Νew Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia

Chemists from the Novosibirsk state University (NSU), and Institute of inorganic chemistry SB RAS got a solid solution of cobalt and iridium — new compound that can serve as a catalyst in various fuel cells, replacing expensive platinum.

The University explained that fuel cells are highly efficient (50%) and unlimited time of usage with a continuous supply of fuel and oxidizer. However, for the proceeding of the reactions at the electrodes required a catalyst. Broad dissemination as a catalyst got platinum, but it has disadvantages, and the cost of the electrodes with platinum exceeds 70% of the entire fuel cell.

Iridium on average two times cheaper than platinum. By adding into solution of base metal of cobalt, the cost of the catalyst is further reduced. In addition, manifests a synergistic effect — the efficiency of the catalyst increases due to merging of separate parts into a single system. Cobalt-iridium alloy works the same as platinum, and we have the same efficiency but with lower cost and longer service life, — explained the employee of laboratory of synthesis and physico-chemical studies of new composite catalysts NSU Eugene Filatov.

As said the scientist, usually a solid solution of metals is obtained by homogenization of chips until a homogeneous mass with high temperatures, with further grinding. The operation is repeated as many times as necessary until the completion of the mutual diffusion of metal atoms. However, this method is time consuming and IIC SB RAS use thermolysis of double complex salts of metals that allows to speed up the process from months to a few hours.

Mindstorm wrote:
Institute for experimentation and development named to "А. Люльки" with a revolutionary achivement, for the first time at world realized and tested successfully a multi-mode jet pulse detonation engine.


It cannot be stressed enough the titanic value (scientifical and economical) that this fundamental breakthrough will bring both to military and civil aerospace products and the very huge impact it could produce on the competive advantage of future Federation's products in the world market.    


http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/novye_razrabotki/opytno_konstruktorskoe_byuro_imeni_a_lyulki_razrabotalo_printsipialno_novyy_mnogorezhimnyy_reaktivny/

Project Canada wrote:

kvs wrote:

Russian researchers have developed a 22% efficient solar panel elements.   The trick is the nano-structured silicon substrate.  
The old process was to vapour deposit silicon onto glass which yields only 9% efficiency.

The video is from December 2015, but one basically never hears about Russian leading edge products.   Just an endless stream
of negativity and smear.   I tried to Google this innovation and all I got was doom and gloom excrement about how the Russian
PV industry is failing.   Well, the institute that developed the 22% efficient panel elements was operating for only 5 years.   The 1990s
destroyed Russian solar panel research.  Not too shabby.  

Russia without a doubt has all the potential to compete with Nato in developing advanced technologies, the area I see that they should be improving is how to market their products more efficiently and make made in russia brands highly competitive  against their Nato and Chinese counterparts in the world market

x_54_u43 wrote:Russian photonic radars and 6th generation fighter research detailed below.

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/96305/#cut

They've already made a experimental sample.