Institute of Materials Science was established on 1st of January, 2007 joining the former departments into a larger unit achieving an improvement of scientific and research activities as well as of international cooperation.
The Institute is responsible for materials and physics oriented courses at MTF. On bachelor degree, the Institute guarantees study program Materials Engineering, on engineering and doctorate degrees it guarantees study programs Materials Engineering, Processing and Application of Non-metals as well as Surface Engineering of Advanced Materials.
Research and expertise activities of the Institute are aimed at crystallization of metals and alloys, tool material and nickel-based alloys, powder metallurgy, bio-compatible materials, stainless steels, steels for power plants, weldability of steels, magnetic materials, thermal treatments and surface modification of materials, complex metallic alloys, grain boundary engineering as well as ceramic and polymer materials.
At present, the Institute posses' 7 laboratories equipped with number of modern experimental techniques (for example: high resolution transmission electron microscopy Philips CM300, X-ray diffractometer Philips PW 1710, differential scanning calorimeter Perkin Elmer). In areas, research and education, the Institute established intensive cooperation with local and foreign institutes. It becames a part of a network of foreign academic and commercial institutes which gives an opportunity for extensive exchange of students and academic staff members of the Institute contributing to dynamic and sustainable professional growth. As the most prestigious academic institutes could be mentioned Leibnitz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany), Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Research Center Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany), Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno (Czech Republic), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and other Slovak universities and institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. From the list of industrial partners the most recognized are Bekaert SA (Belgium), Böhter - Edelstahl and Branson div. Emerson.