On September 7th, at 15:00, a full-time solemn meeting of the Academic Council of the ISPM RAS will be held, dedicated to the anniversary of the institute.

In 2021, it was 40 years since the day when the ISPM was organized by Academician Nikolai Sergeyevich Enikolopov.

The history of the Institute is a glorious path of service to science and the country, its task is to conduct fundamental theoretical and experimental studies of polymer compounds that are of great importance both for fundamental science in general and for the development of domestic industry.

The agenda:

1. Speech held by the Director of the Institute, corresponding member. RAS S. A. Ponomarenko
2. Speech held by the scientific director of the Institute, corresponding member. RAS A. N. Ozyorina
3. Memories of employees about their work in the institute
4. Unofficial part

A commemorative brochure dedicated to the history of the Institute and its modern achievements will be presented at the event.

The issue №12 of 2020 of the journal "Russian Chemical Reviews" contains review articles: Modern bio and chemical sensors and neuromorphic devices based on organic semiconductors, Supercritical fluids in chemistry and Detonation nanodiamonds: new aspects in the theory and practice of synthesis, properties and applications.

We congratulate our colleagues and wish them stay strong in the pursuit of their goals! 👩‍🔬👨‍💻

Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/0036-021X/89/12

The results of the first joint competition of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the State Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) on the priority area of activity "Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by international scientific teams" have been published.

The expertise of the projects was carried out both from the Russian and Chinese sides independently of each other. The teams that managed to get a positive assessment of experts from both countries were recognized as winners.

Among the 30 winners is a joint project of the Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics and Wuhan University "Development of new non-fullerene acceptor materials based on conjugated oligomers and polymers for highly efficient and stable organic solar cells".

Source: https://www.рнф.рф/news/found/30-sovmestnykh-rossiysko-kitayskikh-kollektivov/

The Organizing Committee cordially invites you to participate in the 8th International Bakeev Conference on Macromolecular Nano-objects and Polymer Nanocomposites, which will be held on December 21-22, 2020 in an online format.

Detailed information is available on the conference website.

Abstracts submissions are accepted until December 17.

Researchers in Laboratory of functional polymer structures ISPM RAS created gas sensors based on the properties of poly(p-xylylene)-titanium thin films.

It was found that the electrical characteristics of films (DC and AC conductivity, capacitance at different frequencies, current attenuation time) depend on the composition of the air. A unique set of electrical parameters allows you to detect individual substances in the atmosphere.

Poly(p-xylylene) – titanium thin film nanocomposites were synthesized by vacuum deposition polymerization and proposed to serve as a gas sensor. They can reversibly and selectively detect several parts per thousand water, ethanol and even n-propyl benzene vapors with short response time. The presence of polar molecules affects conductance and capacitance, while nonpolar vapors such as benzene and toluene have no effect on electrical properties.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under grant agreement № 075-15-2019-1694 (RFMEFI60419×0227) from 22.11.2019. There was an article published in highly-cited scientific journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.

The Ministry of education and science of Russia has announced a competition for grants to conduct research under the leadership of leading scientists. The grant is provided to the winner of the competition as state support for scientific research for 3 years (2021 – 2023) and the creation of a laboratory under the leadership of a leading scientist in the structure of an educational or scientific organization on the basis of which scientific research will be conducted. The maximum grant level is 90 million rubles for the entire period of scientific research (2021-2023).

The corresponding documentation is available on the page of the official website of the Ministry of science and higher education of the Russian Federation, as well as on the website of the megagrant program in Russian and English.

Applications for participation in the competition can be submitted from 10th June 2020 to 3rd August 2020.

Recent results of the ongoing project "Efficient organic light emitting transistors" supported by Russian Science Foundation were published as a full paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. In this work researchers from Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics of ISPM RAS in collaboration with their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science have shown for the first time that targeted introduction of fluorine atoms into molecular structure of thiophene-phenylene oligomers can tune both their electrical and optical characteristics in organic light emitting transistors.

The obtained results can be extended to other families of conjugated oligomers and highlight the efficiency of fluorination for rational design of organic semiconductors for optoelectronic devices.

Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.9b20295

Congratulations to Dr. Tatiana Demina, senior research scientist of the Laboratory of solid phase chemical reactions on winning the competition for the best fundamental research projects conducted jointly by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India! According to the results of the examination carried out independently by the Russian and Indian parties, 43 projects out of 248 applications submitted for the 2019 competition were supported.

Source: https://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/ru/rffi_contest_results/o_2097384

10th October, 2019 at 11:00 in the Conference Hall of ISPM RAS, Prof. Stepan Podzimek (University of Pardubice) will give a lecture on the topic «SEC and FFF with Advanced Detectors for the Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Polymers».

During the second part of the seminar there will be presented results of the study of biodegradable star-shaped polylactides synthesized in the Laboratory of functional polymer structures.

Free admission.

5th International Fall School of Organic Electronics IFSOE-2019 was held on 15-20 September 2019 in the hotel "Soyuz" (Moscow region). This annual event was attended by about a hundred participants, a half of which were young scientists, undergraduate and graduate students. Leading Russian and foreign scientists delivered more than twenty tutorial and invited lectures on the main topics of organic electronics, bioelectronics and robotics, as well as on scientific ethics. Among the foreign participants, whose share this year approached to 50%, the most represented countries were Germany, Italy, great Britain, China and Spain.

The school held a competition for the best oral and poster presentations among young scientists, the winners of which were awarded by diplomas, commemorative albums and new books on organic electronics from one of the sponsors of the event - the global publishing house Wiley. The main sponsor of the school for young scientists was the Russian Science Foundation in the framework of grant No. 19-73-30028, supported by the "Presidential program for support of leading laboratories and infrastructure projects".

Winners of the prize Reaxys Award Russia 2019, established by Elsevier and the Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society were announced on 11 September 2019 г. in Saint-Petersburg at XXI Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry. In the nomination "For significant contribution to the development of the most actively developing scientific topics in the world" (Prominent Cluster), which was awarded for 7 thematic clusters, the winner for significant contribution to the development of the topic "Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED); Solar Cells; Conjugated Polymers" is Sergey Ponomarenko, director and head of the Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics of the Enikolopov Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials or Russian Academy of Sciences.

Sources: http://elsevierscience.ru/news/450/premiya-reaxys-award-russia-2019-prisuzhdena-12-rossijskim-uchenym-v-oblasti-himii-i-nauk-o-materialah and http://www.chemsoc.ru/index.php/107-na-xxi-mendeleevskom-s-ezde-nagrazhdeny-vydayushchiesya-uchenye-khimiki

The Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics of ISPM RAS opens postdoc positions to implement the project "Development of new functional materials for biocompatible organic electronics and robotics" supported by the Russian Science Foundation within the framework of the "Presidential program to support leading laboratories and infrastructure projects”. For detailed information see the Announcement.

More then 3000 scientists all over the world took part at 10th International Conference on Materials for Advance technologies ICMAT-2019 organized by Materials Research Society Singapur on June 23-28, 2019. Among them were researchers and Ph.D. students of ISPM RAS, which delivered invited, oral and poster presentations. Askold Trul, a Ph.D. student of Laboratory of functional materials for organic electronics and photonics, was awarded by a prize for the best poster presentation, which was given by Nobel laureate Prof. Fraser Stoddart during the closing ceremony.

Source of photos: https://icmat2019.mrs.org.sg/photos/

06 June, 2019 at 11:00 in the Conference Hall of ISPM RAS, Prof. Christian Grandfils, Director of Centre Interfacultaire des Biomatériaux" (CEIB) the University of Liège, Belgium will give a lecture "Functionalisation of biodegradable polyesters tailored for bone regeneration".

During lecture main research activities of CEIB, such as material synthesis, processing and characterisation, and in vitro testing, will be described.

This lecture will be primary focused on the optimization of biodegradable aliphatic polyesters which have been functionalized in order to improve their surface and mechanical properties with as final purpose to improve their suitability for bone regeneration.

Free admission.

In what is being billed as the largest-ever effort of its kind, 28 companies have formed the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, which plans to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next five years on projects to keep plastic trash out of the ocean.

The alliance includes some of the world’s largest chemical companies, including BASF, Dow Chemical, and LyondellBasell Industries, as well as consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble and Henkel. But critics say the industry should have acted on plastic waste sooner and that this effort by itself won’t solve the problem.

The initiative launched with a sleek video presentation viewed on the web by more than 500,000 people its first day. Full text see here.

Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/cen-09703-leadcon

The winners of the XV All-Russian competion of youth scientific projects in the field of energy, The Energy of Youth, were awarded by the Global Energy Association in Moscow. In 2018, projects for development of organic solar panels, creation potassium - the ion accumulator and optimization of extraction of hydrocarbons were recognized the bestones. The Award Ceremony was held at the Congress center of Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Yuriy Luponosov, leading researcher of the Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics of ISPM RAS. was awarded in the nomination of Non-traditional Energy. His project is devoted to transparent and flexible solar cells based on new organic materials with enhanced stability.

Source: http://globalenergyprize.org/en/media-room/news/2018/12/http-vesti.energy-journals.ru-ceremoniya-nagrazhdeniya-pobediteley-k1

On Wednedsay, 28 November 2018, a delegation of Korean Institute of Mashinery and Marerials (KIMM), headed by its vice-president Dr. Kern-Yong Kang, visited ISPM RAS.

In the framework of the meeting a Collaborative Forum took place, where representatives of KIMM presented main directions of the institution scientific activity, in particular in the field of mashinery for roll-to-roll and printed electronics.

Researchers of the Laboratory of Functional Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics of ISPM RAS presented their recent scientific reasults in the field of organic electronics. As a result of the meeting it was desided to prepare a Collaborative Research Agreement and to look for possible funding sources for collaborative research in the field of organic and printed electronics.    

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ISPM RAS invites you to participate in the 3rd International Fall School on Organic Electronics (IFSOE-2016). The IFSOE 2016 will cover all key aspects of Organic Electronics to give the attendee a comprehensive view of the field from materials and fundamental physics to devices and applications. The conference will take place in Moscow Region, Hotel Soyuz, September 18-23.

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