The Institute of Chemistry of New Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will implement a number of projects at the amount of $2.8 million for research centers of Saudi Arabia, Yuri Mikhailovsky, academic secretary of the institute, The National Legal Portal of the Republic of Belarus reported on Thursday. The projects will be carried out for the Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Science and Technology Center in Al-Khobar, which is affiliated to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. The Belarusian scientists will develop new functional lubricating materials, protective coatings, antiseptics and biosensors. The Belarusian scientists will propose innovations in the field of microelectronics, agriculture and automobile construction. Some of the projects will be implemented this year. In the near future, the Belarusian scientists are expected to present the technology to produce plastic cards. The Belarusian and the Saudi Arabian sides are considering the possibility to produce such cards jointly. The Belarusian institute has developed the up-to-date composite polymeric material to produce plastic cards. This material is resistant to moment load as its foreign analogs but it is much cheaper. The Belarusian researchers have proposed their Saudi Arabian counterparts to use this material in plastics production. According to Yuri Mikhailovsky, Vietnamese research centers are among big international partners of the Institute of Chemistry of New Materials. The sides cooperate in the field of alternative energy. Specialists of both the countries intend to study the economically profitable methods to produce biofuel and various valuable chemicals from renewable vegetal resources. The scientists of Belarus and Vietnam will study the possibilities to expand the use of biofuel in the Belarusian and Vietnamese industry. Researchers of the Institute of Chemistry of New Materials study the physical chemistry of thin-film organic materials, develop the new composite materials with tailor-made properties and technologies for their production.
