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• Picture of the Week: Magneto-Active Glass-Ceramics

  This material allows scientists to create important elements for optical isolators to be applied in optic communication lines. In the picture, you can see the way it glows in a magnetic field.

  18.09.2020

• 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

• ITMO Chemists Created a New Functional Material for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Potential Use

  The new substance luminesces in the visible area and contains radicals in its structure. Research work continues, but the first results have already been published in Chemistry: The European Journal.

  10.09.2020

• Picture of the Week: Polycrystals of a New Material Created at ITMO University

  Those are polycrystals of a functional organic material called melamine-barbiturate. This material is interesting because of its crystal structure. All of its molecules are almost of the same size and are connected by hydrogen bonds placed at an angle of 120º.  

  04.09.2020

• ITMO Graduate Anastasia Tukmakova on Her Path in Science, Thermoelectricity, and New Materials

  What is thermoelectricity? How do scientists create new functional materials and smart systems in this field? Anastasia Tukmakova discussed relevant studies and dream projects in this interview with ITMO.NEWS.

  30.07.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Become First in Russia to Grow a Three-Dimensional Gallous Oxide Single-Crystal Ingot

  The resulting semiconductor can be used in power electronics, solar-blind photodetectors, and other devices. The researchers have spent approximately five years in order to create the first Russian three-dimensional monocrystal.

  03.07.2020

• Promising Materials, Reservoir Computing and Li-Fi: Research at ITMO’s International Research Center of Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics

  Since the time of its foundation, researchers of ITMO’s International Research Center of Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics have succeeded in publishing over 600 research articles, getting over one and a half billion rubles in funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Russian Science Foundation, and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and completing 36 major projects, international-level projects included. As part of an Open Day, researchers from the center’s six laboratories and its head Alexey Romanov spoke about its structure, international research activities, and project work.

  24.06.2020

• Researchers Develop Material Capable of Being Transparent or Reflective in IR Spectrum

  Modern optical devices require constant tuning of their light interaction settings. Lenses need to change focus, lidars have to emit and receive light at different angles. For that purpose, there exist various mechanical apparatuses that shift lenses, rotate reflectors, and move emitters. But what if they all were to become unnecessary? An international research team that includes staff members of ITMO University and the University of Exeter have proposed a new metamaterial capable of changing its optical properties without any mechanical input. This development could result in a significant improvement in the reliability of complex optical devices while making them cheaper to manufacture. The study was featured on the cover of the May 2020 issue of Optica.

  25.05.2020

• A Tour of Testa Center, GE’s Biotech R&D Facility in Uppsala, Sweden

  A voice recorder, a pen, some paper, and a smartphone: with all the journalistic essentials packed, we’re heading off for Sweden to learn about innovations in life sciences. What does it cost to create a molecule, how can mini-factories bring profit, and why do 3D-printers help accelerate production? Read on and find out.

  24.03.2020

• ITMO University Professor Joins Nanomaterials as Special Issue's Guest Editor

  Today, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists around the globe seem to have immersed themselves in the world of nanostructures, which promises us materials for unique lasers, remarkably efficient solar cells, quantum computers, and high-resolution monitors. But how efficiently can modern physics explain all the processes taking place in the nanoworld? Do theoretical and experimental physicists have enough reliable and simple tools to solve fundamental problems concerning nanomaterials? These questions are the subject of the special issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Nanomaterials". Its guest editor is Anatoly Fedorov, the head of the International Research and Education Center for Physics of Nanostructures and a professor at ITMO University.

  18.03.2020