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ITMO Researchers Create Unique Wound-Healing Nanofibers Based on Hyaluronic Acid
…The new polymer nanofiber was created as part of Petr Snetkov’s PhD project, supervised by Prof. Mayya Uspenskaya, head of ITMO’s International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering. The paper presenting the results of the project was published in Materials, and was chosen by the MDPI publishing house to be the cover of its 16th issue containing over 20…
30.09.2020
ITMO Researchers Develop Unique Printing Technology for Invisible Images
…as supported by the Russian Science Foundation, and the results acquired on the first step were enough to strike a contract with JSC RPC KRYPTEN that includes implementing the new technology into the company’s manufacturing cycle. To achieve this, a number of theoretical and practical tasks had to be solved first. Namely, the researchers had to create special coll…
29.09.2020
Down the River: Delightful Journey Through My Suddenly Unfamiliar Country
…t first you are amazed at how little effort, responsibility or initiative (things that make up our worlds 24/7) is required of you. Every day you are conveniently brought to a new place. Along the way, you are entertained and fed according to a pre-arranged schedule, and for the first time in your life you have enough free time (and literally nothing else to do) to s…
29.09.2020
Are Russians a Gambling Nation?
ITMO’s Cultural Navigation Course: Lectures, Challenges, and Quests
…he city in all its historical and cultural diversity, and above all, to make the environment of a huge metropolis more comfortable for our students and to help them adapt to a new cultural space. Last year, the course piloted with success – about 400 students signed up. Now, this discipline is included in the electives and the grade for it will be in the diploma supp…
28.09.2020
Scientists Manage to Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal
…t at the Department of Physics and Engineering. “At our faculty, there is a setup for three-dimensional nano-printing, where a voxel (the minimum volume of printing – Ed. ITMO.NEWS) is about half a micron, which is a hundred times smaller than a human hair. With its help, we created the structure of a quasicrystal with a complex structured distribution of the materia…
28.09.2020
Inside the Industrial Ecology and Cleaner Production Master’s Program at ITMO University
…This year, more than 45 people – including international students from India, Nigeria, Iran, and Colombia – have enrolled in the program. The new students had the chance to join an online kick-off meeting during which the heads and professors of the program told them about the educational process and the opportunities it offers. Mikhail Kurushkin, dean of the Facu…
25.09.2020
Song of the Month: September 2020
…Zoya Do you feel September? This fresh smell of barely red or yellow leaves, rare but beautiful sun, and the feeling of the new beginning are already there. For me, September is always a new start: academic, seasonal, personal. And every new September I listen to two old Septembers: by Earth, Wind a Fir…
25.09.2020
Bioinformatics Explained
… to model tertiary structures of proteins that aren’t yet studied – it’s called gene folding. They also model molecule interactions on a computer. For example, we can look for new medicine not only by mixing already known substances but also by modeling their target interaction – that’s called gene docking. What do bioinformatics researchers do? That de…
24.09.2020
Biometrics in Corporate Security and Everyday Life
…evels, from the state library to the gym, that would open the doors of our apartments and cars, that would help us pay for purchases in any store – this is the keystone of our new ecosystem. It would make it possible to leave our phones, documents, and keys at home, and yet complete all the planned tasks. “We are doing our best to solve the problem of overlo…
24.09.2020