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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, scanning electron microscopy laboratory and mechanical workshop.

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

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

Long superelastic plateaus in NiTi: Y. Chen, O. Tyc, L. Kadeřávek, O. Molnárová, L. Heller, P. Šittner, Temperature and microstructure dependence of localized tensile deformation of superelastic NiTi wires, Materials & Design 174 (2019) 107797 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2019.107797

Modeling grain boundary segregation : P. Lejček and S. Hofmann, Modeling grain boundary segregation by prediction of all the necessary parameters, Acta Materialia 170 (2019) 253-267, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.03.037 253-267

Experiments and theory focusing unrecoverable cubic to monoclinic martensitic transformation in NiTi at high temperatures: L. Heller, P.Šittner, P.Sedlák, H.Seiner, O.Tyc, L.Kadeřávek, P.Sedmák^, M.Vronka Beyond the strain recoverability of martensitic transformation in NiTi International Journal of Plasticity 116, (2019),232-264, Free link, DOI :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2019.01.007

Corrosion-Resistant Anode made Using Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond: Petr Ashcheulov, Andrew Taylor, Vincent Mortet, Aleš Poruba, Florian Le Formal,Hana Krýsová, Mariana Klementová, Pavel Hubík, Jaromír Kopeček, Jan Lorinčík, Jun-Ho Yum, Irena Kratochvílová, Ladislav Kavan, and Kevin Sivula Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond as a Corrosion-Resistant
Anode for Water Oxidation via Si Photoelectrodes, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b08714

Nucleation energy landscape of diamond during chemical vapor deposition: Matthew A. Gebbie, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Patrick J. McQuade, Vaclav Petrak, Andrew Taylor, Christopher Freiwald, Jeremy E. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrey A. Fokin, Peter R. Schreiner, Zhi-Xun Shen, Milos Nesladek, and Nicholas A. Melosh, Experimental measurement of the diamond nucleation landscape reveals classical and nonclassical features PNAS, August 1 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803654115 , FZU web info, Press release