EXPECTED IMPACT OF RESULTS

Scientific and Technology Aspects.

Firstly, the cooperative interactions between industries in the Ukraine and the Russian Federation to achieve the following purposes:

1. Develop new products for the Ukrainian and Russian industies that will generate cash flows within each country and with international companies, thus developing the growth of the adsorbent/catalyst industries in the Ukraine and Russia.
2. Promote collaboration between scientific and private industries that will benefit both groups.
3. Train students in the application of science to solve problems.
4. Private industries scale-up process and «commercialize» the ideas.

Another advantage of the project is the training of Ukrainian and of Russian students in Italy, U.K. and USA. These students will remain at the training sites for 3 month-periods. At these remote sites the students will become familiar with the synthesis of precursor compounds and adsorbents, synthesis of the superadsorbents and characterization of the solids by NMR, FTIR/RAMAN, and XPS.

Ecological and Environment Aspects.

The project has also immediate benefit to Ukraine, namely: to solve problems relevant to remediation of process waters nuclear power plants in the Ukraine, that after Chernobyl failure is a painful problem for Ukraine.

Thus, the given project is complex: 1) on its purposes it is both industrial, and ecological project as it seeks solutions to problems concerning both domains; 2) on the composition of the work team it combines the scientists and workers from industry and academia from several different countries; 3) from the point of view of performance the project combines scientific development of principles of synthesis of new sorbents, development of new technology and commercial embodying of termination products.