From precious opal to nanofilms

At the end of 2006, the scientific meeting “Science and Nanotechnologies” was held in Akademgorodok (Novosibirsk). At this session, a lot of world-level works performed by scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences were presented. These achievements are encouraging, especially if we take into account modest funding of our researchers. The “technology of success” of this meeting was revealed to us by its participants: Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy D. V. Kalinin, Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy V. V. Serdobintseva (Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS), and Doctor of Physics and Mathematics A. I. Plekhanov (Institute of Automatics and Electrometry SB RAS). Their talk was devoted to new nanomaterials based on artificial opals whose quality and potential applications are much better than those of the existing materials.

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