Young Researcher Acquaints Putin with Competencies of Ural Scientific and Educational Center

16:32, July 11, 2019

Yulia Kuznetsova told the President about the University scientists’ research projects, which were highly appreciated by him

Development of new technologies and materials is one of the main competencies of the UrFU-initiated Ural Scientific-educational Center. The President’s attention was brought to the topic by Yulia Kuznetsova, postgraduate student of UrFU Institute of New Materials and Technologies, at the meeting that took place in UrFU last Tuesday.

In particular, Yulia noted that the only beryllium deposit in Russia is located in the Sverdlovsk region, and it allows for production and industrial mining. The university, according to the young researcher, could become the general contractor.

‘Our laboratory is engaged in the production of just such materials, and creation of the Scientific and Educational center will give us a unique opportunity to realize the full cycle of work from production technology and the study of properties, from completely new materials to their commercialization and actual implementation into practice,’ said Yulia Kuznetsova.

Moreover, in the vanguard now is the development of composite materials, which include not just these rare materials and rare-earth metals, but also the most advanced and new forms of nano-materials, including the new forms of carbon: nanotubes, 2D-coating, quantum dots, and more.

‘New materials are one of the most important areas today,’ Putin said. ‘Of course, without them, nothing is impossible neither in medicine, nor in the aircraft industry, nor in space. There has long been the task of developing this area within the country, on our own base. Obviously, you can and should take a direct part in this, because it is near, and you have the necessary level of competence.’

Last Wednesday at INNOPROM International Industrial Trade Fair, rectors of five leading universities of the Urals, directors of four institutes of the Ural Division of the RAS and leaders of largest companies of the region agreed on cooperation within the scope of activity of the Ural World-class Interregional Scientific and Educational Center.

Scientific cooperation with global centers, academic institutions and leading regional and international corporations will be the key mechanism of the Scientific and Educational Center “Advanced Industrial Technologies, New Materials and Energy” created in the Urals. On Tuesday, also at INNOPROM, signatures under the agreement were put by the heads of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions.