The Division of Ceramic Materials and Polymers focuses its research on those materials in the context of their specific mechanical, thermal, electrical properties and recognizing them as materials of the future with the prospect of many new applications. The research carried out by the Division concerns designing, describing the structure and properties, degradation and recycling – of plastics in particular. A major portion of research concerns composites, gradient materials, as well as nanomaterials. Projects carried out by the staff of the Division are of utilitarian and interdisciplinary nature, combining scientific problems not only from the area of materials engineering but also chemistry, transport, construction, and even medicine. A great asset of the Division is a wide spectrum of advanced research methods used, such as: infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, specific surface testing and a number of calorimetric methods.

Professor Andrzej Olszyna, Head of Division of Ceramic Materials and Polymers

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