The department has a national responsibility for education and research in Materials Science and Engineering with particular emphasis on physical and process metallurgy of light metals and ferroalloys, corrosion science, electrochemistry with focus on electrolysis and fuel cells, materials chemistry and refractory and ceramic materials. Typically 15 PhD candidates are graduating from the department annually. The annual number of peer review publications in international journals is about 60.
The department has been strongly involved in the establishment of the new cross disciplinary nanotechnology laboratory at NTNU.
The department is based on strong traditions within the disciplines process and physical metallurgy, inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry. It has a long term commitment in collaboration with SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, which is also co-located with the department. The department have a national responsibility to supply Norwegian industry with MSc and PhD candidates and a major part of the research at the department are sponsored by the Norwegian core industry. The department has also strong traditions in international collaboration through the European framework programs.
The department is organized in four different research fields; physical metallurgy, process metallurgy, electrochemistry and inorganic chemistry.
