Cooperation agreement signed with Zhengzhou University
The signatories were vice-rector Timirkhan Alishev and vice-president Qu Lingbo.
“Today, Chinese scientific and educational organizations are among the most interesting academic partners for us. Currently, more than 45 cooperation agreements have been signed with them in various fields of natural sciences, engineering and humanitarian knowledge. Network programs are being implemented, as well as a number of research projects in petroleum science and biomedicine. Zhengzhou University is one of the oldest in China and a participant of major academic leadership programs,” Timirkhan Alishev noted.
The document covers cooperation in green chemistry, nanomaterial chemistry, biovisualization, sensor technology, colloidal and synthetic chemistry. In particular, research will be conducted in such areas as the use of modern quantum-chemical methods for interpreting and predicting infrared, Raman and ultraviolet molecular spectra, supramolecular chemistry and drug delivery systems, synthesis of nanodispersed systems, synthesis of organic and organoelement compounds (including photochemical, electrochemical and catalytic approaches), etc.
The foundation for future partnership in these areas was laid back in 2019, when scientists from Zhengzhou University, as part of a delegation from Henan Province, visited Kazan as part of the 45th WorldSkills competition.
“Due to the fact that there are now many bilateral programs, including those from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia and the Russian Science Foundation, which promote cooperation between Russia and China, we thought of a possibility of closer cooperation,” shared Rustem Zairov, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry. “After signing this agreement, we plan to launch work on several relevant scientific areas that are at the forefront of modern chemistry. The first area is physical chemistry of dispersed particles and questions of the development of luminescent nanomaterials based on carbon quantum dots and lanthanide nanoparticles. This area is very important from the point of view of developing modern methods for diagnosing diseases at early stages, personalized medicine, as well as solving bioanalytical problems, since with the help of such luminescent nanoparticles or molecules, high-quality optical visualization can be achieved at the cellular and subcellular levels. They are an effective tool for studying the state of cellular organelles. Thus, with their help it becomes possible to track the intracellular temperature of mitochondria, register their dysfunction and diagnose various diseases. Sensor technology is another area of mutual interest. It is a field of chemical science that studies the possibility of detecting a particular molecule, a biological marker of a disease or a certain toxic substance based on a change in the value of a physical parameter that acts as an analytical signal. In the case where we are talking about changing the intensity of luminescence, we are dealing with luminescent sensors. They allow us to determine the presence of a particular analyte in the sample under study with high accuracy and a low detection limit. This is very important in the context of developing our cooperation, since the College of Chemistry of Zhengzhou University is a leader in analytical chemistry. This is probably the top 10 in analytical chemistry in the world.”
In November 2024, Zairov visited Zhengzhou to give two lectures on the functional properties of nanomaterials based on rare earth elements and rare metals.
KFU chemists will work with scientists from the College of Chemistry of Zhengzhou University and the Joint International Research Laboratory of Green Technologies of Henan Province in Construction of Functional Molecules and Their Application in Bioanalysis.