A group of KNRTU physicochemists won the 2020 competition for grants from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) as part of the Presidential program for research projects conducted by leading scientists, including young scientists. Over the course of three years the research team will receive 5 million ₽ annually to carry out fundamental research in the field of lanthanide compounds.

The research team at the Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry (six of its seven participants are under 39 years old) is headed by Alexander Krupin, Assistant Professor Department, junior research associate, Candidate of Chemical Sciences. The topic of the research project is "Luminescent fingerprints based on composites of anisometric coordination compounds of lanthanides (III) and hybrid quantum dots as unique identification materials for documents, products and technologies".

Alexander Krupin said, “Our developments concern a very popular topic related to the use of unique properties of lanthanide compounds and quantum dots in the field of information security, labeling of goods, products and documents. Today this line of research is fast-evolving around the world. We constantly monitor the achievements of our colleagues and have our works published in journals of the first quartile, and we believe that our approaches and results may even be ahead of some international developments”.

Out of all the applications submitted this year to the action supporting scientific groups run by scientists under 39 years old, only four applications submitted by researchers from Kazan universities were supported by the RSF: all of them are devoted to various aspects of chemical sciences. The project of Alexander’s research team is the only application from KNRTU that has made its way to the list of winners.