Research Activity

The Laboratory of the Synthesis of Organoelement Polymers currently working under the supervision of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prof. A.M.Muzafarov, Doctor of Chemistry, was officially founded in 1991, although the actual start to the its history had been given significantly earlier.

It was in the late 1970-s when time, location, and desire to do science in the Laboratory of Organosilicon Compounds at the Institute of Organoelement Compounds, a foundation of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, consolidated young researchers – mainly graduates of the Chair headed by Academician K.A.Andrianov at the Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology. Back then, the Laboratory, the very place where the first Ph.D. defenses took place, was supervised by Academician K.A.Andrianov (and later Prof. A.A.Zhdanov). This scientific school brought extremely rich harvest, and in 1989 these scientists, experienced, but still occupying junior research positions, began their independent life as the Group of the Synthesis of Highly Functional Volume-Growing Systems at the Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials then headed by Academician N.S.Enikolopov.

In 1991 this group underwent transformation into the currently existing Laboratory. Since that moment, it has significantly grown up by the number of workers, who inherited not only the enthusiasm to continue as a consolidated community, but also the abilities to succeed despite uneasy conditions. Somewhat later the group was joined by graduates of the Chemistry and Physics Departments at Lomonosov Moscow State University and a number of young researchers – alumni of the Graduate School at the Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials, a foundation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.