Within this scientific direction we design, synthesize and explore a class of new functional materials, known as smart materials.
Novel electric- and magnetic- field-controllable materials, are of the broad interest for microelectronics, spintronics, energy conversion technologies and biomedicine. In particular, we study the materials that exhibit caloric and coupled caloric (multicaloric) effects from the point of view of their applicability in alternative solid-state cooling technologies. Another class of smart materials are shape memory alloys which have the ability to «memorize» or
retain their previous geometric form when subjected to certain external stimuli such as heating, mechanical forces or magnetic field.