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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 2 research groups FMC and MCM

Research 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 theory of modern structural metallic materials – starting from single crystals via oriented bi- and tricrystals up to materials with purposely created nanocrystalline structures​

Staff

Research units:

• Functional materials and composites / L. Heller
• Materials with Controlled Microstructures/ J. Čapek
• Mechanical workshop / S. Habr 

• Localized deformation of NiTi
• Constitutive modeling of functional materials
• Microstructure and temperature dependence of NiTi superelasticity
• Moving interfaces in solids
• RoundRobin SMA Modeling

Address

Department of Functional Materials

FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Na Slovance 1999/2
182 00 Prague 8
Czechia

Contacts

Tel: +420 266 052 613

Fax: +420 286 890 527

email: ofm@fzu.cz