HOMESCIENCE

SCIENCE

Four institutes in the company contour. Two joint sites with IPCE RAS — red-mud hydrometallurgy and photoelectric materials. Thin-film papers with DOI. The 2021 Mendeleev Communications paper is on Math-Net.

4 INSTITUTES · 2 SITES · 12 PAPERS
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SCIENCE PARTNERS

Each institute owns a segment of the chain — from feedstock composition to the device and the test.

IPCE RAS

ELECTROCHEMISTRY · THIN FILMS · SENSORS

The A.N. Frumkin Institute. Continuity since 1929, the Rehbinder and Deryagin schools. Chain “synthesis — film — device — characterization”. The Tameev group is the photoelectric core. Exclusive industrial partnership with Era Group on perovskites.

IGI RAS

COMPOSITION · GASIFICATION

Institute of Fossil Fuels. Chemical and mineralogical mapping of ash-slag by layer. Gasification of unburnt carbon — syngas as the site energy loop. Agreement — Q4 2025.

IPKON RAS

BENEFICIATION · REE

Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources. Gravity, flotation, chemical concentration of rare earths from technogenic feedstock. Agreement — Q4 2025.

NIIZHB (Gvozdev)

CONCRETE TESTING

Research Institute of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete. Head tests of high-strength expanded clay FORTIS and concretes based on it. Agreement — Q3 2026.

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JOINT SITES WITH IPCE RAS

Era Group is the industrial partner of IPCE RAS and the CRIRS National Center. Two joint sites are being created inside the institute: the premises are provided by the institute, the funding is joint — under Agreement No. 17/11/25-IP and the CRIRS National Center Program through 2030.

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RED-MUD HYDROMETALLURGY AND ALKALINE-PULP ELECTROCHEMISTRY

REE · ALKALINE PULPS · SENSORS

Selective recovery of Sc, Ga, Y, Zr and lanthanides from red mud of the aluminium industry. Electrochemistry and instrumental control of alkaline and carbonate pulps.

Selective extraction and sorption: phosphoryl podands, phosphine oxides, amides, complexones, macrocyclic polyethers
Synthesis of sorption and membrane materials
Electrolysis and electrodialysis of alkaline pulps
Cascade counter-current schemes with centrifugal extractors
Sensors and analytical control of alkaline pulp and alumina-plant effluents
Physicochemical modelling with AI
Engineering support of international projects

Consortium: IPCE RAS · INEOS RAS · Kola Science Centre RAS

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PHOTOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND THIN-FILM DEVICES

PEROVSKITES · TANDEMS · INTERFACES

Hybrid and perovskite materials, including wide-bandgap compositions for tandem architectures. Thin films and laboratory devices. Scientific lead — Dr. A. R. Tameev, Laboratory of Electronic and Photonic Processes in Polymer Materials, IPCE RAS.

Structural, optical and electrochemical characteristics of materials
Degradation kinetics and stability
Engineering of charge-transport layers and interfaces using rare-metal feedstock
Thin-film formation and laboratory devices
AI-assisted modelling

Era Group is the Russian signatory of the agreements with foreign universities and the photoelectric industry

03 ·PUBLICATIONS OF THE PROGRAM
2026JETP Letters 123, 393 — Cl doping of CsPbBr₃10.1134/S0021364025610188
2026PCCP 28, 4992 — halide perovskite scintillators10.1039/D5CP03941J
2025Mendeleev Communications 35, 193 — CsPbBr₃ / Cs₄PbBr₆ nanoparticles10.71267/mencom.7612
2025Nanobiotechnology Reports 20, 118 — direct X-ray detectors10.1134/S2635167625600154
2025Applied Physics Letters 126, 262106 — CsSnI₃ charge transport10.1063/5.0272415
2025Polymers 17, 14 — PEDOT–fullerene NIR composites10.3390/polym17010014
2024Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 60, 813 — PEDOT–fullerenol10.1134/S1023193524700381
2023J. Mater. Chem. C 11, 15261 — PMHS/PDMS encapsulation10.1039/D3TC01370G
2021Nano Energy 82, 105771 — MXene inverted PSC10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.105771
2021Scientific Reports 11, 5005 — optical thickness optimization10.1038/s41598-021-84452-x
2021Mendeleev Communications 31, 454 — electrodeposited PEDOT HTL10.1016/j.mencom.2021.07.005
2019Materials 12, 1406 — copper iodide interlayer10.3390/ma12091406

The list reflects the program's public publications; full texts are available via DOI identifiers.

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SCHOOL AND CONTINUITY

IPCE RAS has institutional continuity dating to 1929. The Rehbinder and Deryagin schools laid the foundations of colloid chemistry and surface physics — the disciplines underlying today's work on thin films and interfaces of perovskite devices.

1929
THE REHBINDER AND DERYAGIN SCHOOLS
CHAIN: SYNTHESIS — FILM — DEVICE — CHARACTERIZATION
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