The original article was written by Alice Horáčková, Department of Media Communication of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
https://www.avcr.cz/cs/pro-media/aktuality/Druha-brnenska-navsteva-predsedkyne-AV-CR-Ustav-fyziky-materialu/
The Institute of Materials Physics was the second institute, which was the chairwoman of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Eva Zažímalová during her all-day visit to Brno. The Institute is situated in a pleasant and quiet environment of Brno-střed mezi vzrostlými stromy, and like the nearby Institute of Instrumentation has many successes in both basic research and application sphere.
Without materials, the company can do nothing.
"We are focusing on clarifying the relationship between the structure and the properties of the materials," said Ludvík Kunz, with the fact that the research of the Institute is permanently up-to-date in its essence - without materials, the company simply can not do it. Once it was wood and stone, later bronze and iron, and today we can not do without superalloys and many other very sophisticated materials. Current trends in material research include tailor-made materials for a particular use, the relationship between the technology of preparation and the properties of progressive materials (eg 3D printing), the overlapping of material research to "life sciences" and the perspective properties of recycled materials.
Within the Institute, which was established in 1963 as the Institute of Metals, and six years later renamed the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, there are three scientific departments and workshops where samples of experiments are mainly produced. Relatively recently a project team has been created. "I was not entirely sure of his establishment at first, but I must say he was amazingly successful: We have greatly reduced our designers to project bureaucracy and freed their hands for scientific work. We are currently addressing over forty domestic and foreign research projects, which is an enormous administrative burden, "added the director, who is also coordinator of the AV 21 Strategy entitled New Materials Based on Metal, Ceramics and Composites.
