OREANDA-NEWS. October 12, 2009. The awarding ceremony was attended by Sergey Ivanov, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government, Zhores Alferov, Academician, Nobel winner, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Andrey Fursenko, Minister of Science and Education, and Anatoly Chubais, CEO of RUSNANO.

The winners were selected among Russian and foreign participants who presented 518 papers on 17 nanotechnology and nanoindustry topics. These included 505 reports by Russian contestants from 58 Russian cities and towns and 13 reports by foreign participants from 9 countries of the world (Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Israel, Iran, Spain, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Ukraine).

The studies presented addressed such topics as nanodiagnostics, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, photovoltaics, nanoelectromechanical systems, nanobiotechnology, nanomaterials, self-assembly and self-organization processes in nanomaterials construction, chemical technology of nanomaterials, biological molecular machines, nanotechnology in power engineering and medicine, mathematic simulation in nanotechnology, etc.

The authors of the best papers were awarded honorary diplomas of the Forum and cash prizes. The complete list of the winners of the International Competition for Young Researchers can be found on the Forum’s web site.