Laboratory of Microstructured Polymer Systems

November 14, 2017

In October, the 5th IUPAC-FAPS 2017 Polymer Congress took place on the island of Jeju in Korea on the theme "Smart Polymers for Emerging Technologies: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Federation of Asian Polymer Societies (FAPS)". Detailed information ...

November 05, 2017

In July, the results of the competition for receiving grants from the Russian Science Foundation were announced for the event "Conducting research by scientific groups under the leadership of young scientists".

One of the contest's winners was Elena Kozhunova, a research fellow at our laboratory.

The project is devoted to thermo- and pH-sensitive microgels on the basis of interpenetrating meshes for the creation of coatings and membranes for biomedical applications. The project is designed for 3 years. Irina Nasimova, Alexander Chertovich, Vladimir Rudyak, Pavel Kos and Mikhail Frolov take part in the work.

September 07, 2017

August 25 - September 4 2017 at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkolTech) a summer school on theoretical physics, bioinformatics and molecular biology (http://www.skoltech.ru/en/2017/07/skoltech-summer-school/) was held. The school was attended by students of the laboratory Pavel Kos and Artem Petrov. Also A.Chertovich read a couple of lectures on computer modeling of chromatin organization.

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September 06, 2017

July 19, 2017 Elena Kozhunova had given a talk "Synthesis amphiphilic copolymers of acrylic acid by the methods of RAFT-polymerization "on International Conference on Nanomaterials ANM-2017 (anm2017.com) in Portugal (Aveiro).

July 30, 2017

Students of our laboratory Frolov Mikhail and Ruslan Shupanov took part in the summer school CCP5 2017, which was held in England at the University of Lancaster July 9 - July 18, 2017.

July 27, 2017

July 12, 2017 Alexander Chertovich presented an oral report "CRUMPLED GLOBULE FORMATION AND CHROMATINE STRUCTURE" at the 46th World Chemistry Congress IUPAC2017 (iupac2017.org) in Brazil (Sao Paulo).

July 26, 2017

Three new articles were published in June:

1. A.V.Sergeev, A.V. Chertovich, D.M. Itkis, A. Sen, A. Gross, A.R. Khokhlov, "Electrode/Electrolyte Interface in the Li–O2 Battery: Insight from Molecular Dynamics Study", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017, 121 (27), pp 14463–14469 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b03861) ...

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April 18, 2017

In early April, a graduate student of our laboratory, Pavel Kos, took part in a conference devoted to multiscale modeling and experimental study of the genome. The event took place in the mountains of France, in the historic place of École de physique des Houches.

He was the only graduate student who delivered an oral report. The conference was attended by such scientists as Erez Lieberman Aiden, Tim J. Stevens, Ralf Everaers, Angelo Rosa, Daniel Jost, Yitzhak Rabin and others.

March 28, 2017

Finally, our article on the copolymerization of substrates in Langmuir was published (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00406). In this paper, the results of laboratory experiments and computer modeling for the process of copolymerization in nanopores were compared for the first time, the full text is available at http://istina.msu.ru/media/publications/article/820/db2/51428537/acs.langmuir.7b00406 -3.pdf.

March 15, 2017

This week in Science came out a very interesting publication about the structure of chromatin in single mammalian cells, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature21429.html In general, the work confirms the general results on the structure of chromatin , previously made on the basis of averaged data on a large population of cells. 

February 21, 2017

In cooperation with Ph.D. E.N. Govorun published a fresh article, which was announced on the site of the Moscow University http://www.msu.ru/science/news/fiziki-mgu-izuchili-samoorganizatsiyu-molekul-polimerov.html.

The paper deals with a special class of macromolecules consisting of short and long blocks randomly distributed along the polymer chain (sections from the same monomer units). This consideration, we hope, will improve the scientific understanding of structuring in complex systems such as random multiblock copolymers.