Investigator: doc. RNDr. Petr Lukáš, CSc., dr. h. c.
Number of Project: AV0Z20410507
Agency: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Duration: 01. 01. 2005 - 31. 12. 2010

This institutional research plan covers the main part of the Institute’s activity. All the research groups participate on its solution by the dominant parts of their activity. The aim of the institutional research plan is to contribute to the gradual deepening of understanding of the relation between microstructure in the bulk as well as at surfaces and interfaces on the one hand and properties on the other hand. On this basis it is possible to optimise both the microstructure and the properties and design completely new materials. In the concrete, the research is centred on ultrafine-grained materials, microcrystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous materials, intermetallics, superalloy single crystals and polycrystals, advanced steels, advanced magnesium alloys, advanced iron and nickel alloys, shape memory alloys, composite and nanocomposite materials, metal laminates, lead-free solder materials, magnetic semiconductors and half-metallic magnets, magnetic multilayers and transition-metal silicides. The investigated physical properties include relevant mechanical properties (creep, fatigue, brittle fracture) and/or selected electrical and magnetic properties.

Kloc, Luboš, Mareček, Petr, Fiala, Jaroslav:
Creep of Zr-doped alumina at very low creep rates.
Mater. Sci. Eng. A 483-484 (2008), 541-543.

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Molybdenum Diffusion in Crystallized Fe_76-yMo₈Cu₁B_12+y Alloy. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 159. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Zn Diffusion in Binary Base of Light Mg-Al Alloys. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 165. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal (Eds.): D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, IPM AS CR, Brno, 2006.

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Tracer Diffusion of Molybdenum in Crystallized Fe_79-yMo₈Cu₁B_12+y Alloy. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 43.

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Zn Diffusion in Binary Base of Light Mg-Al Alloys. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 44.

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Diffusion and Structural Changes in Fe_91-yMo₈Cu₁B_y Alloy. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 2007, 156219.

J. Čermák and I. Stloukal: Structure Changes of Fe_91-yMo₈Cu₁B_y Alloys - Comparison of the Influence of Fe and Mo Diffusivity. METAL 2007 - 16^th International Metallurgical & Material Conference, Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic, May 22-24 2007, CD-ROM.

L. Král, B. Million and J. Čermák: Diffusion of Carbon and Manganese in Fe-C-Mn. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 42.

L. Král, B. Million and J. Čermák: Diffusion of Carbon and Manganese in Fe-C-Mn. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 153. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

V. Rothová: Diffusion in Presence of Twin Boundaries. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 52.

V. Rothová, J. Buršík, M. Svoboda and J. Čermák: Grain Boundary Self-Diffusion in Nickel. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 53.

V. Rothová: Diffusion in the Presence of Twin Boundaries. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 201. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

V. Rothová, J. Buršík, M. Svoboda and J. Čermák: Grain Boundary Self-Diffusion in Nickel. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 207. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

V. Rothová, J. Buršík, M. Svoboda and J. Čermák: Grain Boundary Self-Diffusion in Nickel 3. The Effect of Sample Purity. METAL 2007 - 16^th International Metallurgical & Material Conference, Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic, May 22-24 2007, CD-ROM.

I. Stloukal and J. Čermák: Diffusion of Zinc in Two-phase Mg-Al Alloy. Def. Dif. For. 263, 2007, 189. (Presented as poster on D_&T 06, 9^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics in Materials, September 13-15, 2006, Brno, Czech Republic)

I. Stloukal and J. Čermák: Diffusion of Zinc in Two-Phase Mg - Al Alloy. D_&T '06 IX^th Seminar on Diffusion and Thermodynamics of Materials Book of Abstracts, 2006, p. 50.