In recent decades new functional solid state materials have attracted much attention of material scientists, physicists and engineers. The physical basement of the unique functional properties of the new materials is often associated with phase transitions that manifest themselves in a solid state: magnetic, structural, superconducting ones. The resulting “giant” effects of the striking controlled change of size, shape, entropy, conductivity etc. in these materials under action of heating/cooling, stress and/or magnetic field exceed by the orders of magnitude the usual effects of magnetostriction and thermal expansion. These effects provide the new opportunities for next step engineering, microsystem technology, biomedical technology and alternative energy. Several new kinds of the solid state functional materials with phase transitions will be described in the lecture, including magnetic and nonmagnetic shape memory alloys, magnetocaloric materials based on Heusler alloys and rare Earth elements. The devices based on them and their prospective applications will also be detailed. Particularly, the new technology of the composite shape memory mechanical nanotools with record small dimensions and high frequency of operation will be described. New room temperature applications of the magnetocaloric effect and magnetic functional materials for solid state refrigerators and heat pumps will be outlined. The new ideas of the economical high magnetic field generation for electrical engineering, super high speed vacuum magnetic levitating transportat and medical diagnostics will be discussed. The 10 years’ experience of the new shape memory dental implant system based on nanostructural shape memory materials for treatment of the patients with severe dental diseases will also be reported.

Dr. Sci. Koledov Victor was born 20 of April 1955 in city Rostov am Don. From 1972 till 1978 he studied in Study of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) (Technical University) and finished this University 1978 with Dipl. Eng. in Physics and Electronics. In 1986 he has got PhD (Solid State Physics). In 2008 he has done work for Doctor Habilitation of Sciences with the thesis: “Phase transition and giant deformation in Heusler alloys in external fields.“ (Kotelnikov’ IRE RAS). Since 1982 till now he is working Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS). Now he is Leading scientist in this IRE RAS. His research areas are experimental studies of magnetic properties, magnetooptics, ferromagnetic domains, semiconductor lasers, fiber optics, ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, functional materials, medical applications of functional materials, multiferroics, strong magnetic fields, giant magnetocaloric effect, micromechanics, nanomechanics, nanomanipulation system based on record small nanotweezers. He is leader of more the 20 national and international projects. Victor Koledov is author and coauthor of more then 150 scientific paper in referred journals and more then 150 presentation at national and international presentation, among then more than 20 Invited and Key Note speaker. He was invited Professor in – Spain, Romania, Portugal, China, India. He has got awards / Prizes / Honours at 2009 Start2grow competition of Businessplan Germany for Nano-tools, 2010 Start2grow competition of Businessplan Germany for MST-technology of Nano-tools, 2014 Nano 3 M Award for invited report, 2018 3M Nano Award as Keynote speaker.