The article "Optimizing the processing of sugar biomass waste to obtain carbon materials for supercapacitors and catalysts for oxygen reduction", which was prepared by a group of scientists led by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Ananikov, was published in March in the highly rated scientific journal Energy Technology. The publication, in which the scientists of NTNM Research Institute took an active part, adorns the cover of this well-known publication covering applied research in the field of actual modern energy!
Modern sugar production is accompanied by the formation of waste in the form of beet pulp. A joint study by scientists from Moscow, Novocherkassk, Novosibirsk and Rostov-on-Don describes a procedure for converting sugar beet pulp waste into structured carbon materials for the manufacture of electrodes in supercapacitors. The overall solution is to optimize the sugar production technology for human consumption and at the same time obtain high quality carbon material for energy storage.
The team of authors who worked on the article included scientists from the technological faculty of our university: N.V. Smirnova, V. Klushin, D. Chernysheva, V. Andreeva, D. Tokarev, E. Sidash, M. Konstantinov, as well as specialists from the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SFU, Boreskov Novosibirsk Institute of Catalysis. It should be noted that the head of the laboratory of the Institute of Organic Chemistry. N.D. Zelinsky, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Chemistry Valentin Pavlovich Ananikov, in the affiliation of this article, noted two scientific centers at once - the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the South Russian State Pedagogical University (NPI). The world-famous scientist has been cooperating with our university for a long time, and this joint work with polytechnical chemists is another notable result of this successful creative collaboration.