ROSNANOPREMII-2010
The Third International Forum on Nanotechnology RUSNANOTECH 2010, which opened on November 1 in Moscow at Expocentre Fairgrounds, brought together outstanding scientists and business representatives from around the world to discuss promising innovative areas of scientific, technical and economic development.
On the last day of the forum, November 3, the ceremony of awarding the RUSNANOPRIZE 2010 international prize and awarding young scientists and researchers in the field of nanotechnology took place.
The RUSNANOPRIZE International Award in the field of nanotechnology was established by the State Corporation Rusnano in 2009. The prize is awarded in one of four areas – nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, nanobiotechnology and nanodiagnostics.
Inventors, scientists and developers (no more than three people in total), who are the authors of scientific and technological developments introduced into mass production, are awarded the badges of the winners of the RUSNANOPRIZE prize. The company that introduced this development into mass production for the first time receives the award symbol of the award.
In 2009, the RUSNANOPRIZE Prize was awarded to Academician Leonid Keldysh and Professor Alfred I. Cho (USA) for the development of "Semiconductor superlattices and molecular beam Epitaxy technology". The award symbol of the award was awarded to the company RIBER (France) for the creation of equipment for molecular beam epitaxy.
In 2010, the RUSNANOPRIZE laureates were Lev Feigin, Chief Researcher at the A.V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Dmitry Svergun, head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany) group. The award was awarded to scientists for creating a new field of application of X–rays - determination of the structure of matter in the field of nanoscale using X-ray small-angle scattering.
The award was presented by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov and CEO of the state Corporation "Rusnano" Anatoly Chubais.
According to Feigin, the award-winning development has found wide application. "The X-ray technique has become the basis of nanodiagnostics. Many practical tasks have been solved thanks to this technique," he said.
Small–angle X-ray scattering is one of the most effective ways to study the structure of matter on an ultra-small scale. It is used for the analysis of nanostructures present in various types of samples – from liquids to solids. The pioneering work of Feigin and Svergun on the study of biological objects, jointly started by them in the early 80s of the last century, laid the foundation for modern methods of nanodiagnostics.
The award symbol was awarded to Hecus X-ray Systems Gmbh (Austria) for a series of pioneering developments of X-ray small-angle equipment, which made it possible to widely apply the small-angle scattering method for nanodiagnostics of a wide class of materials in many technological and research centers.
The laureates of the competition of young scientists and researchers in the field of nanotechnology, held within the framework of the RUSNANOTECH 2010 forum, also received awards.
Young researchers received honorary diplomas and the badge of the prize winner from the hands of the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov.
The winners of the competition received awards in the nominations "nanophotonics", "nanodiagnostics", "nanomaterials", "nanotechnology in medicine", "catalysts", "nanobiotechnology", "nanotechnology for energy", "nanoelectronics".
Academician Mikhail Alfimov, Director of the Center for Photochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted that the competition is being held for the third time and the quality of the works submitted to the competition is growing from year to year. This year the prizes were awarded to young researchers from 63 Russian regions. "Nanotechnology has really taken hold of the masses," Alfimov said at the ceremony.
A number of laureates also received grants from the Foundation for the Promotion of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Field. These grants provide for payments in the amount of 200 thousand rubles per year for two years for research development.
Honorary diplomas of the foundation were presented to the laureates by its head Ivan Bortnik. "You have to write a big book of nanotechnology. So far you have written only the first pages," Alfimov said.
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03.11.2010