Scientific Research Institute for New Chemical Technologies and Materials

The SRI NCTM was organized on April 13, 1992, by decision №4 of the Cabinet of Ministers. In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated September 6, 2002 No. 984 “Issues of the Republican State Enterprise “Al-Farabi Kazakh National University” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan” was reorganized into a subsidiary state enterprise “Scientific Research Institute for New Chemical Technologies and Materials” of the Republican State Enterprise “Al-Farabi Kazakh National University” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main activity of the Institute is the development of theoretical and practical foundations for new environmentally friendly chemical technologies and materials in Kazakhstan.

The director of the institute from foundation to 2009 was the academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the Order of "Kurmet" Zhubanov Kair Akhmetovich. Since 2010, Sergey Nikolaevich Kalugin, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, has been appointed acting director of SSE SRI NCTM.

The high scientific potential of the institute made it possible to form, substantiate and win a tender for the implementation of three Republican targeted scientific and technical programs, three programs of fundamental research in which SRI NCTM was recognized as the parent organization by a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In the light of integration with university science at SRI NCTM, bachelors and masters of the Faculty of Chemistry of Al-Farabi KazNU carried out and successfully defended term papers and theses based on research materials carried out within the framework of the programs.

DESIGNED PROJECTS:

1. Promising technologies for coal preparation, as well as neutralization and utilization of greenhouse gases, by-products of high-temperature coal processing.
2. Development of the basic principles for the creation and operation of a nanocomputer based on polyelectrolyte hydrogels.
3. Development and study of the technology of plasma gasification of coal to obtain synthesis gas of a given composition for the purpose of its subsequent conversion into methanol
4. Development of multi-purpose nanostructured systems based on synthetic and natural polymers
5. Creation of modular mini-productions based on coal and coal oil
6. Creation of radiation technology for the production of hydrogel dressings for biomedical purposes
7. Creation of an experimental science-intensive coal, gas, petrochemical production with the use of radiation technologies for the purpose of development in the technopark "Park of Nuclear Technologies" in the city of Kurchatov
8. Development of technology for the processing of wood raw materials by catalytic liquefaction
9. Development and research of plasma technology for the complex processing of uranium-containing solid fuels on the example of the Nizhneiliysky brown coal
10.  Organization of pilot production of the drug "Novovalidol"
11.  Water supply. Toxic compounds of industrial wastewater, extraction and disposal technology
12.  Development of coal hydrogenation technology in the presence of radiation-modified catalysts.
13. Organization of the construction of a mini-factory for the regeneration of oils
14.  Development of methods for obtaining brilliant green and its solutions
15. Syntheses based on carbon monoxide, hydrogen and products of catalytic conversion of coal, peat, oil shale and other non-traditional sources of raw materials
16. Scientific foundations for the creation and functioning of pH-, thermally and electrically activated polymeric hydrogels.
17. Development of scientific foundations for the creation of new polyfunctional stimulus-sensitive polymers based on raw materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan for use in medicine and biotechnology, the establishment of fundamental patterns of their functioning
18. Development of technology and pilot plant for plasma cracking of hydrocarbon gases to produce carbon black (soot) and hydrogen.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

SSE SRI NCTM, within the framework of the ongoing work, cooperated with the following countries:

• USA, West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University (Prof. Kinam Park);
• Russia. Moscow city. Institute of Chemical Physics RAS (Prof. Kazansky K.S.).
• Poland. Lodz. Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry (Prof. Roziak J.M.).
• Great Britain, Glasgow (Dr. I. Uchegbu). Strasclyde University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, within the framework of this cooperation in October 2002, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Khutoryansky V.V.
• South Korea, Taejon. (Dr. K.D. Park). Korea Institute of Science and High Technology, Department of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering. Joint work on the creation of macromolecular systems with controlled release of drugs.
• South Korea, Seoul (Doktor S.N. Lee) Technical Innovation Research Center for Biomolecular Design.
• Türkiye. Ankara. Khodja-Teppe University (Prof. O. Güven, Dr. M. Sen),
• Russia, Moscow State University (Professor A.R. Khokhlov),
• Russia, Nesmeyanov Institute of Organometallic Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Sc. L.M. Bronstein),
• Russia, Tver State University (Professor I.M. Sulman),
• Russia, Moscow Center for Water Technology (S. Tkachev),
• Greece, Research and Technology Organization, Heraklion, Crete (Professor S.N. Anastasiadis),
• Canada, Quebec, Department of Chemistry McGill University (Professor A. Eisenberg).

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