National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) is the supreme scientific self-governing organization of Ukraine, which is based on state ownership. The self-government of the Academy is based on the independent determination of research topics and forms of their organization and conduct, the formation of its structure, the solution of scientific, organizational, economic, personnel issues, the implementation of international scientific relations, the election and collegiality of governing bodies. NASU unites full members, corresponding members and foreign members, all scientists of its institutions, organizes and carries out fundamental and applied scientific research on the most important problems of natural, technical, social and humanitarian sciences. Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science is the second largest academic/research.educational institute in the system of NASU founded in 1952 is on the forefront of the research, development and commercialization of novel structural and functional materials in the following areas: ceramics, composits, powder metallurgy, high temperature strentght materials, metastable, highly permeable, porous, nanostructured and many others.