Dear Colleagues!

In the last few decades, nanostructuring of metals and alloys through severe plastic deformation (SPD) has been actively developing and generating great interest.
An important step in the development of this research area was the establishmentof the Institute of Physics of Advanced Materials (IPAM), headed by Director Prof. Ruslan Z. Valiev. The institute was founded in 1995 as a division (research institute) at Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU
) in Ufa, Russia. Later, in 2007, USATU co-founded a spin-off start-up company NanoMeT Ltd. engaged in commercialization of the research results obtained earlier in IPAM USATU in laboratory conditions.
his web-site offers information on the development of technologies for SPD processing in IPAM USATU
 and NanoMeT Ltd ,as well as news and a review of interesting events on the topic of nanoSPDin Russia and the world.

Ruslan Z. Valiev
Director of IPAM USATU, Head of Department of Materials Science and Metal Physics at USATU,
PhD (Dr. Sci.), Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, winner of the Humboldt Research Award, fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, member of the Science Council attached to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation