At the end of October, following a meeting of the competition commission for the selection of recipients of grants for state support of the centers of the National Technological Initiative on the basis of educational institutions of higher education and scientific organizations, a list of projects that will become recipients of state grants for implementation was named. Among the selected ones is the project "Technologies of mobile energy storage", in the implementation of which scientists of the YURSPU (NPI) are also taking part.

The main applicant for this grant is the Competence Center of the National Technological Initiative (NTI), whose participants are the main executor of the project - the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT, Phystech), as well as YURGPU (NPI), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FITC HF RAS), N.D. Institute of Organic Chemistry. Zelinsky RA (IOH RAS), the Federal Research Center for Problems of Chemical Physics and Medical Chemistry, RAS (FITC PCF and MX RAS), the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry of the Siberian Branch of RAS (IHTTM SB RAS), the Institute of New Carbon Materials and Technologies (INUMIT) and several enterprises of the real sector of the economy.

Specialists of the Technological Faculty of our university (a group led by Professors N.V. Smirnova and M.S. Lipkin) are working on the project "Mobile Energy Storage" as part of a team of scientists from the NTI Competence Center.

The aim of the project is to develop and implement domestic technology for creating electric power storage devices based on electrochemical rechargeable current sources (batteries), including lithium-ion batteries (LIA). Since there is currently no production of lithium-ion batteries on Russian equipment and from Russian raw materials, scientists face a difficult and ambitious task: to develop system solutions that will allow to establish the entire technological cycle: the production of materials for LIA (both active and auxiliary), as well as the production of batteries themselves.

The consortium has a scientific foundation for solving this problem, an impressive group of specialists has gathered, and the laboratory base also allows us to look with optimism at the task set for colleagues.

The grant funds received by the project will allow to activate the work of the NTI. This means that our scientists have a lot of interesting and very important work to do as part of a multidisciplinary group.