Frantsevych Institute for Problems of Materials Science of NAS of Ukraine is a leading center of scientific and technical developments in the field of theoretical foundations of new materials formation, technology for production and manufacture of products from these materials with special properties to meet the needs of nuclear energy, electronics, aircraft, general chemical, transport and agricultural engineering , direct conversion of energy into electrical, quantum electronics, instrument engineering, automation and other fields of technology. The Institute carries out fundamental research and technological developments in the fields of: powder metallurgy and composite materials; physical chemistry of inorganic compounds and solid chemistry; soldering of dissimilar materials; solid state physics; physics of high pressure phases; physicochemistry and technology of structural and functional ceramics; nanostructured materials. The institution has developed the scientific basis of advanced technologies for obtaining, processing and combining materials with a specified set of properties.