The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of the competition among small individual research groups. Two ISC RAS projects are among the winners.
The first project Development of the scientific foundation for providing polypropylene fibrous materials with extended antimicrobial properties through application of cyclodextrins as microcontainers (head of the group is Doctor of Engineering Sciences Natalyia Prorokova) is aimed at creating new technologies of obtaining textile materials with useful properties. It assumes preparation and study of the functional properties of polypropylene fibrous materials modified by cyclodextrins. Grafting these macrocycles to the surface layer will facilitate the inclusion of antimicrobial preparations in the fabric composition, which will allow the material to acquire antimicrobial properties and retain them for a long time.
The second project Development of a new class of chromo-fluorogenic probes of zinc and cadmium ions from dipyrromethene chelating ligands (head of the group is Candidate of Chemical Sciences Natalia Bumagina) is aimed at developing new selective dipyrromethene probes for colorimetric and fluorescent identification of Zn2+ and Cd2+ ions in organic and aqueous organic media. To identify the key factors of molecular design influence on selectivity and sensitivity of analyte detection, it is proposed to carry out comprehensive theoretical and experimental studies of the thermodynamics and spectral response of complex formation of chromophore ligands with metal cations in a variety of media. A series of the most promising candidates will be studied in order to test several techniques of qualitative and quantitative analysis of cations in solutions, including express analysis, spectrofluorimetric and extractive spectrophotometric approaches. The research results will be used as the foundation for possible practical applications of dipyrromethene probes in the analysis of Zn2+ and Cd2+ cations in solutions.
Congratulations to the researchers and good luck with the realization of the projects!!!
