The FSRC "Crystallography and Photonics" of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducts fundamental, exploratory and applied scientific research in the following areas:
- crystallography, condensed matter physics, physical materials science, optics and laser physics, photonics, photochemistry, information technologies;
- new crystalline and functional materials; — physics and technology of nanomaterials and nanostructures;
- additive technologies and equipment; structure and functions of biomolecules and supramolecular complexes;
- biophotonics, optical-information methods for studying bio-objects of different levels of hierarchy and biosphere;
- methods of structural diagnostics using X-ray and synchrotron radiation, electrons, neutrons and atomic force microscopy;
- physical and physico-chemical methods for the study of condensed media;
- space materials science (the study of the properties of condensed media, including bioorganic media, and the synthesis of materials under microgravity conditions);
- products and technologies for medical purposes, intelligent systems for medicine;
- laser information systems and technologies;
- informatics, system analysis, management and information processing;
- computer optics, nanophotonics, optical information technologies and systems, adaptive intelligent vision systems;
- opto-, radio- and acoustoelectronics, optical and microwave communications, lasers and laser technologies;
- element base and materials for microelectronics, nanoelectronics, quantum computers and optical information networks, nano- and microsystem technology;
- nanotechnologies, nanobiotechnologies, nanosystems, nanomaterials, nanodiagnostics, nanoelectronics and nanophotonics;
- physics: optics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, solid mechanics, hydromechanics, designs and parts of measuring instruments, measurement theory and measurement methods, medical physics;
- chemistry: inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, photochemistry, chemical physics, macromolecular chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, medical chemistry, solid state chemistry;
- biology: biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, special methods and techniques for studying biological molecules;
- mathematics: mathematical physics, technique of direct counting and calculations, programs and devices in mathematics for calculations and counting; image analysis and pattern recognition systems; predictive mathematical (including multiscale) modeling;
- chemical technology: chemical and technological processes and installations, physical and physico-chemical processes and equipment, chemical and biochemical reactions; pharmacology: pharmaceutical chemistry, biopharmacy;
- environmental protection: theory and methods of environmental pollution research, environmental monitoring methods, ecological expertise.
