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High School Laboratories for Nanotechnologies
In early 2018, ITMO’s resident NT-SPb finished equipping five regional quantoriums with their products. These new “High School Laboratories for Nanotechnology” will become a space for high school students to study a new field of science, as well as conduct interdisciplinary projects that stem from real nanoindustry tasks. Aleksander Golubok, Professor at the Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials, and Ivan Mukhin, Research Fellow at the Metamaterials Laboratory, talk about high-tech equipment that is safe for children, the new School Laboratories for Nanotechnologies and the prospects of this new undertaking.
15.02.2018
ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Science is Our Common Language'
Tatiana Itina, PhD, of the Laboratoire Hubert Curien at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), recently worked with ITMO’s International Laboratory "Laser Micro-and Nanotechnologies” on a project titled “Mechanisms Involved in Ultrashort Laser Interactions Used for Ultra-precise Nano-structuring of Optical Materials”. Ms. Itina shared with us her insights on building an international career, succeeding as a female researcher, and on what’s next in science.
04.01.2018
New Nanoobject Construction Method Opens Road to Complex Optics
ITMO University scientists have developed a new approach to nanoobject construction, one that provides the opportunity to study and predict how deformations and defects in the crystal lattice affect the optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals. This model allows them to calculate both the linear and non-linear optical properties of various nanoobjects such as: nanorolls, nanorods, nanoplates and others. The method can be used to create optical materials and devices with new functionalities with uses in drug delivery, chiral exciton-based devices and chiral catalysis devices, and areas such as biosensing and spintronics. Results of this research were published in Nano Letters and used in the writing of other articles in ACS Nano.
02.10.2017
ITMO Student Joins Research at XFEL
When the European X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) was inaugurated on September 1, a whole range of opportunities became available to the world's scientists - opportunities they could only dream of before. Soon, the new facility will contribute to new advances that seemed impossible due to the lack of equipment this powerful. Dmitrii Potorochin, a PhD student at ITMO University, will become the first to go study at a joint educational program by ITMO University and Freiberg University of Mining and Technology to work on new projects for XFEL. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he spoke with us about his expectations, his scientific career and what one has to do to participate in major scientific research projects
12.09.2017
Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo
This summer, the Sirius educational center for talented children in Sochi has held its usual session on project work, followed by the Nanograd summer school. ITMO University’s team, including specialists and postgraduate students from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and staff of Technopark resident, company NT-SPb, took part.
10.08.2017
Nanotech From Birth: How Future Engineers Are Made at ITMO’s “Quantoriums”.
Some of ITMO University’s staff has become a federal tutor in a childrens’ extracurricular education program organized by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The university and the agency have paired up to create the ITMO Nanoquantum program. The university will train tutors who will teach at “Quantoriums” – children’s technoparks that will soon open all over the country. They are intended to serve as a modern version of the “Palaces of the Pioneers” from the olden days where children were brought up as future engineers and inventors. The students at “Quantoriums” will be able to choose among 13 fields of study that correspond to Russia’s scientific and technological priorities of the next 20 to 30 years.
07.06.2017
Rusnano Head Chubais: Five New Nanotech Clusters in Russia by 2027
In the next ten years the Russian nanoindustry will be expanded with five new technological clusters. These are: windpower, solid-waste recycling, flexible electronics, industrial energy storage and nanomodified material. They will join the six clusters that have already been established in Russia since 2007. Anatoly Chubais, head of “Rusnano”, spoke about this at an open lecture in ITMO University. During the talk he analyzed the development of the Russian nanoindustry over the last ten years and gave his forecast on the industry for the upcoming 10 years.
05.06.2017
Young Scientists from ITMO University Receive Presidential Grants
On May 30, during a special ceremony, 53 young scientists from St. Petersburg's universities and institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg were given presidential grants. ITMO University was represented by five researchers who received grants in the Physics and Astronomy category. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the researchers shared about their research.
05.06.2017
Two-in-One: Why Does One Need to Combine Advantages of Electronic and Probe Microscopes?
NT-Spb, one of ITMO Technopark’s residents, developed equipment, which fuses together the best properties of electronic and probe microscopes – it allows increasing its efficiency and capacity. As of now, the equipment has no counterparts in Russia.
19.04.2017
Nanotechnologies for Teenagers: How ITMO Promotes Physics
What are CD's made of? Why are butterfly wings really gray? Why don’t lotus flowers absorb water? Can one write his name nanoscale? And how much space would Tolstoy's "War and Peace" take on a sheet of paper, if written like that? At ITMO University, we know how to explain nanotechnology to children in such a way that they would know that it can be both interesting and promising for one's future career. How science enters real business and why schoolers can be better than engineers at solving particular tasks — read that and more in our article!
28.03.2017