| Item # |
MAJOR APPLICATION AREAS |
MATERIALS MODIFIED WITH FULLERENES |
| 1. |
Development of new structural materials possessing unique properties for use in construction of engineering facilities and manufacture of personal protective equipment |
- Special-purpose woven materials (bands, canvases, sailcloth, ropes, ultrastrong threads) based on polymer molecules modified with fullerenes;
- Radiation-resistant materials based on graphite modified with fullerenes;
- Polymer-impregnated concrete of high strength;
- Light fibrous graphites modified with fullerenes or nanostructures for use as reinforced sealing materials;
- Ultrastrong (harder than diamond) tips for special machining tools.
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| 2. |
Improvement of operational characteristics of vehicles and other special mechanisms. |
- Additives to lubricants and greases drastically raising the resistance to wear of friction couples in machines and mechanisms;
- Antigalling compound for units operating in heavy-duty regimes;
- Composite material for brake shoes of high-speed vehicles and for airplanes with high rate of heat dissipation and resistance to wear;
- Materials resistant to wear under dry friction;
- Modified wood- and rubber-based composite materials for stern-shaft and similar bearings;
- Lubricating and cooling technological liquids for increasing the operational life of machining tools.
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| 3. |
Development of new composite materials for use in electrical engineering. |
- Composite materials for sliding high-current electrical contacts with long service life;
- Thermally modified materials for electrodes in chemical current sources;
- Components of superconducting structures based on fullerene intercalators.
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| 4. |
Development of new composite materials for use in optical and radio-electronic countereffort. |
- Materials for screens protecting from laser radiation;
- Materials for stealth technologies of various purpose;
- Materials for devices correlating laser images in systems of surveillance and processing information from satellites (high-resolution dynamic holograms).
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| 5. |
Development of materials and microelectronic units for special purposes. |
- Materials for diffraction demultiplexers in fiber-optic networks;
- High-perfection diamond-like films;
- Materials for advanced microsensors;
- Thin-film protective coats of high rresistance;
- Inorganic resists of submicron definition;
- Electro-optical modulators, including multi-channel ones and modulators based on “light-to-light” principle.
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| 6. |
Development of new technologies for medicine. |
- Materials for effective dialysis of highly toxic substances under field conditions;
- Highly effective sorbents for protective medical systems in hospitals.
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