Over 2025 the World-Class Research Center "New Special Purpose Materials" (WCRC) has developed 42 new products for Russia's technological leadership in the field of chemistry and new materials, AI, new energy and public health. The Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation considered the results of the center for the year and decided to extend the subsidy. Tomsk State University is the WCRC coordinator.
The World-Class Research Center "New Special Purpose Materials" (WCRC) was created by the decision of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation in May 2025 within the framework of the national project "New Materials and Chemistry". The center develops technologies and materials in the chemical and biomedical industries. Among other things, it uses the AI methods for its purposes.
The WCRC results were presented by the director of the center, Alexander Vorozhtsov; Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Doctor of TSU Yuri Mikhailov and Researcher of the Laboratory of High-Energy and Special Materials of TSU Sergey Sokolov.
- In 2025 WCRC developed 42 science-intensive products: from aerosols to neutralize hazardous substances in the atmosphere to materials that provide armor protection. The level of technological readiness of our developments varies from test models to finished samples. Our task is to bring products to a high level of readiness, to introduce them into the real sector of the economy, - said Alexander Vorozhtsov.
The WCRC development package also included prototypes of the Virtual Technologist and Molecular Design of Materials hardware and software systems. These programs control both the production process and the process of creating new materials.
The World-Class Research Center works closely with industrial partners - Semiconductor Devices Plant, GC Element, FNTP Altai (GC Roscosmos), Obninsk NPP Technologiya named after A.G. Romashina (GC Rostec), Institute of Plastics named after G.S. Petrov (GC Rostec), Shipbuilding Severnaya Verf shipyard, Giredmet Institute (Rosatom State Corporation), FNTP Research Institute of Applied Chemistry (Rostec State Corporation), Engineering Chemical Technology Center at TSU. In 2025, the WCRC attracted more than 40 million extra-budgetary funds for the development of projects in the field of new special-purpose materials.
Within two years, the WCRC will bring its developments to a high level of readiness, and will also launch the export of technologies. It already holds negotiations with Indian partners. Their leading research organizations plan to develop cooperation with Tomsk - High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL, Pune), Advanced Center for Energy Materials (ACEM, Nashik), Institute for Advanced Technologies (DIAT, Pune).
