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April 20th, 2012 Skolkovo - Russia's ‘scientific capital' to be Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The strategic goal of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre is to concentrate international intellectual capital, thereby stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies. In the course of implementation of the project, companies that are engaged in innovative development are discovered. After a selection process, some of these become project participants of the centre. They are provided with all assistance necessary for development. The Skolkovo Foundation and its partners transform the infrastructure, resources and other possibilities of the centre, into effective services for companies that are project participants Read the Whole Article

December 7th, 2011 Laser crystals from Novosibirsk Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The know-how of the scientists from Novosibirsk Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (NIIC SB RAS) provide laser and scintillation crystals of extremely high quality to the world's electronic industry. Read the Whole Article

October 1st, 2011 Sixth Annual Science Festival Comes to Moscow in October Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru This year's festival once again centers upon the pressing problems of scientific research in Russia: who needs it? who pays for it? what does "scientific research" actually mean? Focusing on Natural Sciences, the Festival becomes a kind of light-hearted report compiled by the leading scientists and researchers for the society's consumption. Read the Whole Article

September 28th, 2011 NT-MDT: From instrumentation to life. Nanoeducators Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru I am starting this article with the exciting news I concluded my previous story: NT-MDT Co. recently announced that NanoEducator II - a new generation of training scientific laboratories for nanotechnology teaching - "…is the winner of the 49th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year". This prestigious award (not the first one for the Company) was a successive recognition of a long and fruitful activity of the NT-MDT team in the field of not only nanoinstrumentation, but also nanoeducation. Read the Whole Article

July 21st, 2011 NT-MDT: From instrumentation to life. Educational efforts of enlightening activity. Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Not only NT-MDT is an instrumentation company, but it designs products for educators, promotes school nanoprograms in various disciplines, and tries to wear many nanotechnology hats. Their mission is "to enable researchers, engineers and developers to conduct nanoscale research by creating ever more perfect nanotechnology instrumentation. Along the way, we maintain a global perspective, always taking into consideration the needs of a student in the classroom, a researcher on the cutting edge in the laboratory, and practicalities of industrial R&D". Read the Whole Article

June 13th, 2011 2nd International School - Nano2011:Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies in Living Systems.Safety and Nanomedicine. September 19 - 24, 2011, (Moscow Region, Russia) Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru RUSNANO and Lomonosov Moscow State University organize the 2nd International School "Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies in Living Systems. Safety and Nanomedicine", which will be held on September 19-24 at Holiday Center "Zarya", Moscow region, Russia Read the Whole Article

May 18th, 2011 Siberia- born technology of drinking water protection Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru AquaVallis is a new nanofiber-based electropositive filter material that allows water purification by removing viruses and bacteria of size many times smaller than the average pore size of the filter. Read the Whole Article

April 30th, 2011 Russian Silicon Valley: to be or not... Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Russian flagship project - creating a Russian version of Silicon Valley in Skolkovo, near Moscow - was officially started last spring. But a year on, there have been no sound results, apart from a number of memorandums of understanding signed between the Skolkovo Fund and foreign companies, including Microsoft. Read the Whole Article

November 10th, 2010 Advanced Integrated Scanning Tools for Nano-Technology Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru AIST-NT (Advanced Integrated Scanning Tools for Nano-Technology) is a young dynamic company founded by former employees of NT-MDT with the simple goal of satisfying our customers' needs and exceeding their expectations. Read the Whole Article

November 8th, 2010 What makes major Siberian IT hub tick? Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia, but it was only officially opened to foreigners in 1990. Today, wooden houses which are hundreds of years old still line the streets. These are contrasted by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to Tomsk, the home of Siberia's first university. Read the Whole Article

July 22nd, 2010 Connector Optics has made the first new hi-tech product delivery Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Connector Optics LLC is a hi-tech innovative company which was established in 2009 in St.Petersburg to launch the production of optical components for ultra-high speed data transmission via optical fiber networks. The co-investors are RUSNANO, VI Systems GmbH (Germany), and OJSC URALSIB (Russia). Read the Whole Article

July 10th, 2010 Next step in nanotechnology instrumentation: Atomic Force Microscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis Integration Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru During last 20-30 years the instruments that explore or probe the surface of ultra-small samples have steadily proliferated. Physicists, chemists, and molecular biologists working in nanoscience have had to familiarize themselves with microscopes that use thermal, magnetic, capacitive, and electrochemical properties. What is next for this amazing family of SPM? Read the Whole Article

March 31st, 2010 NT-MDT demonstrates a new approach to quartz crystal microbalance design and application Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measures a mass by detecting the change in resonance frequency of a quartz crystal resonator. The resonance is disturbed by the addition or removal of a small mass at the surface of the acoustic resonator. Frequency measurements are easily made to high precision; thus it is easy to measure mass densities down to a level of below 1 ng/cm2. Let us elaborate on this brief description. The QCM is a simple, cost effective, high-resolution mass sensing technique based upon the piezoelectric effect. This technique provides a wide detection range: from small molecules or polymer films to much larger masses deposited on the surface. These can be complex arrays of biopolymers and bio macromolecules, even whole cells. In addition, QCM can provide information about the energy dissipating properties of the bound surface mass. Another important and unique feature of the technique is the ability to measure mass and energy dissipation properties of films while simultaneously carrying out electrochemistry on solution samples. These measurements can describe the flow of electro polymerization of a film. They can also reveal the ions or solution transport within a film during changes in the film environment or state, including the oxidation reaction for an electro active film driven by the underlying surface potential. The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the application of QCM techniques to the study of a wide range of molecular systems at the solution-surface interface, in particular, biopolymer and biochemical systems. Read the Whole Article

March 7th, 2010 Precision modification of nanotopography of polymer surface with ultraviolet radiation Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru In the Institute of Physical Problems, a method has been developed and successfully tested which is capable of smoothing asperities of poly(methyl methacrylate) surface in nanometre or subnanometre scales by means of 124 nm wavelength vacuum ultraviolet (VUV). Read the Whole Article

January 22nd, 2010 Victor Bykov (NT-MDT): It was hard, but we continue to grow! Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The interview with Victor Bykov, General Manager of one of the leaders in Russian High Tech - NT-MDT Group of companies- was published in December 2009 by a Russian Moscow region newspaper "41". Read the Whole Article

November 30th, 2009 Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The A.E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IrICh) called the Irkutsk Institute of Organic Chemistry until recently, is one of the first academic institutes in the Eastern Siberia. It was founded in 1957. Professor M. F. Shostakovsky of the Moscow Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ac. Sci. USSR, Corresponding Member, Ac. Sci. USSR, was appointed first director-organizer. A close associate of Academician A. E. Favorsky (St. Petersburg, Moscow), a classic of organic chemistry, Shostakovsky laid the basis for dynamic development of the largest Russian classic chemical school - the school of Favorsky on the Siberian ground. Soon the Institute held a world lead in the chemistry of acetylene and silicon (especially, of silico-acetylenic compounds). In 2000 the Institute was given name after A.E. Favorsky. Read the Whole Article

September 9th, 2009 South Urals polysilicon industry may be the beginning of local photovoltaics Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The photovoltaics may soon come to the South Urals region of Russia. The ambitious plans of the regional authorities and business community envisage the establishment of a cluster whose ventures will be making everything needed for the solar power engineering. Read the Whole Article

August 21st, 2009 Victor Petrik -Russian Edison of Nanotechnology Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Dr. Petrik, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, has led scientific accomplishments in the fields of nano-carbon structures, nuclear physics, carbon sorbents, anti-Stokes Compounds, and crystallography and optical ceramics. Read the Whole Article

July 14th, 2009 Flux growth of GaN is challenging epitaxy: Russian scientists rush with the new technology Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru The new method of GaN monocrystal structures fabrication with extremely low spatial defect frequency. Read the Whole Article

June 17th, 2009 Solar Cells: New technology for cheap crystalline silicon fabrication using microwave plasma discharge Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Dramatic oil prices increase that we watched in 2008 called for alternative competing energy sources. One of them is sustainable solar energy, which in most applications is being converted to electricity using silicon photovoltaic modules. Polycrystalline silicon is a key component of solar panel construction. The photovoltaic solar industry is growing rapidly but is likely going to be very limited due to severe shortages and allocations of the polysilicon material. Read the Whole Article

June 6th, 2009 RUSNANO and RENOVA Group sign investment agreement to set up a Russia's largest solar modules manufacturing facility Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Anatoly Chubais, CEO of RUSNANO and Victor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of RENOVA Group, signed Contract on investment and execution of participation rights (Investment Agreement) for the newly established company during St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Read the Whole Article

June 3rd, 2009 Rusnano brings innovation to financing Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru Leading the move towards creating an innovative economy became tougher for Rusnano as investment capital began drying up. But the state run engine of local innovation is looking at diversifying its sources of finance. Read the Whole Article

May 28th, 2009 Russian Angstrom Group and JSC SITRONICS might start nanochips manufacturing Eugene Birger Principal Analyst, NanoNewsNet.ru There is a certain possibility that the Angstrom microelectronics plant near Moscow could launch a new production line - the chips under 90 nm technology fabrication. The Intel Corp. received a proposal to become a technological partner for "Angstrom Group": www.angstrem.ru. Read the Whole Article