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Department of Physical Chemistry of Inorganic Materials
Our research group, called as Department of Physical Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (DPCIM), belongs to Frantsevych Institute for Problems of Materials Science (FIPMS). Really, we are the extensive sub-unit of the Institute. Now our general staff comprises more than 30 people, of whose there are 2 Full Doctors of Sciences and 12 Ph.Ds. (Chemical Sciences). One third of the total number of our staff members are the young scientists under 35 years of age.dep6@ipms.kiev.ua
The research directions.
Generally the topics of our researches are in the field of
alloy phase diagrams, chemical thermodynamics, thermal and
mechanical processing of alloys. We study binary, ternary and multinary systems of
d- and f-metals and as well those which include non-metallic components; solid and liquid metal alloys,
refractory compounds, semiconductors.
In more detail, in our investigations we have produced a great number of results in
the following subjects:
- Refractory systems based on Mo, W, Nb, Ta with carbides, borides, boride-silicides,
boride-carbides.
- Ternary and quaternary systems with titanium and boron.
- Development and investigation of new metallic materials based on titanium, chromium,
aluminium.
- Alloys with metal-matrix composites.
- Chemical thermodynamics (thermodynamic properties) of solid and liquid alloys of REM alloys.
- Investigation of quasy-crystal forming systems with Al, Fe, Cr, Pd.
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History of Department. The department of Physical Chemistry of Inorganic
Materials (DPCIM) is one of those FIPMS departments that exist since the very
beginnings of the Institute's history. The first Head of DPCIM was V.N. Eremenko (academician
of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union), who gave the best of his efforts for
coming into being the DPCM's original scientific school. In the Institute which we belong to, DIPMS was
the main department dealing with investigations of phase diagrams and alloy thermodynamics.
Furthermore, in the Former Soviet Union (SU), DIPMS was the leading team in this field,
and its role was to coordinate these investigations in SU in a substantial
scale. For such a researches we are equipped with necessary instrumentation,
however it was not renewed after the disintegration of the Soviet Union occured.
Therefore, in order to support sufficient level of our researches, we use a close
scientific-technical cooperation with the foreign colleagues. And now we have
many contacts with Western colleagues.