Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)
Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого (СПбПУ)
Russia
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, more habitually known in Russia and abroad as the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, is a multidisciplinary research and education center. The university is situated in one of the most beautiful cities in the world – St. Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, is rightfully called the cultural capital of Russia. A metropolitan city of five million people, it every year attracts nearly seven million tourists, of which about one half are foreign guests coming from all over the world.
Polytechnic University maintains and strengthens multicultural traditions established by Peter the Great, the historic emperor who directed Russia toward Enlightenment. More than 6000 overseas students are studying at our university and this number keeps growing every year.
Polytechnic University is integrated into the global academic community being a partner of many research and educational institutions and industrial companies. Research at the Polytechnic University is focused on the most important problems in science, engineering and technology:
- Nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, radio physics and electronics, physical and chemical bases of the organization of biological systems, biophysics, bioinformatics, medical physics and engineering, physical chemistry, space exploration.
- Physical and technical problems of power engineering, nature resource management, urban management systems.
- Computer science, control systems and cybernetics, robotics, telecommunications systems.
- Mechanics, construction materials, nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, physical and chemical basis of metallurgical processes.
For more than a century, the history and glory of the Polytechnic University was created by the people who had taught and studied here, including Nobel Prize winners P.L. Kapitsa, N.N. Semyonov, Z.I. Alferov, famous physicists A.F. Ioffe, I.V. Kurchatov, A.A. Radzig, Y.B. Khariton, Constuctor General O.A. Antonov, and many other talented and famous scientists.
Nowadays, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has a prominent role in the scientific and educational community of the country and the world, seeking to integrate science and research activity into the educational process. The 21st century is extremely demanding to the quality of technical universities. The conceptual basis for the development of educational institutions is multilevel integration in the scheme “education - science - production”, transition to technosphere complexes, combination of advanced technologies in education, research and production.
We are happy to invite those who are interested in good education and good research to come to our university and benefit not only from its highly professional faculty, up-to-date university equipment and other facilities, but also have the great chance to live in our unique city.
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1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) published between 1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
Count | Share |
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64 | 2.21 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Physical Sciences | 61 | 1.95 | |
Chemistry | 1 | 0.13 | |
Life Sciences | 2 | 0.13 |
Highlight of the month
Luminescence properties of gold complexes explored
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A family of light-emitting gold complexes have been synthesized and their crystalline structures and luminescence properties characterized.
Compounds that emit light in response to external stimuli are used in a wide range of sensors. Luminescent gold(I) complexes with various chemical groups attached are highly promising in this regard.
Now, a Russian team that included a chemist from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has synthesized a family of gold(I) phosphine alkynyl complexes on a flexible substrate and investigated their luminescence properties.
The researchers found that the crystal structure, and hence the luminescence properties, varied depending on the kind of solvent used in crystallization. Theoretical calculations indicated that the luminescence properties, including the emission wavelength, depend on the rotation of the functional groups on the compounds.
- Inorganic Chemistry 59, 244–253 (2020). doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02091
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
An alternative response to the off-shell quantum fluctuations: a step forward in resolution of the Casimir puzzle
European Physical Journal C
2020-09-01
High Resolution Photoexcitation Measurements Exacerbate the Long-Standing Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem
Physical Review Letters
2020-06-01
Measurement of the Z(→ ℓ+ℓ−)γ production cross-section in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Journal of High Energy Physics
2020-03-10
1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 12.49% Domestic
- 87.51% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (16 total)
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
- Domestic institution
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Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia
(2.97)
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National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia
(1.94)
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Kazan Federal University (KFU), Russia
(1.31)
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Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia
(1.21)
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia
(0.57)
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ITMO National Research University (ITMO University), Russia
(0.42)
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Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI), Russia
(0.30)
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Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia
(0.27)
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National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia
(0.22)
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Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Russia
(0.11)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (579 total)
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
- Foreign institution
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(3.60)
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
(2.52)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(2.28)
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(1.67)
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA)
(1.15)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(1.14)
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Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC), France
(1)
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Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France
(0.77)
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
(0.77)
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RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany
(0.76)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia

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