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Among the founding scientific schools of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute that have transformed the world of materials science, the school established by outstanding metallurgist, laureate of State Prizes, Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine, Director of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1952–1955, and Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine V. Hrydnyev continues to have a significant impact on Ukraine’s scientific and educational fields related to materials science.

Yuriy Gogotsi, a member of the supervisory board of Igor Sikorsky KPI and a professor at Drexel University, has become a key figure in the creation of a new generation of stretchable OLED displays. He is one of the discoverers of MXenes, the materials that form the basis of this breakthrough technology, and led a research team from Drexel University in the United States and Seoul National University.

Over the past decades, humanity has made significant progress in the development of engineering and technology. The inquisitive minds of researchers are overcoming new challenges.

One of the traditions, the origins of which are associated with the activities of an outstanding scientist, innovator, welder, materials scientist academician E.O. Paton, whose name is the Educational and Research Institute of Materials Science and Welding of KPI, is the inseparable unity of KPI scientists with scientists of the Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine of physical and material science profile. In this cooperation, KPI is represented by the E.O. Paton Institute of IMZ - a large educational, scientific and innovative complex in the structure of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which includes 5 departments.

For many years, the sections “Materials and Additive Technologies” and “Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering”, which are part of the Department of Engineering and Materials Science of the Kyiv Academy of Sciences, have been actively working at the E.O. Paton Educational and Research Institute of Materials Science and Welding of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Domestic scientists have been learned to produce modern, previously unknown materials for the needs of various sectors of the economy.

Paton Institute of Materials Science and Welding of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was the organizer of the International Scientific Conference "Materials for work in extreme conditions - 10", which took place at the end of last year.

In the middle of October, the group of students and members of the Faculty of Physical Engineering of KPI visited a city which name evokes many historical and cultural reminiscences in any educated person - the ancient but still young Athens nowadays.

In recent years, a real revolution has been taking place in materials science, related to the creation and increasing use of nanomaterials - nanostructured metal, ceramic and composite materials, which are made of powders, the particle size of which has the order of nanometers (10-9 m).

The seminar-workshop “The theory and practical use of the methods of X-ray diffraction” took place under the patronage of the world famous Japanese company Rigaku Corporation at the Faculty of Physical Engineering on the 18th of September 2019.