At the end of December the winners and runners-up of the annual governor’s contest of youth innovation projects «IQ of the Year Award» were announced. The best youth scientific projects were chosen in five nominations. Among them there are three representatives of Kuban State University.
It is necessary to notice that the prize fund of the competition was one million rubles, and awards for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place were 100, 60 and 40 thousand rubles accordingly.
In the category «The Best Innovative Project in the Field of Environmental Protection, Energy Conservation and Alternative Energy Sources» the first place was taken by George Andreev, a student of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering of Kuban State University. In the course of his project, the student developed a device designed for wireless charging of electronic gadgets — smartphones, watches, headphones. In addition to home use, the device can also be used in medicine to charge implants, pacemakers and heart pumps. There are currently no wireless charging systems for medicine in Russia, and infection through cables is a deadly complication.
According to Georgy, due to the current situation, there is a need to develop wireless chargers capable of powering medical systems through the skin. It is the medical direction that is the focus of the project. This device may become the first domestic wireless charger for any electronic gadgets.
The second place in the same nomination was taken by Denis Bondarev, a teacher of the institute of secondary professional education of KubSU. His project concerns development of a new bipolar membrane designed for production of acids and alkalis. Previously, this project was included in Denis’s application for the grant competition «SMART». In the future, at the beginning of the new year, the young scientist will conduct tests of the membrane in a laboratory electrodialyzer on model solutions of electrolytes.
In the nomination «The best innovative project in the sphere of health care, biomedicine, pharmaceutics» the 3rd place was taken by Alexey Lazukin, a student of the Biology Department of Kuban State University. In his home laboratory he has developed and assembled a biological module for the isolation of DNA, RNA, and conducting automatic chemical protocols.
Innovation of Alexey’s project is that his device is 10 times more accurate than similar laboratory instruments. The speed of the device is twice as fast as analogues, and its size is twice as small. There is also the possibility of fully autonomous operation of the device from built-in batteries. At the same time, the price of the device is ten times lower than analogues used today. In the future, the author plans to refine the prototype to a pre-production model, connect the machine vision and give the sponsors the technology for production. At the same time, Alexei Lazukin already has several projects, which by their characteristics can significantly surpass the global analogues in biological instrumentation. One of these developments was presented at the grant competition «SMART», and another was presented at the recent Kuban State University acceleration program «NO! TO IMPORT».