YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The Institute of Chemical Physics of the RA National Academy of Sciences is conducting negotiations with the U.S. University of Notre Dame with regard to the conditions for a joint commercialization of the tecnology for receiving powder of silicium carbide processed in the Institute of Chemical Physics of the RA National Academy of Sciences. This information was provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Suren Kharatian, the head of the Kinetics Laboratory of Self-Spreading High-Temperature Synthesis of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the RA National Academy of Sciences, and that of the department of Chemical Physics of the Yerevan State University. In the words of Suren Kharatian, the yearly demand for "alfa modification" having a certain size and structure of a granule of powder, as well as for silicium carbide reaches several hundred tonnes in the international market, however, this demand is not met by producers. "The powder of silicium carbide received by our technology meets the demands existing in the international market. Negotiations with the University of Notre Dame in the direction of a joint commercialization of the technology processed in the institute are currently being conducted due to the above-mentioned fact," Suren Kharatian mentioned. According to him, that technology has been developed on the basis of Self-Spreading High-Temperature Synthesis processes. It was mentioned that the Institute of Chemical Physics of the RA National Academy of Sciences will continue cooperating with the University of Notre Dame in the direction of the research of SHS processes and the development of technologies on the basis of the latters. Suren Kharatian also mentioned that the Institute of Chemical Physics has provided the University of Notre Dame with one of the four electrothermography apparatuses made in the institute and processed by him. That apparatus is envisaged for measuring the changes of the physical and electric parameters of the substance during the SHS processes, as well as for modeling the above-mentioned processes.

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