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• ITMO Researchers Publish Review on Perovskite Research

  …rable efficiency losses. Periodic perovskite structures are produced using the cheapest technology of nanoimprint lithography which is widely used in the polymer industry. For instance, one can use it to produce photonic crystals or metasurfaces, i.e. planar structures with optical resonances. These are already being used for creating lasers with distributed feedback…

  10.08.2018

• Dire Straits and Silver Linings: a Syrian Student's Journey to ITMO

  …yria there are five large universities with almost all areas of study. Each speciality has a separate faculty and building. However, in Russia, there are many universities and institutes, each offering different areas of study. The other major difference is that Syrian students are graded on a scale of 0-to-100, while in Russia they are graded out of 5. As a r…

  09.08.2018

• Profilaktika.Media - Russia’s First Media Project on Cancer

  … still Master’s students in a science communication program, we discussed our future title’s structure, and decided on using a wide range of topics. By all means, oncology remains our main focus, but even this topic is now associated with many misconceptions and myths. Turning a blind eye to them would’ve been plain stupid. We still have few sources of information ab…

  09.08.2018

• MSU Student on Working in Different Laboratories and Doing Internship at ITMO

  …erials. First, we planned to work on a three-dimensional display, but soon realized that it was not that simple. So we decided to develop a hydrophobic coating for solar cells instead. The coating can be compared to a lotus: if you let a drop of water fall onto the surface of the lotus leaf, the drop will stay right there, the leaf won’t absorb it,” says Alexander. “…

  09.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 11-12

  … have a chance to listen to a concert and watch lots of decorated boats cruising down the river. The show starts at 1 pm. Entrance is free. Or attend the Fontanka SUP Festival instead and see athletes in funny costumes surfing down the Fontanka under 14 bridges! The show kicks off at 10:30am and ends at 1:30pm. Entrance is free. This Sunday, the 300th Anniversary …

  08.08.2018

• Blood Nanofilters and Graphene Gas Sensors: “Big Challenges” Summer Camp

  …ructure arrays. A simple UV diode is used as a radiation unit. Developing the photoresist deletes the spheres, which in its turn forms an array of micro or nanocavities,” explains Mikhail Zhukov. To proceed with this project, the students prepared a special room which they had to protect  from external light exposure as this could have lead to changes in the…

  08.08.2018

• Researchers Developed Effective MR Coil for Preclinical Studies

  …y. Currently, researchers plan to continue working on a variety of coils for various preclinical studies. Reference: Small‐animal, whole‐body imaging with metamaterial‐inspired RF coil. Mikhail Zubkov, Anna A. Hurshkainen et al. NMR in Biomedicine, 26 June 2018…

  08.08.2018

• Peterhof: a Perfect Spot for a Late Summer Trip

  …rically, the founding of Peterhof dates back to the city's very first decades: its first canals were constructed in 1715. Originally, Peter the First planned to place 22 fountains along the waterway that would've been themed after Esop's fables. Still, the original concept changed many times, and it wasn't until the 19th century that the ensemble that we now know was…

  07.08.2018

• Per Aspera Ad Astra: ITMO.STARS Contest Results

  …ns were submitted by school students from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Veliky Novgorod, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Tver, Tomsk, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and other Russian cities. There was only one criterion for participation: you have to get the minimal Unified State Exam score (in mos…

  07.08.2018

• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

  …rojects that everyone considers to be unprofitable and with no real chance of success. One example of this is his never-ending quest for reusable rockets. Although it works against him by dragging down the productivity and profits of his enterprise, he clearly won’t rest until he fulfills his rocket reusability goal. Which questions are left to be solved befor…

  07.08.2018