The physical chemistry of inorganic materials developed in the studies of V. N. Eremenko’s school: physicochemical analysis and thermodynamics of alloys

12 August 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of Valentin Eremenko’s birth, an academician of the Academy of sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, an outstanding physical chemist, a founder of the Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Eremenko’s papers on the physical chemistry of fine particulate systems and surface phenomena, chemical thermodynamics of alloys and metal compounds, and physicochemical analysis of metal and metallic systems have highly been praised by national and international scientific community. Eremenko’s chemical concept of phenomena that occur at interfaces in heterogeneous systems has been brilliantly proven by experiment and widely used in studies focusing on surface phenomena, powder metallurgy processes, compatibility of materials, soldering, etc. The physicochemical constants for simple and complex substances derived from analysis of the phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties of metal, metallic, and semiconductor systems have been included into handbooks and are an important, fundamental component of modern materials science. Eremenko’s scientific ideas and scientific areas are further elaborated by his school of physical chemists.