The laboratory for conceptual materials and technologies will be created by NAS and Jilin University of China

The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Jilin University of China will create a joint laboratory on artificial intelligence and new conceptual materials and technologies. The relevant agreement was signed by the First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vitaly Zalessky during a working visit to the People's Republic of China. This was reported to the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti” in the press service of the NAS.

It is planned that the new joint research platform of Belarusian and Chinese scientists will cover such advanced scientific areas as artificial intelligence, optoelectronics, laser physics, materials science and the creation of new materials, biomedicine, mineral processing, etc. The project will become a strategic platform for the introduction of high-tech innovations in the real sector of the economy.

- We combine competencies to accelerate the path from a laboratory sample to a high-tech product in demand in the markets of Belarus and China, as well as third countries, Zalessky said in his speech at the signing ceremony of the agreement with the rector of Jilin University Zhang Xi.

The basic organization in the project from the Belarusian side will be the Institute of Physics named after B.I. Stepanov NAS. It will also include such scientific institutions as the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, the Institute of Physiology, the Institute of Powder Metallurgy named after Academician O.V. Roman and the Scientific and Practical Center for Materials Science. The main organization in the creation of the joint laboratory on the Chinese side was the International Center for Future Science of Jilin University. The second university hospital and specialized colleges in artificial intelligence, chemistry, physics, materials science and electronics will also take part in the research project.

Belarusian and Chinese scientists will focus on solving critical tasks for high-tech sectors of the modern economy.