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Director of the Ural Center for Shared Use “Modern Nanotechnologies” UrFU Vladimir Yakovlevich Shur became professor of the year in the natural sciences.
The awarding of the national prize "Professor of the Year" in the nomination "Natural Sciences" was held on the eve at the St. Petersburg University. The prize was first established by the Russian Professors' Assembly, it is expected that the ceremony will be annual.

On Tuesday, March 20 at 15:00, a seminar of our guest Professor Soulimane Tewfik from the University of Limerick (Ireland) was held at the UCSU "Modern Nanotechnologies" on the topic: "Structure and function of thermophilic respiratory complexes: What can we learn from protein crystals". The seminar was intended for the general public and did not require a deeply specialized knowledge in this field.

On March 1-5, 2018, the researchers of USCU MN Dr. Semen Vasilev, Daria Vasileva, and Dr. Pavel Zelenovsky have studied peptide nanotubes on the synchrotron ESRF (Grenoble, France). X-ray diffraction measurements were carried out on nanotubes filled with water molecules in varying degrees. The obtained results made it possible to clarify the available ideas about the kinetics of water in nanotubes and to propose a new model of water ordering in nanochannels.

Researchers of the UCSU MN Dr. Semen Vasilev and Darya Vasileva went to the University of Limerick (Ireland) for an internship with the support of the International Mobility Program Erasmus +, funded by the EU, from January 18 to February 8, 2018.

Semen studied the piezoelectric and nonlinear optical properties of peptide microtubules grown using various solvents, and also carried out spectroscopic studies (IR spectroscopy) to detect free and bound water inside the tubes.