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• Contest-Winning ITMO Master’s Student on Making Science Popular

  …, including a nanochemistry project I once joined in which I developed thermoregulating nanoparticles. You can add them, for example, to construction materials in order to maintain a comfortable temperature inside buildings all throughout the year. Which projects do you plan to work on at ITMO? I’m looking at ways to use spiderwebs to reduce scarring follow…

  14.10.2021

• Golden Age of Russian Literature, Part One: Pioneers

  …’s impossible not to find something to your liking. What to read: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831) – a collection of short stories, each representing a certain style, from romanticism to gothic prose; and Eugene Onegin (1833), “an encyclopedia of Russian life,” according to the famous critic Vissarion Belinsky. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) …

  12.10.2021

• ITMO Researchers Ramp Up X-Ray Laser Research Into Nano- and Biomaterials

  …. We’re also very much interested in medical biopolymers. That includes, for instance, drug delivery systems, especially water-soluble ones. These systems can be made using certain kinds of polymer materials. Another team, led by Maya Uspenskaya, is already on the task,” tells us Alexey Romanov about the team’s future plans. …

  12.10.2021

• The Five Names of St. Petersburg

  …for the locals this gift of nature is rather controversial: while some take romantic midnight walks along the Neva and watch the bascule bridges, others prefer to close the curtains, put on their sleep masks, and enjoy it from the inside.  Going by any name, St. Petersburg remains the gem of Russia! Learn more about the city’s hidden attractions in our Unexplored …

  11.10.2021

• ITMO Researchers Develop Special Ink For Anti-Counterfeiting Protection

  …The invention is based on nanocolloidal systems produced by means of ionic gelation of nanoparticles with different charge. They contain poly(ethyl methacrylate)-based polymer particles with different charges, which gives the material not just plasticity but also the ability to self-restore. The gels produced in such a way can be used for 2D imagery as well as in mul…

  08.10.2021

• EduStars Winner Yury Andreev: Lecturers Need to Understand What Their Students Are Interested In

  … When students get their first jobs or practical training, they are often told to forget everything they were taught at university. How do you think we can avoid that and maintain a balance between theory and practice?  Yes, I think this rumour has been circulating since Soviet times, but I don’t agree with it. I explain to my students that if they focus on pract…

  08.10.2021

• The Art of Making Molecules. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 in Five Simple Points

  …ubstances often have an optical isomer. Isomers are usually mirror images of each other – like your left and right palm. Usually, products produced through simple synthesis contain both isomers (the substance itself and its “twin”), but in most cases we only need one of the two. To filter out the extra variant, scientists use catalysts when producing organic material…

  07.10.2021

• ITMO Researchers Increase Productivity Using Smart Lighting

  …nsure energy efficiency, we aim to take into account the contribution and parameters of natural lighting in the room,” shared Anastasia Laushkina.  The researchers are certain that the adaptive lighting system will find its application not only in offices or coworking spaces, but also in lecture halls, as well as public, living, and even urban spaces. Given its …

  07.10.2021

• Student Spotlight: Selamwit Kassaye, Ethiopia

  … developments. Every scientific invention is a boon or a bane. For example, dynamite was a great invention with which we could develop roads and railway tracks through the mountains. But on the flip side, they wreaked havoc when in the wrong hands. Similarly, AI can be an amazing tool when used properly. At the same time, it must be kept under check to prevent any ac…

  07.10.2021

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 in Brief: Changing Climate and Ordered Chaos

  …into physical bodies? In the 1980s Giorgio Parisi came up with the spin glass system, where the spin is the magnetic moment of electrons and atoms and the glass is a certain amorphous substance. This choice is important, because solids have ordered crystal structures and amorphous substances seemingly had none. Parisi proved it wrong: glass-like materials have…

  06.10.2021