Main directions of fundamental in-vestigations

- development of scientific approaches to a control of powder composites properties on a metal base with additives of a solid (soft) phase using a computer modeling of peculiarities of their macrostructure and behavior in conditions of an outer power and temperature effect;

- development of scientific principles of production and control methods of the structure and properties of frictional and antifrictional nanocrystalline composites of various functional purposes;

- development of scientific basis of production of permeable materials with an ordered structure being obtained by powder metallurgy methods for combustion, filtration and catalysis processes;

- investigation of heat and mass-transfer processes in porous powder materials with a nonregular porous structure;

- development of scientific basis of obtaining composite powders of the given chemical and phase composition by methods of cladding, mechanical alloying, granulation, selfpropagating high temperature synthesis (SHS), spraying functional barrier coatings from powder materials;

- development of theoretical and technological basis of materials' modification by microplasmaspark methods in conditions of electrical discharge being controlled in different media;

- development of scientific approaches to a creation of new composite electrode materials, formation of coatings on conducting substrates with the use of microplasmaspark methods;

- investigation of the mechanism of strengthening of thermally sprayed composite coatings when treating with highly concentrated flows of energy;

- investigation of laws of functional coatings formation by methods of thermal spraying and physical deposition, development of scientific and technological basis of their spraying;

- development of the mathematical and computer model of a melt particle interaction with a hard surface in conditions of changing parameters of environment and properties of the formed coatings;

- experimental investigation of the influence of physical and mechanical effects on a topology of the work of an exit of a solid bodies surface electron, development of a criterium and a method of finding areas of a stress-deformed state on the surface.