Professor Vladislav Blatov was officially certified by the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, Xi'an, China) to lead the university's graduate students. The leadership will be carried out jointly with Professor Junjie Wang.Recently, a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the National Natural Science Foundation of China has been won – an international team under the guidance of Prof. Vladislav Blatov and Prof. Junjie Wang will predict new inorganic electrides. The graduate students of the Northwestern Polytechnical University are supposed to participate in this project, as well as in joint scientific researches on metal-organic frameworks and other projects carried out at SCTMS.
After the opening of the borders, it is planned to organise mutual visits for joint researches at Samara State Technical University and NWPU.