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This report presents main achievements of international R&D activities of the Institute of Physics of Advanced Materials of Ufa State Aviation Technical University (Ufa, Russia) with a special attention to the innovative potential of nanostructured metals and alloys produced by severe plastic deformation techniques. Several examples of the first promising applications of bulk nanostructured materials as well as potential competing technologies are considered and discussed.

In this paper, we use the scientometric approach based on the Web of Science Core Collection to analyze the data on publication activity in the area of nanostructured materials processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques on the following three main topics: ultrafine-grained materials, severe plastic deformation and bulk nanostructured materials. The results marked early 1990s as the starting period for first publications in question as well as their fast development. Pioneer works by Prof. Valiev and his laboratory at that time and their role in the growth of nanoSPD-related research were outlined.