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• ITMO Students Win a Grant from Gazprom Neft for Their Project on Abandoned Cars

  …iron and steel (55% of the total mass of the car), aluminum alloys (9%), rubber (7%), glass (3%), non-ferrous metals (1%) and, most importantly, plastic (20-30%). There are certain technologies that allow for recycling of almost all car parts except those made of plastic since it is very difficult and expensive to sort. The thing is that each type of plastic needs it…

  14.01.2020

• Artist and Biologist Ippolit Markelov on Russian Science Art and Collaborating With Scientists

  …s of the car, which allows them to drive easily. When you use a neural interface to manipulate a virtual object, your mind is trying to solve a similar problem. At a certain time you start associating yourself with the object you need to manipulate. It’s quite handy for practical problems, like when you navigate a drone or a robot. In this project, however, we…

  13.01.2020

• Medical Journalist Elizaveta Babitskaya on Being an Informed Patient in Russia

  …a deeper understanding of how things worked in it and learn from the professionals. Parallel to that, you were continuing your university studies. What knowledge that you obtained during your Master’s came in handy in your work?  On the one hand, our training was rather academic, on the other – it offered opportunities for global networking. We had a large numb…

  13.01.2020

• ITMO Scientists Help School Team Win ICCET 2019

  …power. I really liked the internship at ITMO, this was a useful experience and an important stage of preparing for the contest,” comments Yaroslav Zelenchukov, Quantum team captain. According to the participants, the supervision by ITMO scientists was a real good help and let them thoroughly prepare for the contest. “At ITMO University, we’ve reviewed t…

  10.01.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Create Complex Nanoparticles with Laser Impulses

  …etal-organic frameworks. Contrary to their expectations, they noticed that light allowed them to not only modify these frameworks, but also, when the IR radiation reached a certain intensity level causing the framework to melt, create new nanoparticles with an entire spectrum of optical qualities. In this case, it took billionths of a second to melt the material, bef…

  10.01.2020

• Laura Rodriguez: From Biotechnologist to Science Artist

  … there are other biomaterials such as silk of transgenic origin or spider web that are gaining commercial recognition. We must keep in mind that biodegradable does not mean sustainable, so it should be a crucial concept in new proposals. Meanwhile, I educate people on what kombucha really is and how to use biomaterials in art. What do you believe we can expect fro…

  09.01.2020

• RealGo Startup: ITMO Students Create Russia’s First Accessible VR Controller

  …ssonance and the consequences of simulator sickness.  “Right now, what we have is a ‘garage sample’, i.e. the first working prototype. This is an average-sized plastic container, but ideally the end device will be much smaller. It’s fixed on the body as a strap vest, and two sensors are attached to the legs. To use the controller in virtual reality, the user nee…

  09.01.2020

• Arctic Snacks: ITMO University Researchers Develop Functional Foods for Far North Regions

  …ers at ITMO University are working on a project that aims to develop a daily ration suitable for extreme climate conditions. As per the creators’ intent, the meals would contain a spectrum of products required to fulfill an individual’s daily macronutrient needs. Macronutrients are the materials that a human body requires in large doses – essentially, proteins, ca…

  08.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 2

  …management, which is beginning to solve the food tracking issue. At the same time, an improved product packaging technology presents new opportunities to identify whether a certain item was stored in correct temperatures and determine whether it could go off.  Blockchain is a decentralized accounting system in which entries are recorded in sequence in multiple ide…

  07.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

  …at was how my little tradition started. When I revisited the franchise for the first time, I went through all of the games in chronological order, but now I only go back to certain episodes, usually somewhere around New Year or over the summer holidays. This year, for instance, I want to go back to The Sea of Darkness.  I think that I mostly want to revisit the ga…

  02.01.2020