YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Institute of Chemical Physics of the RA National Academy of Sciences (NAS) signed a cooperation agreement with Sasun Investments company (Canada), according to which this company will deal with the issue of commercialization of a 5th generation electrothermograph that is being designed at the institute, NT correspondent was informed by Suren Kharatian, the head of the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis kinetics laboratory and the chemical physics chair of Yerevan State University. According to him, the 5th generation electrothermograph is being designed and made with resources of Sasun Investments, a company headed by a Canadian Armenian businessman who previously sponsored some programs of the institute. In the words of S. Kharatian, the electrothermograph allows to make 10-25 thousand measurements of physical and electric parameters of a metal wire after heating it to the temperature of 500-3,500 degrees centigrade, as well as to make electron microscope analyses. The speaker noted that the electrothermograph can mainly be used in material science, inorganic chemistry, solid-state physics, and high-temperature technics. "No other device for studying and modelling self-propagating high-temperature processes has been created by anyone," the laboratory head said, adding that as compared with the similar device of the previous generation, the electrothermographer currently under design will not have limitations in terms of measuring the duration of the process, its frequency and recording its graphic presentation in the real regime of time. With the aim of eliminating the indicated limitations, some microprocessors to ensure connection with a computer will be installed in the electrothermograph.

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