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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

Entropy matters in grain boundary segregation article on invitation from the Acta Materialia journal written by P. Lejček

Deformation infrared calorimetry for materials characterization applied to study cyclic superelasticity in NiTi wire article introducing novel experimental method published in Material & Design journal written by E. Alarcon

Mass spectrometry of heavy analytes and large biological aggregates by monitoring changes in quality factor of nanomechanical resonator in air written by I. Stuchiv was published in ACS sensors

Shape Memory and Superelasticity 2019 Editor’s Choice Selections

Two articles from the Department: Tensile Deformation of Superelastic NiTi Wires in Wide Temperature and Microstructure Ranges and B2 ⇒ B19′ ⇒ B2T Martensitic Transformation as a Mechanism of Plastic Deformation of NiTi were selected by the editors of Shape memory and Superelasticity journal to belong among the top 6 articles of the year 2019 and awarded free online access.

First report of transparent conductive boron-doped diamond electrodes fabrication at low temperatures published by P. Ashcheulov et al. in Applied Materials Today

Low temperature synthesis of transparent conductive boron doped diamond films for optoelectronic applications: Role of hydrogen on the electrical properties