Chemistry of Applied Materials

Career options

Specialists with a deep understanding of chemistry and materials will be in high demand in research, innovation, and development sectors. Graduates’ backgrounds in chemistry and material science will undoubtedly be demanded at leading scientific institutions and industries both in Russia and abroad. They can work in various companies and holdings in the following fields: medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, food, chemical, physiological, biotechnological, engineering, etc. 

Program description 

This interdisciplinary program focuses on the modern aspects of nanotechnology for chemistry and material science. Special emphasis is placed on the engineering of functional nanoarchitectures for catalysis, biomedical applications, and photonics.

Specializations

• Applied Materials

• Nanopharmaceutics

• Industrial Brokerage in the Field of Biotechnology and Nanoengineering

The program

• covers fundamentals of multiscale phenomena underlying engineering of nanodevices from molecular inorganic chemistry to sol-gel processes and interface phenomena.

• focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to nanomaterial engineering for sustainability. The program involves a wide range of courses delivered by top-tier scientists affiliated with the research center on such subjects as green chemistry; catalysis science and technology; inorganic chemistry & material science; sol-gel chemistry; computational modeling in material sciences, etc.

• offers an individual approach to exploring students’ potential and talents.

• provides access to modern research facilities such as equipment for advanced materials synthesis, physical-chemical characterization, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, as well as infrastructure for computational chemistry.

• creates an opportunity for students to carry out research on topics related to current social problems in ambitious research teams affiliated with the research center.

The program is delivered under the aegis of SCAMT Lab (Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies), the ITMO department specializing in hybrid materials creation by soft solution chemical methods in nanomaterial science and development of biomedical, optical materials, and advanced industrial materials. 

Students can perform research projects in one of the research groups or work on their own startups at an industrial laboratory. 

Research groups:

• Nanopharmacy

• Inkjet Printing of Functional Materials

• Ceramic and Natural Nanomaterials

• Chemistry Neuroeducation

• 3D Printing of Functional Nanomaterials

The program combines state-of-the-art computational and practical aspects of material sciences and nanotechnology and effectively bridges material sciences and information technologies, strategic research areas pursued at ITMO University.