Alexander Burchakov, a research fellow at the SCTMS, has won the 2024 Russian Science Foundation competition "Conducting Fundamental Scientific Research and Exploratory Scientific Research by Small Individual Research Groups". The research will be carried out over two years with funding of 1.5 million rubles per year.Application number and title is 25-23-00123, "Development of multiphase composite materials based on three-periodic surfaces, theoretical and experimental study of their mechanical properties". The goal of the project is to generate new three-periodic surfaces with different spatial groups and topologies. For generation, an original method for constructing such surfaces, previously developed by the research group, will be used, based on constructing periodic grids for known crystalline structures, forming space tilings based on these grids, and generating all possible facet representations of three-periodic surfaces from the resulting tilings.
The scientific group includes employees of the SCTMS and the employees of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Samara Polytechnic University Alexander Krutov, Mikhail Frolov, Mikhail Smolkov and the project manager Alexander Burchakov.
“In modern production technologies, an intensive search for new materials with the necessary mechanical and physical properties continues,” Alexander said about his work. “We are developing a project in the field of modeling new porous structures based on three-periodic surfaces with systems of non-intersecting pores to create composite materials based on interpenetrating phases of a new generation. They are used in various engineering solutions, vibration and sound absorption systems, thermal insulation systems and heat flow management. Our project is interdisciplinary, it combines, for example, topological and geometric methods, crystal chemistry methods, computer modeling methods, additive technologies.”