Participants in the session “New materials and chemistry: the most important component of ensuring Russia’s technological leadership,” held on the first day of the IV Congress of Young Scientists, discussed issues of the country’s technological leadership until 2030 and for the future until 2036 in the field of new materials and chemistry.
In the opening remarks, the moderator of the session was the President of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” Mikhail Kovalchuk noted the high relevance of the topic under discussion and identified the most important areas where developments in modern materials science are in demand: nuclear energy, space, aircraft and shipbuilding, medicine, electronics, Arctic exploration, etc.
“To develop absolutely any industry, we need two things: energy and materials. Only active work in this direction will provide the country with technological leadership and sovereignty.”the moderator emphasized.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Mikhail Yurin spoke about the current work of the ministry in this area and about plans for the future, which are considered at strategic sessions of the government. He is convinced “without the foundation – chemistry – the functioning of the new economy is impossible” and informed that the State Council is preparing for technological leadership in four areas: chemistry, biotechnology, composites and rare earth elements. “We need to build our own domestic new technological chains from material to final product”the speaker concluded.
First Deputy General Director of JSC Rosatom Science Alexey Dub informed the participants about the company’s work with new materials under various conditions (temperature, pressure, environment), a qualitative reduction in the time required to create new materials from 8 years to 3 months, and an extension of the nanosteel life from 30 to 60 years. He also considers the issue of creating a national database on new materials urgent.
Deputy General Director of United Engine Corporation JSC Mikhail Bakradze reported that “Russia is one of the five countries in the world that are capable of producing aviation gas turbine engines. Such engines have more than 10,000 components, and the work to create them takes from 7 to 10 years. The transition to fifth-generation engines requires new materials – single-crystal casting of blades, high-temperature polymer composites, thermoplastic polymers, new ceramics, specialized equipment, and so on.”
General Director of JSC “AeroComposite” Anatoly Gaidansky spoke about the implementation of the project to create the MS-21 medium-range aircraft and the work on import substitution of parts for its airframe and engines. He’s sure that “By the end of 2025, the aircraft will be completely domestic, despite the sanctions. We are solving the problem of making an airplane only within our country, and in 10-15 years we will definitely become a world leader.”the speaker concluded.
Deputy General Director for Engineering in the administrative apparatus of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC Boris Bogomolov reminded that “The entire fleet of the country – military and civilian – uses special materials. Historically, we have a lot of groundwork in this area and we are successfully replacing old materials with new ones: ship hulls made of fiberglass are unique. They provide us with significant advantages and additional opportunities to reduce construction time, stealth, speed, and so on. The direction of creating new marine engines is also promising. Thanks to fundamental science as a driving factor, we have serious developments in this area for the development of the entire shipbuilding industry.”says Boris Bogomolov.
General Director of the Central Research Institute of Structural Materials “Prometheus” named after I.V. Gorynin National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” Alexander Kashtanov reported on the institute’s work to replace 24 grades of existing steel with 5 grades of new steel, incl. and for nuclear reactors, which are radiation resistant for 60 years, extendable to 100 years. In addition, high-strength, high-nitrogen steel has been created, incl. and for leading icebreakers.
The speakers in their speeches also highlighted the issues of unifying materials for use in various fields, creating new technologies for processing new materials, incl. additive technologies that are used from medicine to space, issues of micro-, small- and large-scale chemistry. All speakers believe that it is necessary to create research and production associations to develop pilot projects in the field of new materials and chemistry.
Detailed information is on the website congress.science.rf.
Based on materials from the press service of the Roscongress Foundation.
Source: www.nkj.ru
