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Scientists Manage to Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal
In the future, the use of quasicrystals may open up new possibilities for laser and sensor design. This paper was published in the Advanced Optical Materials journal.
28.09.2020
New Dean of Biotech Mikhail Kurushkin about the Future of the Faculty
Before the start of this academic year, the Faculty of Food Biotechnology and Engineering got a new name and is now the Faculty of Biotechnologies (or Biotech). ITMO.NEWS talked to Mikhail Kurushkin, the newly appointed dean of the faculty about his plans for Biotech’s future development.
23.09.2020
ITMO Researchers Present New Inventions at AGRORUS-2020 Expo
Earlier this month, St. Petersburg hosted the annual international agricultural exhibition and trade fair AGRORUS-2020, which showcased the achievements of Russia’s top agricultural companies. ITMO University staff took part in a series of roundtable discussions and conferences held as part of the event’s business program.
15.09.2020
ITMO Scientists are on the Verge of Designing Pathogen-Based Drug Delivery Systems
Researchers have created drug delivery systems based on hollow calcium carbonate particles, resembling the E. coli K12 bacterium in shape. This approach may potentially allow further development of carriers that can be perceived by pathogens as their own cells, integrate into bacterial biofilms, and release a therapeutic agent in a controlled manner, when necessary.
11.09.2020
Cutting-Edge Science With Roots in Ancient Rome: All About Nanophotonics
Nanotechnologies have been a hot topic for over 15 years now, while nanophotonics still remains known to the rare few. It is a brand new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of optics, laser physics, materials science, physical chemistry, physics, and chemistry of solids, nanostructures, and nanotechnologies. What does this discipline study and where can this research be applied? In this article, Ivan Toftul and George Zograf, PhD students at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering, help us answer these questions.
09.09.2020
ITMO Resident LLS Company Develops Lab for Working with Laser and Optical Equipment
At the laboratory, company’s staff and ITMO students can do research, testing, and assemble components and equipment. ITMO.NEWS spoke with the company’s founder and CEO Nikita Burov and the head of its engineering team Egor Serduk about its capabilities, results, and plans for the future.
07.09.2020
New SCAMT Project: Citizen Science, Alternative Power Sources And Distributed Lab
ITMO’s SCAMT and Kuban State University (KubSU) launch a citizen science project Internet of Bacteria. Its goal is to collect data on bacteria that produce electric energy, and the soils these inhabit.
03.09.2020
ITMO University Scientists Develop a Tool for Wireless Charging of Multiple Devices
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics and Engineering managed to achieve simultaneous power transfer at various frequencies with the help of a metasurface. It will allow us to simultaneously charge devices from different manufacturers with different power transfer standards. The paper was published in Applied Physics Letters.
31.08.2020
One Summer and Three Schools: ITMO Master’s Student Wins Poster Session At Biophotonics Summer School
Anastasia Lazareva has presented a report on the generation of reactive oxygen species with hybrid structures based on CdSe quantum dots and thermally annealed titanium butoxide. She received positive feedback from experts as well as offers to collaborate.
26.08.2020
ITMO Scientists Use Computer Vision Technologies and Neural Networks to Assess Meditation Efficiency
The algorithm created by ITMO researchers can assess a person’s psycho-emotional state based on a smartphone video of a meditation session. It tracks evenness of breath, body positioning and limb movements. The research results were published in Future Internet.
24.08.2020