On July 12, the first tests in Russia among developers of hydrogen fuel cell power plants, conducted as part of the Up Great "First Element" technology competition, were completed in Moscow. According to the results of the tests, the best result was shown by the Unmanned Helicopter Systems team and the Polytech team, which brought together specialists from the M.I. Platov YURSPU (NPI) and the InEnergy company. The competition is held by the Russian Venture Company, the Skolkovo Foundation and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives in order to implement the National Technology Initiative.

Employees of YURGPU(NPI) - Anna Ulyankina, assistant of the Department of "Technologies of New and Mobile Energy Sources", Tatiana Molodtsova, PhD student, Nina Vladimirovna Smirnova, Professor of the Department of "Chemical Technologies", co-authored with Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Professor of TU Dresden (H-index 53) and scientists from other universities of Russia and the world, published an article in early December "Photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin in water in the presence of nanoscale zinc oxide, obtained by electrochemical method under the action of alternating pulsed current" ("Photocatalytic decomposition of ciprofloxacin in water with nanomolecular ZnO obtained by electrochemical synthesis on pulsed alternating current") in the Journal of Water Process Engineering, which is included in Q1.

Six Novocherkassk polytechnics have joined a team of enthusiasts who will have to overcome technological barriers and find a breakthrough solution to the most complex technological problems on a global scale - this is the task of the National Technology Initiative competition "First Element. Air." The first - qualifying - stage of the competition has already been successfully completed. Today, experts work at the YURSTU (NPI), who, as part of the qualification stage, review and evaluate the progress of work and equipment.

On the eighth of March, a significant event took place both for the team of chemical scientists of YURSPU (NPI), working under the leadership of V.M. Chernyshev, and for our university as a whole: an article "Pd and Pt Catalyst Poisoning in the Study of Reaction Mechanisms: What Does the Mercury Test" was published in one of the most authoritative chemical journals ACS Catalysis Mean forCatalysis?" ("The use of catalytic poisons in studies of the mechanisms of palladium- and platinum-catalyzed reactions: what is the significance of the mercury test for catalysis?").

Three Novocherkassk polytechnics became winners of the competition for grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists - candidates of sciences.