Research directions:

• Development of high-temperature synthesis methods and investigation of functional properties of wear-resistant refractory materials based on ternary nitrides and carbides (MAX phase);

• Development of energy-saving technology for production of inorganic colored pigments resistant to high temperatures, sunlight and corrosive media;

• Development of fundamentals for controlling heterogeneous combustion and formation of reaction products which includes using external forces and mechanoactivation;

• Investigation of physical phenomena and nonequilibrium physical and chemical processes accompanying propagation of combustion waves in heterogeneous systems;

• Synthesis of functional materials and investigation of their physical and chemical properties;

• Theory of formation of product macrostructure during high-temperature synthesis;

• Development of the theory of macroscopic kinetics during mechanochemical synthesis;

• Numerical simulation of the behavior of composite materials and structures under shock-wave loading with allowance for anisotropy of physical and mechanical properties and fracture;

• Numerical simulation of physical and chemical processes in condensed media under explosive and shock wave loading.

• Self-propagating synthesis of metal nitrides and nitride-containing materials for their possible use as ligatures in metallurgy, as additives in welding, as catalysts, etc.

• Beam technologies

• Biogas technologies

• Techniques to study ecosystem monitoring using unmanned vehicle aircraft

• The logico-philosophical approach to studying the science and everyday communication