Surname	Phone	Email
Petr	Šittner	+420 266 052 657	sittner@fzu.cz

Deputy Head of Department

Name	Surname	Phone	Email
Luděk	Heller	+420 266 053 351	heller@fzu.cz
Pavel	Lejček	+420 266 052 167	lejcekp@fzu.cz

Secretary

Name	Surname	Phone	Email
Marcela	Boháčková	+420 266 052 613	bohacekm@fzu.cz

Research units:

Recent Key Results

Simona Baluchova is a first author of an interesting article of the group MNB recently published in high IF journal Analytica Chimica Acta.

Pejman Shayanfard published an interesting article Experimental and numerical investigation of thermomechanical cycling of notched NiTi shape memory ribbon using SMA model accounting for plastic deformation in Journal of Materials Research and Technology.

Michaela Roudnicka published a sequel paper on SLM manufacturing of CoCrMo based medical alloy in the journal Additive Manufacturing.

A comprehensive article by O. Molnarova et al bringing new insight into micromechanics and crystallography of martensitic transformation in NiTi based on the post mortem analysis of martensitic microstructures in deformed nanocrystalline NiTi wires

Evolution of martensitic microstructures in nanocrystalline NiTi wires deformed in tension, Acta Materialia,217(2021)117166

Michaela Roudnicka published an article on additively manufactured CoCrMo medical alloy in high IF Journal Additive Manufacturing - Microstructural instability of L-PBF Co28Cr6Mo alloy at
elevated temperatures