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The main area of R&D activities is development of functional coatings and metal surface modification technologies, which provide surfaces with exceptional properties (anticorrosive, photo/electrocatalytic, magnetic, mechanical, etc.). The most important directions of fundamental and applied research performed in the laboratory are as follows:

• Formation of metal, metal alloys and various semiconductor layers on metal substrate as solar energy conversion materials, investigation of photoelectrochemical processes
• Material science of metal degradation processes
• Metal surface modification
• Precious metal plating, analysis and recovery

 Services available:

• Electrodeposition of metallic coatings such as zinc, copper, nickel, chromium, gold, palladium, rhodium, platinum and their alloys
• Expert assessment of quality of electroplated coatings, chemical analysis of metals, recovery of noble metals
• Design and introduction of new electroplating technological processes
• Formation of conductive transparent semiconductor layers (SnO₂, F:SnO₂ (FTO), Fe₂O₃, Cu_xO) using spray pyrolysis and sol-gel techniques
• Development of dimensionally stable electrodes based on chemically stable oxide materials