Expertise
• Investigation of the electric and magnetic fields with the aid of electron holography
• Investigation of materials surfaces with the aid of atomic force microscopy
• Investigation of physical and mechanical properties of materials
Materials
• Materials for energy systems and aeronautics:
→ Nickel-based superalloys
→ Titanium and aluminium alloys
→ Intermetallics
→ Materials for extreme environment (tungsten alloys, ODS steels/alloys)
→ Steels and cast steels
• Graded and multilayered materials:
→ Functionally graded materials
→ Multi-layered materials: wear- and erosion resistant coatings; oxidation
resistant coatings
• Biomaterials
→ Nanostructural modification of the implant surfaces
→ Metallic biomaterials
→ Shape-memory alloys
→ Materials for tissue scaffolds
• Other advanced materials
→ Nanomaterials
→ Modern ceramic materials
→ Complex metallic alloys (CMAs)
→ Metal-ceramic composites
→ Modern magnetic materials (e.g. giant magnetoresistant materials, GMRs)
→ Polymers
Methods
• Light microscopy (LM), quantitative metallography
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fractography
• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
→ Quantitative characterization of materials micro- and nanostructure by analytical
electron microscopy methods, also at the atomic level:
- Analysis of microstructure and determination of microstructural parameters
with the aid of various imaging and diffraction methods
- Analysis of materials' microstructure at the atomic level with the aid of
STEM-HAADF imaging with spherical aberration correction
- Orientation and phase mapping in nanoareas
→ Diffraction analyses: Selected area electron diffraction (SAED); Convergent beam
electron diffraction (CBED); Micro- and nanodiffraction (μD, NBD); Precession
electron diffraction (PED)
→ Phases identification in multiphase and multilayered materials with the aid of
diffraction and spectroscopy methods supported by specialized software
→ High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)
→ Chemical analyses (qualitative and quantitative) by spectroscopy methods:
- Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) with a possibility of collecting
elemental distribution maps at the atomic level
- Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
- Elemental distribution maps by energy filtered transmission electron
microscopy (EFTEM)
→ Investigation of the electric and magnetic fields with the aid of electron
holography; Lorentz microscopy
• Electron tomography (HAADF, EFTEM, FIB-SEM-FIB) for reconstruction of three-dimensional images of materials micro- and nanostructure, metrology
• Atomic force microscopy
• Image analysis with the aid of:
→ JEMS, Digital Micrograph, AnalySIS 3.2, Aphelion, ImageJ, Avizo Fire 6 and others
• Mechanical properties investigation
• Non-destructive examination of materials
→ Ultrasonic
→ Eddy-current
→ Acoustic emission
• In vitro cell laboratory: basic biocompatibility investigations with cell lines