Topics

Section 1: High-Purity Substances and Metallic Materials with Given Properties
- nanomaterials and high-purity substances with given composition and properties;
- approaches to the development of special-purity functional metallic nanomaterials;
- synthesis of new substances;
- synthesis of rare-earth metal intermetallics, study of their structure and properties;
- film metallic materials;
- clusters, fullerenes, nanotubes;
- study of crystallization processes of metallic systems, determination of distribution coefficients;
- role of interstitial impurities in nanomaterials;
- hydrogen-permeable palladium-based alloys;
- emission materials;
- development of physical and analytical methods for the study of nanomaterials.

Section 2: Magnetic Materials and Systems
- modern state and trends in the development of magnetic materials and systems;
- preparation of bulk nano-structured materials;
- fundamentals of magnetism;
- calculation and design of magnetic systems;
- structure and properties of magnetic materials;
- development of physical and analytical methods for the study of magnetic and functional materials;
- metrology, standardization, and certification in the field of nanotechnology, nanomaterials, and high-purity substances;
- application of magnetic materials;
- magnetostriction and magnetocaloric materials;
- magnetism and superconductivity.

Section 3: Functional Ceramic Materials and High-Purity Substances
- synthesis of starting high-purity components, nanotubes, nanowires;
- processes and technology of nano-structured ceramics;
- planar structures and thin nano-structured films;
- functional ceramics;
- ceramics for medicine;
- structural ceramics.

Section 4: Composite Nanomaterials. Polymer Materials
- composite metallic materials, produced by powder and granular metallurgy;
- metallic composites strengthened with boron and carbon fibers;
- composite materials with nano-structured matrix;
- designing, production, and study of polymer-based composite materials;
- multifunctional coatings, glues, compounds, jointing components, lubricants for different purposes;
- application of composite materials.

Section 5: Economics, Source of Raw Materials, and Organization of Production in High-End Technologies
- processing of rare metal raw;
- development of environmentally appropriate and resource-saving technologies;
- economics of high-end technologies;
- processing of permanent-magnet wastes and their refining;
- economics of high-purity functional materials;
- high-end technologies and production;
- nano-technologies and social changes in society, safe application of nanoproducts.

Discussions and presentation of scientific equipment and instruments applied in nanotechnology and nanoindustry (Instron, LECO, Carl Zeiss, etc.) will be held in terms of the Conference.

All-Russian Seminar “Nanomaterials and Technologies in Nuclear Atomic-Power Engineering” (NanoMatAE).