Search by tag «Infochemistry» 22 results

• ITMO’s Infochemistry Center Opens Lab Coworking for School Students

  At the newly opened coworking space, school students will get to work on their interdisciplinary research, conduct experiments, and learn to work with such high-tech equipment as a robot chemist, an incubator for growing cell cultures, or an atomic force microscope. Operating within the project Chemistry of the Future: Field-Specific Education in Contemporary Science, this brand-new space is a collaboration between ITMO University and Academy of Talents. 

  27.11.2023

• ITMO at Eastern Economic Forum: Education of the Future and New Challenges

  What are the contemporary trends in science and education? What are the prerequisites of breakthrough technologies? And what kind of economic solutions are developed by students these days? These were some of the questions raised at the Eastern Economic Forum that was held in Vladivostok on September 2-4. Among the speakers of the forum were ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev, Professor Ekaterina Skorb, and Anton Gopka, dean of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  06.09.2021

• ITMO Summer Courses: Teachers Share Their Experiences Part 2

  In the second part of this two-part series, ITMO.NEWS continues to speak about summer schools for school students. Held under the aegis of ITMO.START, the intensive courses help prospective students find their niche and acquire new competencies. 

  04.08.2021

• Picture of the Week: E. Coli-Based Bacterial Biofilm

  Seen in the image below are samples of bacterial biofilm based on Escherichia coli, or E. coli for short, which have been grown on the surface of a nutrient gel covered with various polyelectrolytes.

  29.03.2021

• ITMO University Hosts the First IChem Prize Contest for School Students

  Twenty-five school students from different regions of Russia came to ITMO University to present their interdisciplinary projects on topics encompassing chemistry, biology, mathematics, and IT. Winners received monetary prizes, invitations to participate in the finals of ITMO.STARS, and paid internships at ITMO's Infochemistry Scientific Center.

  25.03.2021

• How Silver Will Help Detect Pesticide Residue

  ​ITMO PhD student with her colleagues from Russia, Spain and Singapore proposed a design of a simple and inexpensive device that would take mere minutes to identify the presence of pesticide residue on the surface of agricultural produce. The research was published in Nanoscale.

  17.03.2021

• ITMO Researchers Develop Biocompatible Support Device for Artificial Organs

  Scientists from ITMO University have used liquid metal and agarose hydrogel to design miniature resistors, capacitors, diodes, and memristors that can be embedded in artificial organs to allow the nervous system to control these implants.

  26.02.2021

• ITMO PhD Student Joins Nobel Winner Konstantin Novoselov's Smart Membrane Research

  In the future, the results of this project may provide the foundation for artificial cells. The research was published in Nature Nanotechnology. 

  11.11.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  41 students from nine Russian cities, including Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Astrakhan and Vladikavkaz, took part in this summer’s SCAMT Workshop Week, hosted by ITMO University’s ChemBio Cluster on July 6-12. 

  22.07.2020

• What Is Infochemistry? Part 2

  What are electrochemical sensors? How do these systems allow you to assess the state of your health? And what opportunities does the development of information technologies open for scientists in this field? ITMO.NEWS delves into these questions together with the researchers from ITMO University’s Infochemistry Center in the second part of the What Is Infochemistry? illustrated series.

  26.05.2020