BelSU scientists contribute to exploration of ways to obtain reactive alumina

The International Scientific and Technical Conference on Designs and Technologies for Obtaining Products from Non-Metallic Materials conference is held once every three years and as become a platform for presenting the results of innovative research and development in non-metallic materials for various functional purposes. The event was organized by the Obninsk Scientific and Production Enterprise Technology named after A. Romashin. The work was carried out in four sections: Ceramics with special properties, Polymer composite materials, Technologies and designs, Glass and optical coatings, and Management of scientific activities and information technology.

As BelSU representatives, the Conference featured Victoria Lisnyak, assistant of the Department of General Chemistry of the Institute of Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biology, and Natalia Morozova, postgraduate student of the same department and chief technologist at NK Production and Commercial Company, CJSC.

The young scientists reported on the results of the research into the SMALOX-M domestic reactive alumina as a promising raw material for the production of dense corundum ceramics. The works within the research were carried out at the University in cooperation with its industrial partner NK Production and Commercial Company, CJSC (Stary Oskol, Russia).

‘We have demonstrated the fundamental possibility of using SMALOX-M, domestically developed fine powders of reactive alumina, for the production of high-density corundum ceramics for special purposes in the manufacturing process at ALOX, LLC,’ told Victoria Lisnyak.

According to her, it was Associate professor of the BelSU Department of General Chemistry Mikhail Trubitsyn, PhD in Engineering, who led the creative group, engaged into the research presented.

More than 650 delegates from Russia and other countries – Azerbaijan, Belarus, Italy and Syria – participated in the conference, spoke at panel discussions and round tables devoted to various areas of application of non-metallic materials in high-tech production.

The importance of the event for developing domestic high-tech technologies was discussed by speakers at the plenary session: Sergey Kuznetsov, Designer General at Salut, the V.M. Myasishchev Design Bureau; Head of the Open Innovation Centre and Deputy Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Rostec State Corporation Alexander Kashirin; and Professor Mikhail Rusin, Director of the RPO Scientific and Production Complex and Designer General at the Technology Obninsk Science and Production Enterprise named after A. Romashin.