Belarusian, Russian scientists to research plasma applications

Belarusian and Russian scientists plan to implement a joint project to research plasma applications for various goals, BelTA learned from Sergei Kilin, Chief Academic Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, as he commented on Vladimir Fortov’s election as the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The newly elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences has expressed his interest in the project. The academician is renowned for his researches in physics of powerful impact waves in dense plasma and in physics of extreme states of matter. Experiments to study quasi-crystalline structures in plasma have been carried out under his supervision.

The plasma applications research project is supposed to be carried out within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. It will be aimed at using plasma for various technological processes. Undoubtedly, the project will be supported by the Belarusian side, remarked Sergei Kilin.

Vladimir Fortov has already presented survey papers at a plasma-dedicated conference in Belarus. Apart from that, there are joint projects of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Extreme States Thermal Physics Institute.

The official said he was confident that cooperation of the Belarusian and Russian academies will become even more effective thanks to the election of the new president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “We believe that our relations will develop in an even more productive manner,” he said. Moreover, a common scientific space of Belarus and Russia is being formed now.