We hasten to congratulate our colleague Shlapakova Lada, who became the laureate of the Tomsk Region Prize in the field of education, science, healthcare and culture👏🥇

Lada is developing and researching smart materials for the regeneration of nervous tissue in our laboratory 🔬

We wish our colleague even more success, new discoveries and victories!🥳👩‍🔬

We welcome future colleagues!

This post is for those who enter graduate school or students who are looking for an interesting and promising topic for scientific work!
We are pleased to announce that within the framework of our Center we are announcing a set of active, result-oriented students and graduate students!
There is a bonus system for applicants to graduate school at our Center - upon enrollment, a candidate for graduate school receives
+100 points to your points (the number of such places is limited), which significantly increases the chances of admission
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The key advantages of our Research Center are:

• interdisciplinarity of research, which makes it possible for graduates of almost all specialties to find themselves: chemistry, physics, materials science, nanomaterials, etc.;
• the possibility of performing fundamental research within one of the priority areas with the prospect of practical implementation of the results obtained;
• active participation in the implementation of international and Russian projects;
• motivational system for the development and acquisition of new knowledge;
• the opportunity to participate in internships, advanced training courses in Russia and the world;
• the possibility of direct communication with leading scientists in the field of research of the Center;

Example: cooperation with Andrey Leonidovich Kholkin (University of Aveiro, Portugal, H-index 63) within the framework of a mega-grant
https://megagrant.ru/labs/scientists/scientist_rus_82..

• supervisory system (feedback from experienced colleagues - employees of the Center).

All questions can be asked to the director of our Center - Surmenev Roman Anatolyevich.

We'll be waiting for your CVs.
surmenev@tpu.ru or rsurmenev@mail.ru, telephone (3822) 701-777, ext. 1521

We hasten to congratulate our colleague, Roman Chernozem, on winning the 2023 competition for RSF grants in the RSF priority area of activity “Conducting fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research by international scientific teams” (together with the State Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC))

The Foundation supported Roman’s project “New magnetoelectric nanomaterials for wireless electrical stimulation in neuroregenerative medicine”, which will be carried out jointly with colleagues from Sichuan University🔬🧫

The project implementation is planned for three years🧑🏻‍🔬🧑🏻‍🏫

We sincerely congratulate Roman and wish him to obtain significant scientific results!🥳👏

We finish the working week with the start of a marathon about our new articles in international scientific journals 📖🤓

We have accumulated enough of them, and we are happy to continue to share the results of our research with you🔬

Today we will tell you about our article "Geometrical features and mechanical properties of the sheet-based gyroid scaffolds with functionally graded porosity manufactured by electron beam melting" in Materials Today Communications (IF=3,66)🥳👨‍💻👩‍🏫

📍We will talk about gradient porous titanium alloy scaffolds already known to you, obtained using 3D printing by electron beam melting👩‍🔬

But this time the samples were made for the first time using the waffle pattern to achieve the smallest possible wall thickness. Thus, the test samples were sheet gyroid structures with three different scale factors of 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2.

📍The objective of this work was👇

✅ Investigate the effect of the gradient building strategy on porosity, wall thickness, quasi-elastic properties and the distribution of trapped powder within the samples

📍Learn more about the problem we solved🧑🏻‍🔬

✅ Residual powder agglomerates were found inside all structures requiring post-production processing.
Therefore, to fully evaluate scaffles using X-ray computed tomography, we visualized powder agglomerations and evaluated the average wall thickness, wall-to-wall distance, micro- and macroporosity. We found that the initial cleaning by the powder recovery system was insufficient to completely remove particles.

Next, an additional dry ultrasonic vibration (USV) treatment was applied, which proved to be successful for gyroids with scale factors of 0.05 and 0.1.

📍How did the mechanical properties change?👨‍🔧

✅ We evaluated the mechanical properties of the samples, including quasi-elastic gradients and the first maximum compressive strength of the structures before and after USI, to prove that additional processing does not lead to structural damage.

👉 Thus, we found that the calculated quasi-elastic gradients for gyroids with different scaling factors range from 2.5 to 2.9 GPa, while the first maximum compressive strength varies from 52.5 to 59.8 MPa, compressive displacement stress varies from 46.2 to 53.2 MPa.

We hasten to congratulate our colleagues Danila Koptsev and Artyom Baksheev on winning the Student Startup competition, which means that our guys received grant funding from the Innovation Promotion Fund and will be able to implement their idea🥳
Learn more about the winning project👇

The startup "Biotechnologies of Siberia" has a long history of development. Initially, it was a project of schoolchildren who wanted to try to create something new.

📍 At the heart of everything was chlorella - a microscopic algae with many different properties, from photosynthesis to an abundant content of proteins, vitamins and more.

📍Many uses of chlorella by humans have been devised:
✅ pet food
✅ fertilizer for plants,
✅ bioadditive for humans,
The use of chlorella to saturate rooms with oxygen and purify the air.

However, the study showed that people in their home region most urgently need to improve the efficiency of the agricultural sector, therefore, it was decided to start with animal feed and fertilizer for plants.

📍At the moment, a method for the industrial cultivation of chlorella has already been developed, and it takes another year to fully introduce the product into agriculture.

Follow our news, we will definitely share the results of the project