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Two articles of employees of the new laboratory, Promising Materials in Biomedicine, opened within SUSU Higher Medical and Biological School, were published at the same time in world-renowned scientific journals. The articles are devoted to the study of the optic properties of nanowires covered in graphene, a revolutionary material of the 21st century. This variation of carbon compound is the thinnest, most durable, and can control static electricity. According to scientists’ forecasts, it will be able to replace silicon in electronics, photonics, and spintronics. In the future, graphene is planned for active use in the aerospace and automobile industries, and also in the manufacturing of renewable sources of energy.
The material of the group of scientists of the Promising Materials in Biomedicine laboratory of the SUSU HMBS, Dmitriy Kuzmin and Igor Bychkov, dedicated to the study of the properties of plasmon polaritons in nanowires covered in graphene was published in the journal Scientific Reports in May 2016. In June 2016, an article of this same employee groups of authors of the new center, Biomedical Technology, was published in the journal Nano Letters on the giant Faraday effect in gyrotropic graphene-based nanowires.
Scientific Reports is an online, open-access scientific journal. It is part of the publishing group Nature, which covers all areas of the natural sciences. Scientific articles published in Nature are reviewed and indexed in all of the leading systems. The journal Nano Letters is published by the American Chemical Society. It publishes the results of basic research in all areas of the theory and practice of nanoscience and nanotechnology as well as experimental and theoretical results of scientific developments in the study of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the nanometer range.
According to the head of the Promising Materials in Biomedicine laboratory, doctor of physics and mathematics, Sergey Taskaev, publication on such a level is a rarity for both SUSU and for different leading Russian universities as a whole.
“The publication of scientists in Nano Letters and Scientific Reports is of great value, as the citation and impact-factor of journals is included in the University’s scientometric figures. The impact-factor of the journal Nano Letters is almost equal to 14. This is a very high figure. Publications in scientific publications of such a high level is a point of special pride, for example, in laboratories in the USA,” stresses Sergey Valerievich, “Throughout the course of 2016, employees of the laboratory plan to publish approximately 30 articles in leading international scientific publications indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. For comparison, a university of SUSU’s size traditionally publishes around 100 articles a year in all areas of science and technology indexed in the Web of Science system.”
Publications in such leading international scientific publications as Nano Letters and Scientific Repors is one more important step on the path towards recognition of SUSU on the international level. Publications will enable the promote the indexation of research by SUSU scientists in international databases Scopus and Web of Science and an increase in SUSU’s position in QS and THE, ratings of the best universities in the world, in achievements in education and science.