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• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #24

• In the Palm of Your Hand: ITMO Students Develop Cheap Compact Keyboard for Different Devices

  …nificantly more affordable than its analogs. The keyboard connects to the main device, a smartphone or tablet, via a USB Type-C interface and is assembled from accessible materials (the prototype’s total production costs are less than 1,000 rubles). Only 16.5 cm by 7.5 cm in size, the keyboard can fit into the palm of a hand. This is partly because the new device …

  10.02.2023

• ITMO Teams Up With Charging Systems Manufacturer To Develop Russia’s First Wireless Electric Car Charger

  …lochkov. “At the School of Physics and Engineering we spent five years researching wireless power transfer. We first began looking into it while studying how to use metamaterials and metasurfaces to improve chargers of medium-power mobile devices. Back then, we were just figuring out the basics, but now is the time to find real-life applications for our research…

  07.02.2023

• Natural Waste to Slow Down Climate Change: ITMO Fellow Randa Ghonim on Cleaning Oil Spills With Green Technologies

  …nces in the density between  oil and water, oil doesn’t sink but floats on the surface. This prevents sunlight from reaching marine flora and fauna, leading to its death and deterioration. There are several approaches to cleaning up oil spills, including mechanical, chemical, physicochemical, biological, and others. We believe that it’s important to use simplified…

  06.02.2023

• ITMO PhD Student Creates Prosthetic Rehabilitation Aid for People With Motor Disorders

  …, Artem Meinov plans to register his idea as a medical rather than a rehabilitation device because it will let him improve his product, for instance, by using hypoallergenic materials to keep users’ hands sweat- and allergy-free.  “The prosthesis has all the chances to enter the market. In fact, some practicing medical specialists and manufacturers have already …

  03.02.2023

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Obvodny Canal

  …rnings of archeologists, were sent to become curbs for Ligovsky Prospect. It is said that from that very moment on, a curse befell this place, and once in every 10 years, a mysterious voice calls on passersby to come down into the water. Centuries later, the area remains gloomy and gray and keeps its industrial vibe to the full extent. Nevertheless, there are stil…

  03.02.2023

• EMI Is the Answer: ITMO Experts on How To Teach Your Subject in English

  …e EMI standards, at least 70% of all interactions between students and the lecturer, as well as among students, has to be conducted in English. It is advisable to take this criterion into account when forming student groups – ideally, students shouldn’t be using their native language during collaborative tasks. Another rule to follow is active student engagement thro…

  02.02.2023

• ITMO Students Make a Battery That Can Be Wirelessly Recharged up to 500 Times

  …The afterlife of a battery Because of their various toxic components (lithium, zinc, nickel, cobalt, etc.) single-use batteries have to be properly recycled – usually they are collected at special recycling points. There, all the remaining useful parts, such as nonferrous metals and their salts, are extracted to be used again. For instance, manganese dioxide becom…

  01.02.2023

• Reusable Sensor for Early Detection of Kidney Stones Developed at ITMO

  …h can become negatively or positively charged in a solution. The urate oxidase, settled between the layers of polyelectrolyte, is responsible for detecting uric acid in a biomaterial, whereas the charged polyelectrolytes can immobilize the urate oxidase as a magnet to make it catch uric acid molecules.  “We struggled to pick the polyelectrolytes so we had to tho…

  31.01.2023

• ITMO Fellow Eugene Smirnov On Colloid Chemistry Applications: From Space Telescopes to FoodTech

  … about many everyday things. Take milk, for example, where water, fat, and protein are combined in a way that we treat it as a homogenous liquid. I also have a background in materials science, so part of my activities in industry and academia were connected to chemistry of new materials: I worked in two startups, where I developed titan…

  30.01.2023