RUSNANO project

Contents
Making investments 4
Creating financial infrastructure 6
How a request becomes a project financed by RUSNANO 8
Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs 10
Production facility locations 12
Solar energy and energy conservation 13
Nanostructured materials 20
Medicine and biotechnology 34
Mechanical engineering and metalwork 41
Optoelectronics and nanoelectronics 51
Infrastructure projects 68

Having developed its vision for the role the Russian Federation could play in the
growing global nanotechnology industry, in 2007 the Russian government created
state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies to execute its strategies
and to build infrastructure for innovation. In March 2011, for transparency and
effectiveness within the global high-tech investment community, the corporation
was reorganized as open joint-stock company RUSNANO and the non-commercial
Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs.
The primary goal of RUSNANO is to commercialize nanotechnology advances through
co-investment in projects with substantial economic potential. The Government
of the Russian Federation owns 100 percent of the shares in RUSNANO. The Fund
for Infrastructure and Educational Programs is aimed at creating infrastructure for
innovation in the country.
The most important objectives in RUSNANO’s work remain unchanged: by 2015 the
value of nano-enabled products manufactured by companies in which RUSNANO
invests is to reach or exceed 300 billion rubles; the aggregate worth of the entire
Russian nanoindustry’s output is to reach 900 billion rubles.

State corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies

OPEN JOINT-STOCK FUND FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPANY RUSNANO AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Business entity Noncommercial organization

Investment projects: Innovative infrastructure:

Stimulation Infrastructure projects and programs
Selection Foresight, road maps
Business structuring Standardization, certification, metrology
Cofinancing Education, popularization
Implementation Nanotechnology International Forum
RUSNANOTECH

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Making
Investments
In building a business model for its investment modernize existing production. To win approval
projects, in investing its own financial resources, for RUSNANO cofinancing, a project must satisfy
and in attracting monies from private co-investors the following criteria:
to finance projects, RUSNANO has found an
• be technically feasible
approach that transforms scientific advances with
• be economically effective
commercial potential into functioning, productive
• be related to nanotechnology
businesses.
• establish production within Russia
• have forecasted annual income in five years
RUSNANO finances of 250 million rubles or greater
projects whose annual
income in five years is RUSNANO uses various forms of investment:
forecasted at 250 million investment in owner’s equity of the project
rubles or greater. company, loans, credit guarantees, and leasing
operations.
The company co-invests in a broad range
of projects—from solar energy and energy
conservation to biotechnology and medicine,
to electronics and mechanical engineering.
It gives priority to projects that will establish
new manufacturing facilities or broaden and

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RUSNANO has developed a unique, multistage Plants with co-investment
system for selecting the projects in which it will
co-invest. One important component is the from RUSNANO began
analysis of how proposed products would fair manufacturing nano-enabled
as competitors at home and in international products in 2010.
markets. Many of the projects approved by
RUSNANO will produce goods at the forefront
of global technology. These will have export The first plants with co-investment from
potential. RUSNANO began manufacturing nano-enabled
products in 2010:
• A plant in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, began
Analysis of product producing solid-cast, hard-alloy monolithic
competitiveness in domestic metal-cutting instruments with nanostructured
and international markets is coatings. There is no other production like it in
Russia.
an important consideration in • A plant in St. Petersburg began manufacturing
choosing projects. ultrabright LEDs and LED modules. Lighting
systems derived from these LEDs are
comparable in brightness to the world’s best
Here are examples of our highly competitive
models. This is the first plant of its kind in Russia
projects manufacturing goods for export:
and the largest in the CIS.
• Technology for new materials. The VIRIAL metal • A plant in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan,
ceramics project uses silicon carbide to obtain began producing precision electrochemical
highly durable ceramic composites that are units for manufacturing components of
without analogue elsewhere in the world. nanostructured materials. The units can process
• In the Microbor project, material is virtually any current-carrying metal and alloy,
synthesized from powder containing up to including the hardest of them. The equipment
25 percent nanosized cubic boron nitride. Its surpasses global competitors by exactitude of
microhardness is twice that of the best foreign processing, productivity, and surface quality.
and domestic rivals, and its abrasion resistance
is three- to fourfold greater.
• The Connector Optics project produces a RUSNANO USA, Inc.
new generation of receiver-transmitters
RUSNANO subsidiary RUSNANO USA, Inc.
using vertical laser beams for optical
represents the interests of the company,
communications links. These optical modules
its project companies, and the Fund for
surpass competitors in maximum modulation
Infrastructure and Educational Programs in the
frequency, continuous wave, range of working
United States and Canada. It promotes, as well,
temperature, and breadth of spectral line.
Russian nanotechnology products in global
In photodetectors, take-up speed, range
markets.
of working temperature, and operating
RUSNANO USA, Inc. seeks projects for technology
wavelengths are all superior.
transfer to Russia, collaborating with American
• RMT’s thermoelectric cooling
venture capital and direct investment funds,
micromodules for optics and
high-technology companies, universities, and
microelectronics outstrip similar
centers for commercializing technology that are
products in the nomenclature of
interested in implementing joint projects with
its standard microsystem, minimal
RUSNANO.
overall dimensions, power density,
The US subsidiary is building a network of North
and meantime between failures.
American partners in all areas of
the company’s activities,
In addition to market viability
combining its energies
analyses, projects are evaluated
with the dynamism
for their ability to replace
of other Russian
imports, transfer technology with
institutions for
implementation in Russia, and make
development—
significant social contributions.
Skolkovo
Foundation and
Russian Venture
Company.

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Creating
Financial Infrastructure
RUSNANO participates in founding venture investment fund. All are directed toward entry
capital funds that foster the emergence of into global capital markets, gaining access
nanotechnology and innovative companies, to innovative foreign developments through
promote commercialization and transfer of international partnerships, and drawing on
technologies, and encourage a culture of foreign experience to manage and improve
innovative entrepreneurship in Russia. infrastructure for innovation.
The venture funds take a variety of forms,
reflecting the diversity of the companies with
which RUSNANO works: small-budget, sector-
specific, and international funds. By establishing
regional small-budget funds, we expect to
impact the evolvement of nanotechnology in the
subjects of the Russian Federation and encourage
nanotech dispersal across our large country.
In the international arena, RUSNANO and
international leader Draper Fisher Jurvetson
have created an international venture capital
fund. There are, as well, the Russian-Kazakh and
the Russian-Israeli funds, the EuroTech Transfer
fund and RUSNANO Capital—RUSNANO's global

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Investment funds in nanotechnology

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INTERGOVERNMENTAL FUNDS
Typical project size: Typical project size:

500 million rubles 200 million
to $300 million to 350 million rubles
RUSNANO Capital: 32 billion rubles Russian-Kazakh Fund:
EuroTech Transfer: 15 billion rubles 3.0 billion rubles
DFJ-VTB Aurora: 3.3 billion rubles Russian-Israeli Fund:
3.0 billion rubles

SECTOR PROJECTS SMALL-BUDGET PROJECTS
Typical project size: Typical project size:

300 million 100 million
to 400 million rubles to 250 million rubles
Nanomet: metallurgy sector fund Skolkovo-Nanotech:
3.0 billion rubles 2.0 billion rubles
Kama Fund First:
2.0 billion rubles
Fund for Small-Budget Projects:
1.98 billion rubles

A marketplace
for innovation
and investment
In cooperation with RUSNANO, the Moscow
Interbank Currency Exchange has created a
new exchange sector, MICEX Innovation and
Investment Market—a transparent mechanism
for attracting investments to the high-
technology sector of the Russian economy.
Investors may enter the market at any point
along the investment chain, from financing the
company engaged in innovation in its earliest
stages to the period of preparation for an initial
public offering. This project with the MICEX
serves small and medium-sized high-tech
companies that are taking their first steps in
capital markets.

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How a Request Becomes
a Project Financed by RUSNANO
RUSNANO has developed a multistep process STEPS IN EVALUATING A REQUEST
of expert review that enables us to choose A request to RUSNANO for cofinancing will go
technically realizable and economically through seven steps:
substantiated projects from the hundreds of
Step 1.
requests we receive each year. The company
Request for project review
finances projects whose annual earnings in five
The applicant must register a private cabinet on
years will reach or exceed 250 million rubles.
RUSNANO’s official website, www.rusnano.com,
As soon as a project functions independently,
after which he will complete the following forms,
RUSNANO sells its shares to invest proceeds in
which are presented on the site:
other projects.
• project application
BY SUBMITTING AN INQUIRY • applicant’s form
FOR PROJECT COFINANCING, • project specifications
THE APPLICANT: • scientific and technical feasibility of the project
• receives professional expert evaluation of the • business plan with information on key
project proposal participants
• brings to light new applications for innovative
products Step 2.
• if successful, establishes a promising business Entry review
During this stage, the application is assessed
for completeness. The project office notifies the
applicant of results of entry review. If it satisfies
RUSNANO’s requirements, the application is
allocated to one of our investment teams for
continuation. If an application is incomplete, the
applicant will be invited to make corrections or
additions.

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Step 3. Step 7.
Science and technology expert evaluation Project financing
The science and technology expert evaluation Once a project has been approved, participants
ascertains whether project content is relevant sign the legally binding documents and the
to nanotechnology and assesses the scientific parties proceed to project financing.
validity and technical feasibility of the proposal.
The term from the moment a request is
Each project is evaluated by three to five Russian submitted to the signing of the investment
and foreign experts accredited by RUSNANO agreement is 240 days.
for this purpose. Experts work independent of
At all stages of project implementation,
one another and of the company. If the experts’
RUSNANO controls the expenditure of financial
opinions diverge at the conclusion of the
resources invested in the project by participating
evaluation, an intramural review is scheduled and
in management bodies of the project company
new experts are appointed.
and through a treasury mechanism that ensures
Step 4. fulfillment of the budget.
Investment evaluation
During this stage, analysts conduct detailed
assessments of the business plan, the market
in which products would have to compete, the
Aggregate budgets
project’s attractiveness to investors. Discussions of the 112 projects approved
are held with potential co-investors in preparation for cofinancing by RUSNANO
for the investment agreement for the project. are 371.1 billion rubles.
Step 5. Of this sum, RUSNANO will
Project review: Science and Technology Board co-invest 167 billion rubles.
The Science and Technology Board, which is
composed of prominent scientists, studies the
conclusions that have been drawn from the
earlier evaluations by experts. The board then
issues a recommendation to the Executive Board
and the Board of Directors of RUSNANO on the
suitability of cofinancing the project or suggests
that the application be declined.
Step 6.
Project approval
After favorable recommendation from
the Science and Technology Board, the
project goes through the Investment
Council and enters Executive Board
review. If the proposed co-investment
is between 300 million rubles and 1.3
billion rubles and less than one percent
of the book value of RUSNANO’s assets, the
Executive Board may decide independently on
financing. If the proposed co-investment exceeds
1.3 billion rubles or is equal to or exceeds one
percent of the book value of RUSNANO’s assets,
the project must go to the Board of Directors
for approval. Likewise, the Board of Directors
approves participation in small-budget (less than
300 million rubles) projects and in all investment
funds.

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Fund for Infrastructure
and Educational Programs
The Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Nanocenters are distinguished for the level of
Programs is a noncommercial organization private capital they are able to attract. They offer
established during the reorganization of the opportunities for profitable investment thanks to
Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. The the division of each into independent business
fund fosters advances in the nanoindustry by units:
creating infrastructure, educational programs,
• a center for technology transfer
and standards and encourages development in
• a property asset —building
markets for nano-enabled products.
• a property asset—equipment

The Fund for Infrastructure and Educational
Programs will invest up to 19.6 billion rubles to
Nanotechnology centers establish 19 nanocenters between 2010 and 2015.
Interdisciplinary nanotechnology centers are By May 2011 two tenders had already been held
at the heart of infrastructure for growing the for nanocenters and six proposals had been
nanoindustry. Nanocenters take on several approved:
important functions:
• Nanotechnology center Idea, Kazan, Republic of
• applied development of nano-enabled Tatarstan
products, experimental design and • Multifunctional nanotechnology center Dubna,
preproduction technical work for commercial Moscow Oblast
customers • Nanotechnology center Nano- and
• protection of a company’s intellectual property Microsystem Technology, Zelenograd, Moscow
• management and marketing support for small • Multidisciplinary nanotechnology center Sigma,
innovative companies Tomsk and Novosibirsk in Siberia
• incubation of startups, including packaging of • Nanotechnology center Technopark, Troitsk,
small innovative companies Moscow Obast
• product testing and certification • Nanotechnology center Ulyanovskiy, Ulyanovsk
Oblast

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Educational programs International forum
To continue its growth trajectory, the Russian RUSNANOTECH
nanoindustry will need more than 100,000
highly qualified specialists whose knowledge
The Nanotechnology International Forum
and skill in their areas are coupled with an
RUSNANOTECH began in 2008 as an annual
interdisciplinary professional perspective. The
forum for discussion of the most topical issues
fund has already begun meeting this challenge
in the nanoindustry, in Russia and worldwide.
through educational programs contracted with
The forum has become a valued venue for
universities and other educational institutions. To
scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors and
date, training has centered on raising professional
government leaders engaged in processes of
qualifications and retraining, foremost, of
innovation.
employees of the project companies in which
RUSNANO has invested. More than 10,000 people from 75 regions
of the Russian Federation and 50 foreign
By May 2011 more than 1,300 individuals had
countries attended the Third Nanotechnology
completed or were in training in 43 educational
International Forum in 2010. There were 400
programs of two types: programs with
speakers—international experts, scientists,
engineering and technology focus and programs
and heads of large international and Russian
that train managers and entrepreneurs in skills
companies. President of the Russian Federation
particular to managing in environments of
Dmitry Medvedev and 2010 Nobel Prize winners
innovation.
Konstantin Novoselov and Zhores Alferov
The educational programs are taught by spoke during the forum. As in previous years,
instructors who have trained at universities in the program included business and science
Russia and abroad, and by foreign specialists and technology sections, stand presentations,
recognized for contributions to their fields. The and reports from contestants in the Third
fund has established joint programs with some of International Competition of Scientific Papers
the best universities in the world. in Nanotechnology for Young Researchers.
Hundreds of Russian and foreign companies
The educational programs of the fund draw
presented their advances during the exhibition
on leading Russian scientific and educational
that accompanied the forum.
centers and foreign universities and companies,
among them: Stockholm School of Economics The Fourth Nanotechnology International Forum
Russia, MIT and Babson College (USA) , Feng Chia RUSNANOTECH will take place on October
University (Taiwan), Technical University of 26–28, 2011, at the Expocentre in
Berlin (Germany), Kember Associates Moscow.
(United Kingdom), Alcatel-Lucent
(Ireland), Bell Labs and Skylight
Navigation Technology (USA),
OMMIC (France), and Optogan’s
Dortmund research center
(Germany).
Concerned that future
generations should find work
as nanoindustry professionals,
in 2010 the fund initiated
the RUSNANO School League
for students at pre-university
levels who are in early stages
of professional orientation and for
teachers who need methodological
support. The project is taking place in 20
schools from 10 regions of the Russian Federation.
Together with Moscow State University, the
fund conducts the annual all-Russia olympiad
Nanotechnology—Breakthrough to the Future! In
2010 nearly 5,500 students from 81 regions of the
Russian Federation and 29 foreign countries took
part in the contest.

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Production facility locations

Moscow, Khimki, Zelenograd
Dubna

Khotkovo, Fryazino, Pereslavl-Zalessky

Troitsk
Vladimir Nyagan
Sudogda
Izhevsk, Perm
Rybinsk Nizhny Novgorod
St. Petersburg Kazan Surgut

Podolsk

Dolgoprudny
Serpukhov

Karachev

Belgorod Usolie-Sibirskoe

Kursk, Voronezh Krasnoyarsk
Ufa Tomsk
Kaluga Almetevsk Novosibirsk, Berdsk
Novomoskovsk Tyumen
Saransk
Stavropol Aramil
Novocheboksarsk
Volograd Kamensk-Uralsky
Nevinnomyssk

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energy conservation
RUSNANO's
financing (equity
capital and loans) exceeds

35.1
Solar energy and

billion rubles

Aggregate budgets
for projects in this
area exceed

77.2
billion rubles

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Cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
• Production of nanosized composite cathode material from lithium iron phosphate for use in lithium-ion batteries

Project participants Total budget
• RUSNANO
1,577 million rubles
• Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant RUSNANO financing
• TVEL-Leasing 785 million rubles
Areas of application
Competitive advantages
• Lithium-ion batteries for electrotransport
• Low production costs
• Low cost of raw material (carbothermal
Project stages reducton of Fe2O3)
• Accelerated synthesis
• Fewer stages in production process
Market share Market share Market share
4% 5% 7% • Improved surface conductivity

Market
Project Production Design
capacity
initiation
Q2
start up
Q3 Q1 • Primary customer—LIOTECH, a project
company cofinanced by RUSNANO that
produces lithium-ion batteries for electric
2011 2013 2014 2015 vehicles
• Manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries

Production locations
Novosibirsk
Creation of 162 new jobs

The project will produce nanosized composite
cathode material from lithium iron phosphate
using a mechanical activation method developed
by scientists at the Institute of Solid State
Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To
develop the technology, the scientists drew on
the experience of specialists at the Novosibirsk
Chemical Concentrates Plant. During preparation
of the cathode material, a nanosized carbon
electroconducting coating will be applied to
raise the electron and ion conductivity of the
substance—another innovation in the project.

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Thunder Sky lithium-ion batteries
Project company Li-ion Technologies (LIOTECH)
• Russia’s first large-scale manufacturer of new generation lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles
and power supply systems

• RUSNANO
• Thunder Sky Group (China) RUSNANO financing
• Sberbank 7,590 million rubles
Market share*
Russia 60% Competitive advantages
worldwide 5%
Project stages • High-capacity batteries
(600 Ah for electric transport)
Exports
• Rapid battery charging (70% in 10 minutes)
80% • Safe batteries
Sales volume
initiation start up capacity 13,114
June Q4 December million rubles
annually
Market
• Producers of electric buses, trucks, and other
2010 2011 2012 2015 electric vehicles
• Electric grid systems
* Electric vehicle battery market

Production location
Novosibirsk

Under a project with Chinese company
Thunder Sky, which is also project co-investor,
manufacturing facilities will be built in
Novosibirsk with four of Thunder Sky’s production
lines.
Thunder Sky is a leading mass producer of
rechargeable batteries for mini- and electrobuses.
This will be the first Russian-based enterprise to
produce lithium ferro-phosphate batteries used
in electric vehicles, primarily buses with electric
motors. The batteries have the great advantage
of being free of “memory effect” after numerous
charge and discharge cycles.
When used in public transportation, the batteries
guarantee a 350-kilometer energy reserve after
one charge. These batteries can be given a quick
recharge in only 30 minutes.
In the future, new technologies will expand the
energy reserve to 600 kilometers after one charge.

www.liotech.ru

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Solar modules using Oerlikon thin film technology
Project company Hevel
• Solar modules based on thin film technology from Oerlikon Solar

• RUSNANO
• Renova Group RUSNANO financing
Products
• Building-integrated • Low production costs
and building-applied photovoltaics • Proprietary science and technology center
• Environmentally safe production and exploitation

Project stages Market share
>85% in Russia
• Solar photovoltaic up to 5%
Southern Europe
power stations
Sales volume
Project Production
initiation start up
Design
capacity
9,000
Q4 December million rubles
annually

2009 2011 2012 2015
Novocheboksarsk, Chuvash Republic

This project for large-scale production of solar
modules will have capacity of one million solar
units per year, an annual output of 130 MW. In
its full-cycle solar module manufacturing, the
project company will employ state-of-the-art thin
film technology—micromorph silicon thin film
photovoltaic cells developed by Swiss company
Oerlikon Solar, world leader in the solar energy
market.
The project will stimulate production of allied
goods, particularly domestic production of
ultrapure industrial gases and special glass.
The markets for the solar modules are mainly Italy,
Spain, Greece, and Germany. In the long term,
the company expects to sell a substantial share STANDARD CELL MICROMORPH
TANDEM STRUCTURE CELL
of the solar modules in the
Russian market.
Front glass
ZnO front contact
a-Si a-Si

ZnO back contact μc-Si

Reflector

Back glass
www.hevelsolar.com

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Nano-enabled concentrator solar power units
Project company Sunny Stream
• Production of nanoheterostructured photo converters, highly efficient solar modules,
and power plants that incorporate these elements

• RUSNANO
Exports
• Private co-investor 95% RUSNANO financing
Project stages Design capacity
Q2
Competetive advantages
Project Production
Sales volume
• Greater efficiency of multi-cascade
initiation start up 5,500
photoconverters compared with other solar
Q4 Q4 million rubles
annually
technolologies

2011 2012 2016 Area of application
• Solar power generation
Concentrator solar power plants in this project
employ new-generation cascading solar
elements based on nano-heterostructures that
photoelectrically convert concentrated light, St. Petersburg, Stavropol
Fresnel lenses that provide up to 900-fold solar
power concentration, and high-precision sun-
tracking systems.
In these concentrator photovoltaic modules,
direct solar radiation falling on the surface of a
Fresnel lens (e.g., 50 mm x 50 mm) is focused on a SOLAR INSTALLATIONS USING NANOTECHNOLOGY

highly efficient cascade solar cell of less than four Photoelectrical Nanoheterostructual
square millimeters. Specially designed naturally modules semiconductor
cooling heat sinks protect the solar modules from
Section (2 lenses) Structure of cascade
overheating.
of concentrator module photoconverter optimized for
The cascade solar photo elements that are comprising 144 Fresnel use with 1000x solar radiation
mini-lenses and cascade concentrations; efficiency factor
to be used in tandem with the concentrators
photoconverters of 33% to 45%.
will be produced with a chemical vapor
deposition method which has been modified to
accommodate different semiconductor materials Ag/Au contact
n-GaAs
on a germanium substrate. Front sheet of silicate ARS InGaP –
top element 1.86 eV
glass
The project will establish Silicon Fresnel lense n-AlInP opening Tunnel junction
full-cycle production: grow n-InGaP emitter (20 nm)
Solar element p-InGaP base
nanoheterostructures, (cascade p-AlInP BSF
GaAs – middle
p-AlGaAs/n-InGaP
produce chips, assemble photoconverter) n-InGaP opening element 1.40 eV
Back sheet n-GaAs emitter
modules, produce sun-tracking of silicate glass p-GaAs base Tunnel junction
systems, and assemble solar Top bus p-InGaP BSF
p-GaAs/n-GaAs
(20 nm)
Copper base
photovoltaic units. (heat remover)
n-GaAs
n-InGaP Buffer layers
Production volume for the units n-Ge emitter
has been targeted at about Channel for silica gel p-Ge base Ge- bottom
Ag/Au contact
element 0.65 eV
75 MW per year.

www.sunnystream.com

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Nanoheterostructured LEDs and energy-saving
LED lighting
Project company Optogan
• Development and production of ultrabright nanoheterostructured LEDs
• Production of lighting devices based in such LEDs
Total budget
Project participants 4,643 million rubles
• RUSNANO RUSNANO financing
• RIK 2,282 million rubles
• ONEXIM Group and Optogan founders
The project has established high-technology
• Proprietary patented technology for the
industrial production of lighting systems based
production of LEDs with efficiency exceeding
on gallium nitride semiconductor chips. Light-
• Vertically integrated production
emitting diodes, LEDs, are semiconducting units
• Competitive prices
that emit light when electric current passes
through them. They have neither glass bulbs
nor filaments, making them mechanically stable
and reliable; with neither heat emission nor • Industrial and home lighting
high voltage, the lights are electrically and fire • Backlighting in mobile devices, laptops, and TVs
safe. Their super-small size and built-in light • Car lighting
distribution promote flat, compact, easy-to-
install lighting devices. Production locations
The company produces LED chips and lamps St. Petersburg
as well as lighting systems comparable in Creation of 1,350 new jobs
brightness to the best LEDs in the world. By
using technology with record-low defects
in semiconductor layers, these devices work
Project stages Sales volume
with high-density current without losing 14,500
million rubles
effectiveness, yielding a high ratio of brightness annually
to price for LED chips.
Project Production Design Energy savings
The unique chip production technology initiation start up capacity
10,000
July Q4 Q4
was developed by the founders of the million rubles

German-Finnish company OptoGaN, Maxim
Odnoblyudov and Vladislav Bougrov—once 2009 2010 2011 2015
students of Nobel Prize winner and Russian
Academy of Sciences member Zhores Alferov.
By creating this new business, these scientists LIGHT-EMITTING STRUCTURE OF LED CHIP
DIODE
bring to Russia one of the most promising
Semitransparent
developments made by Russian scientists in p-contact
recent years. p-GaN layer

Lighting based on semiconductor Nanoheterostructures
active layer
nanoheterostructures has already begun to
replace incandescent, fluorescent, and other n-GaN layer

traditional light sources. Using LEDs will reduce Substrate
significantly electric power consumption and
costs for electric energy and exploitation of
lighting systems.

www.optogan.ru

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Polysilicon and monosilane production
Project company Usolie-Sibirsky Silicon
• Russia’s first large-scale manufacturing of polysilicon and monosilane—
5,000 tons and 200 tons, respectively

Project participants NITOL companies Usolie-Sibirsky Silicon and
Usoliekhimprom in Usolie-Sibirskoe, Irkutsk
• RUSNANO
Oblast, are setting up high-tech complexes where
• NITOL Group
they will manufacture polycrystalline silicon and
• Sberbank
monosilane.
• Eurasian Development Bank
Polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) is the basic
semiconductor material used in modern
Project stages Design capacity
microelectronics, electric power, solar energy,
polysilicon
production
and micromechanics. More than 80 percent of
production of the world’s solar cells is based on
Sales volume
polysilicon. Five countries provide most of the
Project Production Design capacity
initiation start up monosilane 12,891 polysilicon production: the United States, Japan,
Q2 Q2 production million rubles
annually Germany, Italy, and China.
Monosilane is used widely in microelectronics
2009 2010 2012 2015 and, increasingly, in photovoltaics for thin film
solar modules.
The new plants in Irkutsk Oblast will produce
raw materials for further development of Russian
• Solar power generation microelectronics. They are a meaningful step
• Microelectronics toward forming a new industry in Russia— solar
energy engineering.
Production location
Usolie-Sibirskoye, Irkutsk Oblast Сompetitive advantages:
Creation of 1,000 new jobs
• Project implementation at integrated industrial
complexes in proximity to deposits of metallurgical
grade silicon
• Previous experience of the NITOL Group in
successfully implementing integrated projects in
the chemical industry
• Proprietary production of trichlorosilane—the main
raw material for polysilicon production

www.nitolsolar.com

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RUSNANO's
financing (equity

18.6
billion rubles

Aggregate budgets
area exceed

42.4 billion rubles
Nanostructured
materials

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Nanomodified PET fiber
Project company VLADPOLYTEX
• Production of nonwoven materials of noncombustible PET fiber modified with a crazing technology

• RUSNANO 899 million rubles
• TEMBR-BANK RUSNANO financing
• Kurchatov Institute
• Chemistry Department, 102 million rubles
Moscow State University
Areas of application • Non-combustible
• Environmentally sound
• Thermal insulation for dwellings
• Non-hazardous to health
and commercial buildings
• Service life exceeding 50 years
• Manufacturing of automobiles and railway cars
• Furniture making
Market Sudogda, Vladimir Oblast
• Construction companies
• Furniture manufacturers
Russia’s burgeoning construction industry
Social impact by 2015 needs new thermal insulation solutions.
Thermal insulating materials based on PET fiber
• Improvement in the environment through
address many current concerns: they are non-
recycling of PET products (bottles, packages, etc.)
combustible, environmentally safe, have long
that are now mostly burned, releasing poisonous
service lives, and reduce energy use. (Properly
substances and greenhouse gases into the
insulated dwelling facades require 30% less
atmosphere
energy for heating.) The materials are simple to
use—may be cut with ease, taped, or stapled.
Project stages They are biological and bacterially stable. The
Domestic
materials do not rot, crumble, or mold; they are
Project
initiation
market impervious to rodents and insects. The products
October 1.3% in which the fibers are used are recyclable, and
that will give further impetus to the secondary
Domestic Domestic Domestic
Production Design market market market PET market.
start up capacity
October December 1.6% 2.9% 3.2%

2010 2012 2013 2014 2015

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Nanostructured ultradurable cable with high
electrical conductivity
Project company NANOELECTRO
• Production of electrical cable with unique characteristics derived from nanotechnology

• RUSNANO
• Joint-stock company VNIINM RUSNANO financing
450 million rubles
• Aircraft engineering
• Shipbuilding
• Electronics
• High-speed rail • Combination of sturdiness and electrical
conductivity
Project stages • Proprietary production technology

Products
Market share
0.14% • Wound cable with rectangular intersection for
high power impulse magnets and magnet-
Production Market share
pulse inductors
start up
October 6.3% • Compositional contact cables for high speed
railway transport
• Wire and cable of greater reliability for aviation
Project Market share Market share Design Market share
and space equipment, fleet, and defense
initiation
March 1.6% 4.2% capacity
December 6.5%
industry
• Particularly durable microcable for electronics,
mini-electric motors, and highly flexible cable
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Moscow

The project company will produce ultradurable,
highly conductive, nanostructured electrical
cable. Niobic nanowire of ten-nanometer
thickness in the cable lends particular durability,
while the electrical conductivity of the copper-
niobic conductor is only slightly below that of
pure copper conductors. Products will be used
in powerful impulse magnets and magnetic-
pulse inductors in industry, in contact cable for
high-speed rail, aircraft and space equipment,
shipbuilding, electronics, and in other
applications where particularly durable cable is
required.

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Colloidal quantum dots
Project company Nanotech-Dubna
• Production of quantum dots obtained with colloidal synthesis

• RUSNANO
71.5 million rubles
• Nanotech-Dubna RUSNANO financing
• Scientific Research Institute for Applied 35 million rubles
Acoustics
Areas of application • Flexibly variable fluorescent spectrum
• LEDs • High photostability
• Labelling • Low cost
• Medicine
• Solar batteries Production locations
• Future use in flexible electronics
Dubna, Moscow Oblast
and optoelectronic devices
Market
• LED producers
• Producers of biomedical markers Project Production
stages start up
• Electronics manufacturers Q2

Project Market
Design share
STRUCTURE OF COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS initiation capacity
Quantum dots—semiconducting crystals with sizes ranging
Q1 10%
from one nm to ten nm. The size of the nanoparticles provides
the capabilities that distinguish the crystals from volume
semiconductors. 2011 2014 2015

Quantum dots produced under this project will be
in demand, foremost, by producers of white LEDs,
Core — CdSe, CdS as quantum dots reduce the product’s cost and
increase brightness of the lights. They may be used
Shell — ZnS, CdS, ZnSe
in future medical applications, including oncologic
Amphiphilic surface treatment.
Colloidal quantum dots are nanosized
semiconducting crystal with florescent properties,
which, because of their small size, also exhibit
quantum properties that are characteristic
of individual molecules and not inherent to
macroscopic semiconductors. Absorbing radiant
energy in the broadband, they emit a narrow
spectrum of light waves whose length depends
upon the size of the particle. Quantum dots from
one material but of different sizes glow with
different colors. In comparison with traditional
florescent materials, the quantum dots possess
greater photostability, and their color does not
deteriorate over several years.

www.quantum-dots.ru

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Flame retardant of nanostructured magnesium
hydroxide with modified surface
Project company NikoMag
• Production of nanostructured magnesium hydroxide (fire-retardant additive)

• RUSNANO
• NIKOCHEM Group RUSNANO financing
• Nuclear energy Competitive advantages
• Defense and rocket equipment
• Lower combustibility of polymer materials
• Residential buildings
• Considerable reduction in loss from fires
• Transportation
• Advanced production method
• Less danger for people and pets when fires occur
Exports Production locations
Project stages 70%
Volgograd
Design capacity
Q3
Russia will soon be able to rely on its own
Sales production of halogen-free flame retardants
Project
initiation
Production
start up
2,491 (fireproofing and smoke suppressant additives) of
million rubles
annually nanostructured magnesium hydroxide.
Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster
2010 2013 2015 Relief of the Russian Federation reports that fires
in the country cause damages of 12 billion rubles
annually. It is imperative to reduce the flammability
of products and lower smoke and poisonous gases
from polymers used in construction, electronics,
and many other industries. Flame retardants will
decrease mortality, as most deaths during fires are
caused by poisoning from toxic combustion.
To date, Russia has not had its own production
of high-quality flame retardants. The entire
amount of aluminum trihydrate and
magnesium hydroxide—5,000 tons to 6,000
tons—is imported. A portion of the goods
produced will be sold as exports and are
expected to garner a strong position in the
market for halogen-free flame retardants.
Other magnesium-base chemicals will also be
produced: ultrapure magnesium oxide for steel
transformers and industrial rubber goods and
magnesium chloride for oil and gas production,
building materials manufacturing, and ice
formation remediation.

www.nikomag.com

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High-barrier polymer film for flexible packaging
Project company DANAFLEX-NANO
• High-barrier polymer films and flexible packaging materials

• RUSNANO
• DANAFLEX RUSNANO financing
Packaging:
• Food products
• Household cleaning products • Reduces preservatives in foodstuff
• Cosmetics • Extends product shelf life
• Food for animals • Lowers cost and weight of packaging
• Reduces production cycle to 1/7th
Production locations of traditional methods
• Environmentally sound materials
Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan
replace damaging ones
Flexible packaging is lightweight, safer for the
Exports
consumer, uses less energy to produce, and
to 20%
requires less space during transportation and
warehousing in comparison with traditional
Market share
Project stages in Russia packaging materials like metal and glass.
9.9%
Barrier properties of the film prevent penetration
Sales volume of moisture, oil, fat, petroleum products, most
Project
initiation
Production
start up
Design
capacity
4,230
household chemicals, gases, microbes, and UV
million rubles
annually radiation, maintaining the product’s quality.
Flexible packaging is usually produced from
2009 2010 2013 2015 polymer film, aluminum foil, and paper, which
are used separately or combined. The main
products in this segment are thin-layer polymers
(monofilms) or compounds for multilayer
structures containing plastics, cellulose (paper or
HIGH-BARRIER PACKAGING MATERIALS cardboard), or thin layers of aluminum.
Polymer films containing nanocomposites (in particular, silicon The new project company will manufacture
nanoclay) that improve barrier characteristics of packaging
high-barrier polymer film and flexible packaging
materials based on the film. This material is
designed mainly for packaging of food, household
chemicals, cosmetics, and pet food. High-barrier
flexible film is heat resistant, making it possible
to process contents in hot or cold temperature
regimes and to heat products in microwave ovens
without unwrapping them. Because of its barrier
characteristics, preservatives can be significantly
Al Si O H
reduced and shelf life extended for products packed
with this film.
Gas permeation, primarily Nanoclay monolayer Flexible high-barrier film is being introduced in
oxygen, blocked inside the film structure
by composite layer structure
many industries worldwide, but Russia has not
had domestic production to date.

www.danaflex.info

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New composite materials—prepregs
Project company Prepreg-SKM
• High-quality carbon and mineral fiber prepregs based on nanomodified and nanofilled polyimide
and epoxy resins

• RUSNANO
• Holding Company Composite RUSNANO financing
up to 3,252 million rubles
Project stages

Exports
A prepreg is a semi-finished composite material
Production
start up 40% produced by saturating a reinforced fibrous base
with a uniformly distributed binder. Impregnation
Sales volume is carried out in such a way as to maintain
Project
initiation
21,692 Design
capacity
maximally the physical and mechanical properties
million rubles
annually of the reinforcing material. Prepreg technology
makes it possible to obtain monolithic articles of
2009 2015 2018 complex forms with minimal tooling.
In the civil aircraft industry, these materials are
used to manufacture airplane and helicopter
bodies, wings, fairings, propellers, and rotors.
• Lighter weight of final products with better Composite materials reduce aircraft weight and,
mechanical properties as a result, fuel consumption; they increase the
• Only product of its kind in the Russian market strength and service life of the carriers. Use
of prepregs in production of blades for wind
turbines is a promising market for expansion.
PREPREGS ARE SEMI-FINISHED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Prepregs are produced by impregnating a reinforced fibrous base
In addition, prepregs can be used in the
with a premeasured and uniformly distributed binder. The surface shipbuilding and automobile industries, for
of the reinforcing material (carbon or glass-fiber) is nanomodified making ship hulls and non-structural auto body
by electrochemical or plasma etching or nanoparticle coating.
Polymer epoxy binders are nanomodified with polyimide
parts. In construction, prepregs can be used to
oligomers. reinforce concrete structures. They are adaptable
for the manufacture of prostheses and medical
devices as well as sports equipment.
The project’s realization will lead to competitive
domestic industrial production of nanofilled and
nanomodified prepregs from carbon fibers for
polymer composite materials and finished goods.
1D – unidirectional 2D – bidirectional Multi-axial fiber This will improve the competitiveness of Russian
reinforcing material. fibres of different is a fiber in which
weaving. Reinforcing reinforcing material
composite materials and increase significantly
material is has no layer weaving their use in Russia’s industrial sector.
positioned in two and is positioned
directions at a in more than two
specific angle. directions, for
example, at 0, +45,
90, and -45 degree
angles.

www.compozit.su

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Modified layered nanosilicates, masterbatches,
and polymer nanocomposites
Project company Metaclay
• Production of unmatched nanomaterials from bulk polymers and layered aluminosilicate
filler copolymers

• RUSNANO
• Metallist RUSNANO financing
Project stages Export share Areas of application
10%
• Packaging
Production • Food industry
Project Production Design volume
start start capacity • Pharmacological and pharmaceutical industries
Q2 Q2 Q4 4,900
million rubles • Automotive and aircraft industries
• Paints and coatings production
2010 2011 2012 2015 • Cable industry
• Construction and building materials industr

At the base of this new technology for obtaining
Karachev, Bryansky Oblast polymer nanocomposites lie developments
by Russian scientists working at some of the
Competitive advantages country’s leading institutes: A.V. Topchiev Institute
• Products with superior qualities of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian
and lower price Academy of Sciences, Institute of High-Molecular
• Manufacturing process suitable to developing Compounds of the Russian Academy of Science,
new products to meet individual customer and Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry.
requirements
Approximately 80 percent of the products will
be polymer nanocomposites of a moldable
POLYMER COMPOSITE BASED ON NANOCLAY
polymer base (matrix) and filler—nanosized
The polymer nanocomposite is a multicomponent material of plastic particles (10 nm to 200 nm) of organomodified
polymer base (matrix) and filler—a modified-organic nanoclay montmorillonite. When compared with
(montmorillonite). The structure of the monolayer of polymer conventional composites, these nanocomposites
nanocomposite and variations of organized microcomposites are
illusstrated below. have better properties, tear and heat resistance,
fire protection, gas- and watertightness.
Phase separated
Montmorillonite microcomposite: isolated
Polymer nanocomposites are already used
monolayer montmorillonite crystallites in industry to manufacture special coatings,
in the mixture.
Polymer does not intercalate packaging films with barrier properties,
Filler polymer silicate layers. Dimensions automotive parts and electronic devices, and in
(e.g. Nylon MXD 6) 10 – 20x70 – 1000 nm
the aircraft construction and the cable industries.
Intercalated microcomposite: In the future, their application is virtually
isolated montmorillonite
crystallites in the mixture. unlimited.
Silicate layers remain their
mutual orientation. These nanocomposites have no analogue.
Dimensions
15 – 20x70 – 1000 nm They have been designed to replace expensive
imported materials such as EVOH in packaging
Exfoliated nanocomposite: materials, adhesives, soft cable compounds
separate silicate layers
chaotically dispersed containing magnesium hydroxide and aluminum
in polymer. hydroxide, and many other less efficient products.
Dimensions
1 – 2x70 – 1000 nm

www.metaclay.ru

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Nanocomposite flexible polymer packaging
Project company Uralplastic-N
• Production of flexible polymer packaging using the company's own modified
nanocomposites

• RUSNANO
• Uralplastic RUSNANO financing
826 million rubles
Packaging: Competitive advantages
• Foodstuffs
• Exceptional tensile strength
• Household products
• Better barrier characteristics (permeability
• Industrial chemicals
and resistance to steam, solvents, aromas,
and gases)
Market potential • Better thermal characteristics (withstands
• Not less than 35% of domestic market for high- heat and freezing, resistant to sterilization
barrier packaging films. The market is growing and burning)
30% annually. • Antiblocking properties

Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Project stages
Sales volume
initiations start up capacity 5,200
million rubles

January February Q3
annually

URALPLASTIC: FLEXIBLE POLYMER PACKAGING MODIFIED
2010 2011 2012 2015 WITH NANOCOMPOSITES
A section of polymer packaging produced with a
mechanochemistry method. Gas-permeation of material is
reduced by inhibiting migration through the low-porosity,
Russia’s first full-cycle production of medium- nanodispersed structure of the polymer and nanoparticles.
barrier flexible packaging for consumer
products is based on technology for modifying
polymer materials with nanocomposites. The
materials combine properties from each of
their heterogeneous constituents—polymers
and ceramics: the flexibility, elasticity, and
processability of polymers and the hardness
and heat and wear resistance of ceramics.
The film that the project manufactures will be
used in packaging synthetic detergents, meat
products, dairy, pasta, and other consumables.
The new technology will lower manufacturing
costs, replacing more expensive traditional PA,
EVOH, and PVdC barrier materials.
Polymer particle
Ceramic nanoparticle Polymer layer adjacent
to modified particle

www.uralplastic.com

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Road paving modifier Unirem
Project company Unicom
• Unirem composite material derived from rubber powder and used in road construction as
a modifier for asphalt and butimen mixtures

• RUSNANO
• Novy Kauchuk LLC RUSNANO financing
• Construction of roads, highways, and airports
Economic impact
Competitive advantages Unirem use in road construction in Russia in
2010–2015 will save enough materials to build
• Greater durability and service life
4,000 km of new roads.
• Fewer ruts and reflective cracking
• Higher resistance to moisture and freezing
Social impact
• Low repair and maintenance costs
Reduction in the amount of used tires disposed
of through harmful means
This project centers on technology for
manufacturing paving asphalt modifiers with
micro- and nanomosaic structures based on Project stages
active rubber powder. The Unirem modifier
is produced by grinding used tires at high Sales volume

temperatures and under high pressure. After the
Project
initiation
Production
start up
Design
capacity
5,300
million rubles

annually
addition of the modifier, road surfaces become
highly durable, extending the time between
road repairs by 25 percent to 30 percent. 2009 2010 2014 2015
In 2005 through 2009, when road sections with
Unirem-based asphalt were monitored, the
surfaces showed higher resistance to shearing,
cracks, ruts, and water as well as excellent Podolsk, Moscow Oblast
resistance to cyclic deformations at very high
and very low temperatures.
ACTIVE RUBBER POWDER FOR UNIREM
In accordance with plans for development of COMPOSITE MATERIAL
Russian’s transportation system, up to 4.3 trillion High-temperature shear grinding technology
rubles will be allocated for road construction
and reconstruction in 2010 through 2015. The Parts of worn-out car tires
potential domestic market for road surface
modifiers, considering the total volume of
road construction, reconstruction, and repair
in Russia, is estimated at more than 10 billion
rubles in 2015.

Compressing
and express heating Particles of discrete
devulcanized
Continuous rubber with nano-
explosion and microblock
structure

PARTICLE OF DISCRETE DEVULCANIZED
RUBBER WITH NANO- AND MICROBLOCK
STRUCTURE

www.nk-group.ru

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Polytetrafluoroethylene-based antifriction and sealing
materials
• Production of sealing and antifriction construction materials of nanomodified high-molecular
polytetrafluorethylene

• RUSNANO
• Rosatom RUSNANO financing
• Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry 520 million rubles
• Engineering
• Nuclear energy • High antifriction and anti-adhesive properties
• Aircraft industry • Low strain relaxation factor
• Chemical industry • Greater durability of machinery and
mechanisms
Market • Resistant to chemicals, temperature, and
radiation
• Manufacturers of pipeline fittings, equipment
for heat distribution systems, and oil and gas
pipelines
• Manufacturers of hydrocylinders and friction Kaluga Oblast
bearings Creation of more than 50 new jobs

Economic impact by 2015 The project will produce construction
materials from nanomodified high-molecular
• Significant savings in consumable materials,
polytetrafluorethylene, or PTFE. The technology
packing, and densifiers at mechanical
for modifying the PTFE was developed by Russian
engineering companies and other industrial
scientists and has no analogue elsewhere in the
producers
world. Products from the project—manufactured as
slabs, cylinders, bars, pipes, and fabricated items—
will be used in antifriction and sealing goods for
Project stages machinery and mechanisms working in aggressive
environments as well as in the high temperatures
Market share Market share Market share Market share
and heavy loads of automotive construction, space
5% 16% 23% 29%
and nuclear industries, shipbuilding, and other
heavy industry.
initiation start up capacity
January June January

2012 2013 2014 2015

STRUCTURE OF POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE
AFTER BEING MODIFIED WITH RADIATION

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Pure quartz concentrate and quartz powder
Project company Polar Quartz
• Russia’s first vertically integrated complex for production of ultrapure quartz concentrates and powders
• Products will meet demand from Russian producers of quartz materials and goods

• RUSNANO
• Polar Quartz RUSNANO financing
• Corporation Ural Industrial – Ural Polar 1,290 million rubles
• Khanty-Mansiysk Bank
• Higher chemical purity of concentrates
Nyagan, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous
• Very low uranium and thorium content
Okrug-Yugra
in micropowders
As Russia develops its lighting industry and its
production of various types of solar batteries, • Polysilicon and monosilicon production
the country will experience dramatic growth in • Solar energy
the market for ultrapure quartz concentrates— • Micro- and nanoelectronics
the raw materials for making quartz crucibles • Optics
in which electronic and solar monocrystalline • Lighting engineering
silicon are grown. This project will produce quartz
micropowders and nanopowders and ultrapure
quartz concentrates.
Project stages Exports

Quartz nanopowders with particles of less 90%
than 100 nanometers are used widely in
Sales volume
microelectronics, construction, and exploitation
of oil and gas fields.
Project
initiation
Production
start up
2,099 Design
capacity
million rubles
annually
Quartz micropowder is a refined product
whose particles are less than 100 microns and
that is obtained by grinding natural quartz. It
2011 2013 2015 2016
is used as filler in the production of integrated
circuits. Utrapure quartz concentrates are
used in alternative energy and in the lighting, ULTRAPURE QUARTZ CONCENTRATES FOR ELECTRONICS,
semiconductor, optical, and fiber optics OPTICS, AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Fragment of a crystal lattice of alpha quartz
industries.

www.polarquartz.ru

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Germanium-based products for optical- and
nanoelectronic equipment
Project company Germanium and Applications
• Modernization of the production of germanium, an element of strategic importance
• Widening the line of germanium-based products

• RUSNANO
• Private co-investor RUSNANO financing
790 million rubles
• Infrared optics
• Solar energy
• Electronics • Proprietary mineral base in Primorsk Krai with
germanium-rich coal
Market • Vertically integrated production, reducing
dependence on imports
• Producers of infrared instruments, thermal
imagers, solar batteries for space applications
The project will conduct the full production cycle
Production locations for germanium-based goods, from extracting
and enriching the feedstock to the multistep
Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast
processing of the element into chemical
materials and then into four types of germanium-
based products:
Project stages
• Germanium monocrystals sold to producers
Production Project Design of infrared optics and electronic components.
initiation capacity
start up
January June • Germanium optical elements and wafers for
epitaxial growth of nanoheterostructures and
making solar panels.
2005 2010 2014 • Polycrystalline germanium—the base material
for growing germanium monocrystals with
dedicated properties for detectors, infrared
optics, solar panels and other applications.
• Germanium dioxide—a catalyst for organic
synthesis and synthetic fiber production. It is also
used in production of special glass with a high
refractive index and transparency in the infrared
spectrum, infrared optics, cosmetology, and in
making enamels and lacquers.

www.GeApplic.ru

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Nanostructures membranes and separating
modules based on them
Project company RM Nanotech
• Nanostructured membranes and separating modules for water purification in social
spheres and industry

• RUSNANO
• Vladipor-M RUSNANO financing
810 million rubles
Project stages
Design
capacity
• Competitive prices
• High-quality products
Sales volume
Exports
Project Production 1,467
Customers
initiation start up 30% million rubles
annually

• Engineering companies producing systems
2010 2012 2013 2015 for water purification for end users
• Companies engaged in the chemical,
pharmaceutical, and food industries

The project will offer two products: membrane Production locations
plating and membranous roll-fed modules
Vladimir
that are used in nano- and ultra-filtration and
reverse osmosis. They have pore sizes ranging
from one nanometer to 100 nanometers.
Membrane technology is widely used in all
areas of industry that require water and waste
treatment. Membrane technology used in
electro energy, microelectronics, pharmaceuti-
cals, and the food industry reduces costs in
obtaining water that is ultraclean, salt-free, and
free of dangerous microbes. Sewage treatment
and concentrated solutions in the chemical and
milk industries are obtained at lower cost with
membrane technology.
This project will replace imported goods with
domestic products that have better consumer
qualities. High-quality and low prices will make
the membrane technology competitive
globally.

www.rmnanotech.ru

33

Aggregate budgets
area exceed

33.3
billion rubles

RUSNANO's
financing (equity

14
billion rubles
biotechnology
Medicine and

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Cascade plasmapheresis equipment
using track membranes
Project company TRACKPORE TECHNOLOGY
• Trackpore membrane with pore diameters of 20 nm to 100 nm
• Multifunctional apparatuses for membrane plasmapheresis, cascade plasmafiltration, and other
efferent therapies

• RUSNANO
• Company founders RUSNANO financing
Cascade filtration is a high-tech procedure for
selectively removing viruses and harmful proteins Competitive advantages
from the blood while retaining the blood’s
• Unique cyclotron production technology
beneficial components.
for track membranes
The new filters are distinguished by track • Simplicity of use
membranes of polyethylene terephthalate with • Mobility
nanosized (20 nm to 100 nm) pores. Nanosizes • Accessibility to the public
are obtained by bombarding the polymer with
ions of inert gases with high atomic mass Areas of application
accelerated to high energies using
• Medicine
a cyclotron. Traces left by the
ions in the material (tracks)
are selectively treated with
ultraviolet radiation and Dubna, Moscow Oblast
chemical etching to create
pores with the required Project stages Exports
geometric characteristics.
up to 25%
The new procedure will be
Market share
used to treat atherosclerosis, 50
up to % Russia
coronary heart disease, 5
up to %
worldwide
angina pectoris, heart failure,
acute poisoning, and other Sales volume
Project
diseases. The project is at the initiation Production
start up
Design
capacity
3,800
august million rubles
annually
interface of a number of high-tech
fields: medicine, nuclear physics, and instrument
making. In addition to its use in medicine, 2009 2012 2014 2015
nanofiltration of liquid and gaseous media is
finding increasing application in other industries. NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATION
This will open the way for Russian company Production of filtration elements based on track-etched membranes
TRACKPORE TECHNOLOGY to develop a range of with nanoscale (20-nm to 100-nm diameter) pores
track membrane filtration technologies that will
be in high demand.

1 Bombarding 2 Fixation 3 Final track
the polyethylene of membrane membrane
terephthalate film tracks with with nanoscale
with heavy elements UV radiation and (20-nm to 100-nm
(inert gases) results alkaline with diameter) pores
in formation of tracks surface-active
where material is agents
largely destroyed

www.trackpore.ru

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Microsources, microspheres, and components
for brachytherapy
Project company Bebig
• Preparation and packaging of microsources for brachytherapy using isotope 125I
• Development and manufacturing of a new class of micro-sources using nanotechnology: nanostructured
microspheres of amophous material with isotope 90Y for treating liver and pancreatic cancer

• RUSNANO
928 million rubles
• Santis RUSNANO financing
• IBt Bebig 735.6 million rubles
Brachytherapy is used to treat malignant tumors. Competitive advantages
In this method of radiotherapy, the radiation
• Products without Russian analogue
source is placed within the diseased organ. The
• Competitive price
optimal dose of radiation is delivered directly
• Minimal side effects
to the tumor without exposing adjacent tissues
and organs. Brachytherapy is used extensively
worldwide; it has been used in 800 medical
centers in the United States and Western Europe • Medicine
for over 13 years.
This project will establish domestic production
of microsources, titanium capsules containing Dubna, Moscow Oblast
a gold wire (x-ray marker) and radionuclide
125
I (iodine-125) in the form of silver iodide
whose surface has been modified for better Project stages Production
start up
ultrasound visualization. Bebig will also produce (microspheres)
nanostructured microspheres of polymer, glass, Q1

or silicon particles whose structures incorporate Production
Project Design Design capacity
atoms of radioactive isotopes. They will have a initiation
start up
( 125 I microsources)
capacity (microspheres)
October ( 125 I microsources) Q4
diameter of about 30 microns. Q4 Q4

The microsources will be used to treat prostate,
liver, and pancreatic cancers, which gives this 2009 2012 2013 2014
project high social significance. There are more
than 2.5 million cancer patients in Russia for
whom these effective treatments MICROSOURCES
are essential. Prostate cancer New class of microsources based on Microsources for brachytherapy
is one of the most common amorphous materials modified with
diseases in the country. nanotechnology

Glass and polymer microspheres
(40 micron) containing 90Y isotope

Main part of External
microcapsule, nanomodified
40 micron diameter, layer (30-40 nm)
alloy of high-purity with improved
silicon (in grey) biocompatibility
and phosphor (in and retention
orange) in tissue

Silicon microspheres
(40 micron)
containing 32P isotope
www.bebig.ru

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Nanovaccines and biopharmaceuticals in pseudo-
adenoviral nanoparticles and self-assembling
nanostructures
Project company NTpharma
• Nanovaccines and nanopharmaceuticals

including non-material assects
• RUSNANO
• Prom-Bi (technology developer) 1,547 million rubles
Products 1,300 million rubles
• Flu vaccines produced without antigens
• Immune activators carried to the organism Competitive advantages
in nanocontainers
• Production cycle, half as long as
the conventional one
Project stages • No viruses multiplying in the cells

Sales volume
Market share
Project Production 1,395 Design
• Medicine
initiation start up 5% million rubles capacity
annually

Social impact by 2015
2010 2013 2014 2015 2017 Independence from import of vaccines

The project will bring two nanovaccines and four
Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast
pharmaceuticals to the market. The vaccines will
be used for protection against avian and human
influenza viruses.
RECOMBINANT ADENOVIRAL NANOPARTICLES
The technology to be used in manufacturing the AND NANOCONTAINER
nanovaccines will reduce the time for obtaining Structure of nanoparticles as carriers of human and avian
the drugs in industrial scale from 60 days to influenza virus genes, human lactoferrin virus gene,
28 days, something vital for development of endothelial growth factor genes, and human angiogenin
vaccines against pandemic strains of the influenza
virus. The pharmceuticals will be used to treat
various types of ischemia, urogenital infections,
and toxicosis and to activate the Foreign antigen gene
immune system.
All drugs and vaccines are
exclusive products of
NTpharma.

10 нм 10 нм

Recombinant pseudo-adenoviral Nanocontainer carrying
nanoparticle with genome where human lactoferrin
virus replication area is replaced by
expression case with target gene

www.ntpharma.ru

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Blood coagulation testing instruments
Project company Hemacore
• Medical equipment for diagnosis of insufficient (hemophilia) and excessive
(thromboses) clotting in the blood system

• RUSNANO 1,079 million rubles
• Medical Innovations RUSNANO financing
• Sberbank Capital
575 million rubles
Products Competitive advantages
• Diagnostic device to detect disorders in the
• Unique ability to predict thromboses
blood coagulation system in a single test
Areas of application Production locations
• Clinical-diagnostic laboratories Export
Moscow Oblast up to 25%

Project stages Domestic
market share
16%
Project Production Domestic Design
initiation start up market share capacity
To perform a diagnostic test October October 7%
in a cuvette, the analyzer
replicates the body’s
natural mechanisms of 2010 2012 2013 2015
blood coagulation. A
digital camera tracks BLOOD COAGULATION DIAGNOSTIC METHOD
the blood clotting at This diagnostic method is based on the fact that an accurately
the activator, which has oriented nanolayer of tissue factor triggers blood coagulation
a nanostructured coating in vitro in a test system. The layer thickness in the test system
(including the artificial phosphlipid membrane) is 30 nm to 50 nm,
of 30 nm to 50 nm that which is identical to the cell membrane and its coagulation factor.
imitates the damaged wall of
the blood vessel. The coating is a STRUCTURE OF THE BLOOG COAGULATION ACTIVATOR IN THE BODY
synthetic analogue of a phospholipid cell
membrane with integrated thromboplastin protein Tissue factor,
integral membrane
molecules that initiates the blood clotting cascade. protein

This method makes it possible to evaluate the
various phases of coagulation and to diagnose the
state, whether excessive or insufficient, of blood Double-layer
phospholipid
clotting. Currently there is no other diagnostic membrane of the cell

method of blood coagulation similar to it. The
instrument can simultaneously analyze several
blood samples; a diagnostic cycle takes 30 minutes. STRUCTURE OF THE BLOOD COAGULATION
Highly precise diagnoses, moderate test price, ACTIVATOR IN THE TEST SYSTEM

and ease of use are expected to give this product
Tissue factor, integral
a dominant position in the Russian market for membrane protein
coagulation analyzers and allow its producer to
enter the world market.
Single
phospholipid layer

Covalently bound
hydrocarbons on
a substrate

www.hemacore.com Polystyrene
substrate

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Er:YAG laser-based instruments for contact-free blood Er

sampling
Project company Erbitech

• New Technology Engineering Center
325 million rubles
Products
• Laser perforator with glucometer Erby
Laser skin perforation procedure:
• Laser perforator Professional
• Certified by FDA and CE
• Laser crystals
• Painless, sterile procedure
• Low cost
• Laser crystal production 1/4 to 1/3 cost of
competitors’
Project stages
Market share
worldmide
0,9% • Medicine
Market share
Production
start up
Design
capacity
Russia Production locations
1,1%
Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai

2011 2013 2016
Laser crystals of erbium garnet are the key element
in a unique laser emitter that is the base for company
Erbitech‘s line of medical instruments. The units
perform laser perforation of the finger for blood
sampling without coming in contact with the skin.
The procedure is painless, absolutely sterile, and
lower in cost than traditional needle procedures.

As part of the project, Erbitech will begin
manufacturing , the Erby perforator, a laser blood
glucose testing system for personal use. This
instrument will have a built-in glucometer, allowing
the patient to monitor his blood sugar at home,
independently. The laser perforator extracts a
microdrop of capillary blood and performs express
analysis.

The project already markets the laser perforator
Professional, which is designed for medical clinics
and diagnostic laboratories.

www.erbitech.com

39

Functional animal proteins and nutritious special-
purpose food products
Project company Rosana
• Production of functional animal proteins for microbiology, nutrition, animal husbandry,
cosmetics and other industries

Areas of application 2,271 million rubles
• Food products including special diet, Competitive advantages
children’s and sports foods
• Balanced amino acid contents
• Animal husbandry
• Hypoallergenic
• Microbiology and biotechnology
• High solubility
• Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics

The project will build a production complex with
daily processing capacity of 80 tons of meat and 40 Belgorod Oblast
tons of keratin-containing substances. The plant will Creation of 126 new jobs
produce keratin and functional meat proteins. Using
micro-, ultra- and nano-filtration, it will also produce Project stages
functional nanocompositions containing low-
molecular peptide and amino acid fractions.
Functional keratin has a large amount of sulfur- initiation start up capacity
December June January
containing amino acids used in feed for animals,
pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and cosmetics.
The functional proteins have complete amino acid 2010 2012 2014
composition, including isoleucine, leucine, and
valine, which are essential to muscle formation.
The functional nanocompositions based on meat
proteins have hypoallergenic, immunomodulating,
and antioxidant properties, making them suitable for
special diet, children’s, sports, and enteral foods.

www.rsna.ru

40

Aggregate budgets
Mechanical engineering
area exceed

34.3
billion rubles
RUSNANO's
financing (equity

10.4
billion rubles
and metalwork

41

Porous nanostructured inorganic
nonmetallic coatings
Project company MANEL
• Process lines for applying porous, inorganic, and non-metallic nanostructured coatings to aluminum,
magnesium, titanium, and zirconium surfaces

• EleSy RUSNANO financing
• Tomsk State University
50 million rubles
Export
30% • Environmentally clean technological process
Project stages • Low energy consumption
Sales volume • Broad spectrum of functional applications
750
million rubles
annually
Project Production Design • Construction
initiation
June
start up
November
capacity
December • Automotive industry
• Machine building

2010 2015 Production locations
Tomsk

DEVICE FOR MICRO-ARC OXIDATION
Porous ceramic coating is formed on the surface of valve Processing lines for applying inorganic, non-
metals: Al, Mg, Ti, Ta, Nb, Zr, Be, or their alloys metallic ceramic coatings to metal surfaces
will be the main product of this project. The
technology was developed by a group led by
To the power source Professor Anatoly Mamaev, doctor of chemistry.
Micro-arc oxidation technology provides
Air supply for electrolyte bubbling resistance to wear (two to eight times greater
and mixing resistance), corrosion, and heat and improves the
Electrolyte bath decorative properties of aluminum, magnesium,
Water cooling titanium, and zirconium components. This
Electrolyte opens new uses for the metals and reduces
Nanostructured coating
production costs. The technology is safer for the
environment because it is less likely to explode
Processed part from valve metal or alloy
and produces no cyanide or nickel/chrome
Micro-arc discharges, chaotically
migrating on the processed surface waste.
This method of micro-arc oxidation was
Supply of chilled electrolyte
developed in Russia in the late 1980’s. Due
Electrolyte removal for cooling to high energy consumption, the cost of MAO
and filtration
coating was higher than traditional methods,
preventing its adoption. The research team for
the project overcame the major obstacle to MAO
by using advanced power sources, and that
made the method cost effective.

www.manel.ru

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Solid-cast instruments with multilayer
nanostructured coatings
Project company New Instrumental Solutions
• Full-cycle production of instruments with nanostructured PVD coating using
a deposition technology developed at Kurchatov Institute

• RUSNANO
• Gazprombank RUSNANO financing
• NPO Saturn 499.8 million rubles
Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast
• Highest quality tools
• Custom tool design and production
Researchers at the Kurchatov Institute developed
• Flexible pricing
the technology used in this project—application
• Fast shipment
of nanostructured coatings to metal-cutting
instruments. The coatings increase wear
resistance of the tools by 2.5 times, decreasing
the frequency of replacement and lowering • Jet engine building
overall tool costs. • Aviation and space industries
• Mechanical engineering for power and
Nanostructured coatings are applied using
transportation
vacuum deposition of plasma obtained from
• Shipbuilding
the evaporation of material from metallic or
metal-ceramic cathodes with deep alloying of
the coating layers assisted with an ion beam.
Project stages
Scientists at the new enterprise, established
with the participation of RUSNANO, apply the
nanocoatings using a Kremen unit. Design
capacity
That technical solution enhances the wear
resistance of the nanocoated tool, which Project Market share*
Sales volume

permits metalworking at higher velocities and initiation Production
start up 43% 1,950
October 15 million rubles
lengthens the service life of the tools. Better annually

technical characteristics of the nanocoated
tools—greater hardness and tensile strength— 2008 2010 2014 2015
significantly improve labor productivity and
reduce manufacturing costs. Compared with an * Share of nanocoated metal-cutting tools sold in Russia

uncoated tool, metal removal rises by 2.0 times
to 2.5 times; cutting speed and intervals between
COATING A METAL-CUTTING TOOL
sharpening are extended by 1.5 times to 2.0
Diagram of vacuum nanostructured coating using several plasma
times. sources with an assisting beam of high-energy metallic ions (IBAD,
ion beam assisted deposition technology)

Base material

Mixing zone
Layer of nanostructured
coating
Plasma stream
Plasma
generator

Plasma
stream
Plasma
Ion beam generator
www.zao-nir.com Ion gun

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Automated vacuum units and deposition
equipment
ESTO-Vacuum
• Production of automated vacuum units and deposition equipment
• Establishment of center for developing new deposition methods and servicing equipment

• RUSNANO
• Private co-investors RUSNANO financing
• Smolensky Bank 199 million rubles
Areas of application Competitive advantages
• Electronics, avionics, and micromechanical
• Product attributes equal to world’s best
systems
• Competitive pricing
• Engineering and toolmaking
• Online service
• Medicine
• Adapted software
• Optics
• Established servicing system,
including online service
Market • Ability to build complex solutions
• Manufacturers of microelectronics and • Automated production line
instruments
Zelenograd, administrative subdivision of Moscow
Project stages

Project Sales volume
initiation Center Design The project will produce ESTO-Vacuum’s Caroline
March start up 30% capacity
series of modular and cluster automated vacuum
units for forming micro- and nanostructures.
The units are used extensively in production
2011 2012 2015 2016 of semiconductor and power devices,
micromechanical systems, quartz resonators,
semiconductor lasers, and LEDs based on gallium
SCHEMATIC DRAWING OF THE TECHNOLOGY CHAMBER OF THE nitride, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide.
CAROLINE D12A1, AN AUTOMATED UNIT FOR MAGNETRON,
THERMAL, AND ION BEAM DEPOSITION
ESTO-Vacuum units are manufactured using one
The unit can process ceramic, silicon, and zerodur flat substrates of
up to 100 mm in diameter technology platform. Each unit is equipped with
an integrated modem for transmission of data to
support services in the event of malfunctioning
and for online tuning.

The company also produces a line of vacuum units
for deposition of various modified coatings: anti-
corrosive, wear-resistant, strengthening, and other
coatings. As part of the project, the ESTO-Vacuum
plans to open a center where it will update existing
vacuum equipment, develop new equipment, and
develop new deposition methods by order.

www.esto-vacuum.ru

44

Electrochemical equipment for high-precision
processing of parts from metals and nanostructured
alloys
Project company ECM
• Serial production of state-of-the-art, environmentally clean, precision electrochemical machines
for manufacturing components from any metal or alloy
• Production of tools and details with high productivity and low operating costs

• RUSNANO
285 million rubles
• VC fund RVT-Invest RUSNANO financing
• TITAN ECM and Ufa State Aviation 120 million rubles
Technical University
• Low operating costs
Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan
• High-precision copying and nanometric
surfacing

• Аviation construction
• Energy
• Automotive industry
• Electronics industry
• Medicine
• Instrument manufacturing

Project stages

Project Market share*
initiation
April 7%

Production Design Export
start up
December
capacity 90%

2010 2012 2015
* global market for ECM and EDM (RAM and small-hole)

The electrochemical machines that this project and surgical instruments and to manufacture
have been designed for nanometer-precision complex parts from high-strength materials for
processing of virtually the entire spectrum of aircraft engines and power turbines.
metals, including hard alloys and nanostructured
Production machines of this class have almost
metals. The technology used in the machines
no presence in Russia today. Indeed, in 2008 they
is comparable to that of the world’s leading
were less than 0.1 percent of the world market in
manufacturers and in some parameters—
the precision machinery industry.
performance and cost of operation—superior. In
addition, software that Russian engineers have The project will employ cutting-edge
developed expands significantly the units’ surface developments from Russia’s electrochemistry
machining capabilities. The units are extremely institutes and put modern surface machining
versatile: they can be used to produce implants technology to work in high-tech industries:
microelectronics, precision instruments,
aerospace, energy, medicine, automotive, and
www.indec-ecm.com other industries.

45

Abrasion-resistant parts from nanostructured
ceramic and metal-ceramic materials
Project company VIRIAL
• Goods and parts with unique characteristics (high durability, resistance to cracking, corrosion, and heat):
friction bearing and end seal rings, rotary cutting tools, interchangeable multifaceted blades

• RUSNANO
• VIRIAL RUSNANO financing
• Siberian Organics up to 551.5 million rubles
• Capman investment fund

Project stages • Longer useful life of machinery and equipment
Export
• Less material and energy required to produce
20% goods
Sales volume
Project
initiation
Production Design
capacity 3,417 Areas of application
start up
Q4 Q3 Q2 million rubles
annually • Oil, chemical, atomic, cable, mining, pulp
and paper industries
2009 2010 2013 2015 • Metalworking and woodworking
industries

St. Peterburg

This project will establish full-cycle production of
nanostructured ceramics and metal-ceramics for
tribotechnical assemblages operating under
difficult conditions, including pumping
outfits. These units are subject to high
friction and abrasive wear.
Nanostructured materials offer
important advantages over metals
and polymers: greater wear resistance,
broader temperature range for
operation, and chemical inertness.
The use of nanostructured materials
increases reliability and service life of
industrial pumping outfits by 20 percent to
30 percent.
The project company will also produce ceramic
and metal-ceramic cutting tools to process very
hard, durable, and thermostable metal and metal-
ceramic composite materials. The use of this
machinery will expand the productivity of the
processing equipment and raise the precision of
operations.

www.virial.ru

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Network of production centers offering inorganic
non-metallic ceramic coatings
Project company Plackart
• Network of innovative service centers applying nanostructured coatings (thermal barrier, wear resistant,
corrosion resistant, electro-insulating, and superconducting)
• Engineering center for creating nanostructured protective coatings, developing technology,
and manufacturing equipment for coating application

• RUSNANO
• TSPC RUSNANO financing
• Rosatom 1,220 million rubles
• ODK
This project will introduce advanced, import-
replacing, energy- and resource-saving technology • Better quality characteristics (durability, wear
for applying functional coatings in a wide range of resistance, adhesive properties)
industries. In Russia penetration of this technology • Competitive price
lags far behind that of other developed countries. • Safe for the environment
Industrial consumers will be offered services and
complete solutions for applying multifunctional Areas of application
nanostructured coatings: thermal-barrier, wear-
• Mechanical engineering
resistant, and corrosion-resistant coatings. The
• Oil and gas industry
products are designed to protect drilling platforms,
• Energy
bridges, steel structures, and associated apparatuses
• Metallurgy
from corrosion and safeguard stop valves and
• Aviation industry
tubing fittings, drilling, oil, and gas production and
processing equipment from wear and tear.
Nanocoatings of various functionalities will increase
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Surgut, Perm,
significantly the performance, capacity, and service
Tyumen, Ufa, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod,
life of equipment.
Almetyevsk , Republic of Tatarstan
The project will employ physical vapor deposition Creation of 300-500 new jobs
and ion-plasma magnetron sputtering, currently
among the most popular and promising Project stages
technologies in the world. The new technology
for applying nanostructured coatings will replace Project Exports
initiation
obsolete and environmentally harmful ones, September 10%–15%
particularly, galvanic technology. By combining
technologies, scientists expect to develop coatings Production Design
Sales volume

with entirely new properties. start up capacity 6,565
June January million rubles
annually
One example of the use of protective coatings is
applying them to gas turbine engines.
2010 2012 2015

www.plackart.com

47

Ultrastrength homogeneous nanostructured springs
Project company NPC Springs

• RUSNANO
• Izhmash RUSNANO financing
• BANK URALSIB 830 million rubles
Project stages
Exports • Significantly higher resistance to relaxation and
up to 35% longer service life without increasing raw
materials costs
Economic
Sales volume
impact • 30 percent to 40 percent increase of allowable
initiation start up capacity 2,300 4,000 working tensions
December Q4 Q1 million rubles million rubles
annually annually

2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 • Rail transport
• Automotive industry
At the base of new technology for production of • Elevator manufacturing
ultrastrength springs lies a process of hot winding • Power industry
that combines the optimal level of heating, degree • Agricultural and road machinery manufacturing
of deformation during winding, and cooling-heating
regime following each turn of the spring. As a result Market share in 2013
of these operations, nanosized substructures form,
• Railroad springs, CIS countries: 10%
providing the products with ultrastrength properties.
• Railroad springs, Europe: 2%
The technology makes it possible to produce springs • Automobile springs, CIS countries: 7%
whose service life is several times longer, whose
stress limit is at least doubled, whose capacity at low Production locations
temperatures is greater, and whose compression and
Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia
coil impingement are eliminated.
Use of the new springs for railway transport, for
example, will reduce substantially the cost of repairs
and maintenance for rolling stock and increase
the volume of cargo transported by
increasing the load on the car ULTRASTRENGTH SPRINGS: PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
axle. By some estimates, the Hot winding used to manufacture springs for railway rolling stock,
agricultural machinery, and other equipment
gain from equipping the
entire fleet of rolling
stock, one million cars,
with new springs in
Russia would equal Removing top, Obtaining Achieving Heating wire Winding
four billion rubles. carbon-free specified necessary prior to main spring
layer wire diameter properties by operation (spring body
from the wire thermal or formation and
other rough
processing end-finishing)

Final
treatment
» Sand blasting
» Electropolishing
» Painting
» Anti-corrosion
Mechanical Thermal External Internal treatment
end finishing processing reinforcement hardening
with cold
www.npc-springs.ru hardening

48

Cutting tools from cubic boron nitride nanopowder
Project company Microbor Nanotech
• New generation of composite materials made of cubic and nanocubic boron nitride and instruments
of these composites

• RUSNANO
904 million rubles
• Microbor Holding RUSNANO financing
661 million rubles
Vladimir
• Higher durability and resistance to abrasion
Economic • Order of magnitude greater productivity from
Project stages benefits
instruments of cubic boron nitride
271
million rubles
annually
Area of application
Sales volume
Project Project
initiation initiation
Design
capacity
1,370
million rubles
• Metalwork
CBN Nano CBN
annually

Cutting tools made of superhard cubic boron nitride
2005 2010 2012 2015 nanopowder, second only to diamonds in hardness,
will be used for rough, final, and extra-final finishes,
primarily in mechanical and automotive engineering,
mining, and the aerospace industry.
The improved physical properties of tools made with
CBN nanopowder (microhardness, wear, and heat
resistance) yield much better performance while
reducing their cost of operation by as much as 60
percent.
The project has set up the complete production
cycle from synthesis of CBN nanopowder to
manufacturing of the cutting tools.

www.microbor.com

49

Precision pipes of stainless steel and alloys
Project company TMK-INOX
• Production of nano-enabled stainless steel and alloy precision pipes

• RUSNANO
• TMK RUSNANO financing
• Oil production Competitive advantages
• Energy
• Highly wear resistant
• Engineering
• Impervious to harsh environments
• Aircraft
• Durable
• Ductile
Market • Resistant to corrosion
• Businesses in the nuclear, heat and power, oil • Lower price due to 30 percent greater
and gas, engineering, and chemicals industries productivity than standard technological
processes

Project stages Production locations
Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Project
initiation
Creation of 400 or more new jobs
January

The project will produce precision pipe of stainless
Market share steel and alloys in which the structure of the
Production Design
start up capacity 25%- steel and mixed metals has been modified at the
January January
30% nanolevel to enhance the products with resistance
to wear, imperviousness to harsh environments, and
2011 2014 2015 other characteristics that extend their useful lives
and make them more suitable to their work.
By precisely managing deformation and
temperature parameters during processing, a crystal
lattice of metal nanostructures can be formed,
giving the products enhanced properties: plasticity,
corrosion resistance, geometric parameters, and
improved surfaces. Improvements to precision pipes
will be accomplished while production costs are
reduced.

50

Aggregate budgets
area exceed

and nanoelectronics 98.2
billion rubles
RUSNANO's
financing (equity

34.3
Optoelectronics

billion rubles

51

Arsenide gallium wafers, chips, photodetectors,
and optical components with VCSELs
Project company Connector Optics
• Production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and photodetectors in the 850-nm range: epitaxial wafers,
chips, packaged components
• Production of ultrahigh-speed (to 40 Gbit/s), energy-efficient optical components for data communications,
computer, and consumer markets

• RUSNANO
• VI Systems GmbH (Germany) RUSNANO financing
• Unique experience and know-how in design,
epitaxial growth, and processing of VCSELs
• Data transfer rate per channel is four times
faster compared with competing modules
Photodetector Eye diagram VCSEL • Low power consumption
chip 25 Gbit/s array
• High termal stability
Manufacturing of this product is based on
advanced technology for growing semiconductor Project stages
heterostructures with molecular beam epitaxy,
which ensures ultralow internal optical loss in the Project Production Export
Design
initiation start up
produced epitaxial wafers. November May
capacity 90%

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, photodiodes,
and related optical components are used in high- 2009 2011 2014 2015
speed data transmission devices for local networks,
active optical cables, supercomputers, and devices Markets
based on promising standards USB 3.0 and 4.0.
• Optical components, modules,
transceivers, interconnects
This project is well-timed: demand for faster
• Systems integrators
information transmission is growing worldwide.
• Computers

St. Petersburg

VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER
The structure of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser is based on
nano- and picotechnologies. Microchips are used in optical devices
of high-speed data transmission for local area networks, active optical
cables, supercomputers, communications lines of USB 3.0 and 4.0
advanced standards.

Laser impulse 850 nm
Metal contact

p Bragg mirror
p GaAs
Oxide opening
Quantum well
Oxide opening
Metal contact
n GaAs
n multi-layer (GaAs/AlAs)
Bragg mirror
www.connector-optics.com n GaAs substrate

52

Manufacturing of VLSI circuits with 90-nm
process technology
Project company SITRONICS-Nano
• Microchips produced using 90-nm technology

• Ameks
• NIIME & Mikron
RUSNANO financing
• Sitronics 8,280 million rubles
• Joint-Stock Financial Corporation Sistema
Project stages Tax payments
• First production at this level in Russia
2,300 • Proprietary microcircuit design
million rubles
annually and development center
Sales volume
Project
initiation
Production
start up
Design 12,000 Areas of application
capacity million rubles
January December July annually
• Navigation systems
• Consumer electronics
2010 2011 2012 2015
Production location
Zelenograd, an administrative subdivision
of Moscow

A plant to produce 90-nanometer integrated
circuits is under construction in the city of
Zelenograd, an administrative subdivision of
Moscow, on the industrial site of NIIME & Mikron.
The plant will produce chips for GLONASS/GPS
navigation systems, and industrial electronics.
It will also make chips with extended
functionality for biometric passports and
other personal documents, bank and social
security cards, SIM cards, and RFIDs.
The new integrated circuits will have higher
performance, larger memory, lower power
consumption, and more effective protection.
The project will manufacture products with a
license from one of the world’s leading producers
of semiconductor devices—STMicroelectronics.
The license will permit the company to use
STMicroelectronics’s technology to manufacture
90-nanometer integrated circuits. In the future,
the new company plans to establish a design
center where it can develop proprietary chips.

53

Radio frequency identification tags and metalized
packaging materials
Project company Galileo Nanotech

• RUSNANO
• Galileo Vacuum Systems spa (Italy) RUSNANO financing
Products
923.3 million rubles
• Radio frequency identification tags
• Metalized packaging materials
• Equipment for metallization • Ability to regulate thickness of metal layer
• Optimal use of materials
Project stages
Exports • Competitive price
up to 80%
RFID technology uses radio frequency
Sales volume
Project Production electromagnetic emissions to read and write
initiation start up
Design 5,138
Q2 Q3
capacity million rubles
annually
information on a small device, a RFID tag.
RFID tags are used to identify and register
objects (e.g., goods in warehouses and retail
2009 2011 2013 2015 chains), to protect against counterfeit products,
to automate accounting and control (e.g.,
postal services, logistics, accounting of fixed
assets), in maps, and for various documents of
Khotkovo, Moscow Oblast identification.
A RFID reader does not need to see the tag
to obtain data; tags can be read quickly even
through packaging material. The unique quality
of the technology in this project is its ability to
read several semi-active tags simultaneously
within a radius of several hundred meters.
During production, each tag is assigned an
exclusive and unchangeable identification
number for high level of protection against
counterfeiting. Data on the tag may be
encrypted.
The project uses vacuum metallization of film
and paper coatings, an innovative technology
from Galileo Vacuum Systems spa. It facilitates
selective metallization of any flexible surface
according to a given pattern. The technology has
high output and low production costs.

www.galileonano.ru

54

Miniature sensors for detecting explosive gases
Project company Optosense

• RUSNANO
346.8 million rubles*
• ICO * with production expansion, 571.5 million rubles

• REKS RUSNANO financing
• EMI 209 million rubles**
Project stages ** with production expansion, 359 million rubles

Project
initiation
Q2
• Low power consumption
Sales volume • Rapid reaction rate
Design
First sales
Q3 capacity 577.7* • Wide temperature range
million rubles
Q4
annually • Long-term durability
• Measurements are independent of humidity
and O2 concentration variations
2010 2013 2015
* with production expansion, 1,618.6 million rubles
• Fixed detectors
This project will use semiconductor
• Portable detectors
polycrystalline nanosized layers in mass
production of radiation sources and
photovoltaic receivers—key elements in
sensors. St. Petersburg
The infrared optical sensor developed under
the project has a high reaction rate (beginning
at 5.5 seconds), while competing products
react more slowly (in 10 seconds or more).
The device is more durable than other sensors
(seven-year service life compared with an
average five-year service life for sensors
produced by competitors). Moreover, this
sensor can work in high humidity and without
oxygen. It is non-toxic and consumes little
energy (7 mW compared with more than the
200 mW average consumption for competing
sensors). All of these advantages make this
infrared optical sensor a promising product for
Russian and world markets.
Production of the new sensors will eliminate
a number of problems: inability of sensors to
work where humidity high, slow performance,
interrupted operation of devices due to
periodic battery discharge caused by high
consumption of energy.

www.optosense.com

55

Nano-ink and equipment for high-tech digital
printing
Project Company SUN-NSK
• Modernization and expansion of nano-ink production for high-technology digital ink-jet printing
• Production of printers using UV-LED ink curing technology

• RUSNANO
• Business founder RUSNANO financing
• Advertising and design
• Printing • Nano-ink: better stability on any material
• Souvenirs • Ink-jet printing: greater durability
• Architecture • UV-LED printers: safer to operate,
• Construction more durable, consume less power
• Interior design and decoration
• Furniture making Production locations
Berdsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
Project stages
Project Design
initiation capacity Novosibirsk company SUN has developed
an innovative digital UV printing system that
surpasses others in use across the globe
2010 2011 today. The system owes its advantages largely
to nanotechnology applications: the use of
nanosized pigments and additives to the nanoink
and ultrabright UV LEDs based on gallium nitride
heterostructures in the printers.
Printers produced with this technology can apply
images not only to advertising and printing
products, as traditional printers can, but also to
furniture, tile, glass, appliances and electronics,
stretch ceilings, panels, and other surfaces. SUN
printers combine high productivity with low
operational costs, which significantly reduces the
cost of the printed product. SUN nano-ink offers
a broad range of color, high resistance to light,
exact color reproduction, and long shelf life—
important for UV curable ink.

www.sun-nsk.ru

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Detectors based on labeled neutrons for identifying
explosives and narcotics
Project company Neutron Technologies LLC
• Production of multi-purpose detectors based on tagged neutron technology and used to identify explosives
and narcotic substances

Project participants
Total budget
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• Explosives and Narcotics Detectors LLC RUSNANO financing
155 million rubles
Project stages
Sales
• Identification of more than 30 explosives
Project initiation Production
star up
Design capacity volume • Automated identification, without human
September
September
May 1,000 intervention
million rubles
• Probability of identification approximately 98%
2010 2011 2012 2015 Areas of application
• Stationary luggage inspection systems
• Vehicle inspection systems
• Portable detectors
Dubna, Moscow Oblast • Cargo container inspection systems

Tagged neutron detectors differ from
conventional x-ray detectors in that they
identify hidden substances by their elemental
composition, not by their density. Airport x-ray
machines can find a bottle in a suitcase easily, but
they cannot distinguish liquid explosives from
water in the bottle. The Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research in Dubna has devised a new detector of
explosives and narcotic substances that resolves
this problem.
The detector identifies the composition of
substances through the spectrum of gamma rays
that are emitted when neutrons hit the surface
of the substance. These spectra are unique for
each chemical element. The birth of a neutron in
the generator is accompanied by the appearance
of “tags,” alpha particles that fly away from the
neutron to the alpha-detector. The selection
of coincident signals with alpha- and gamma-
ray detectors suppresses up to 200 times the
signals from background processes. This changes
dramatically the conditions for registering
the spectrum of gamma rays from unknown
substances, making their identification faster and
more reliable.
During production of semiconductor alpha
detectors, the project company will use
technology for obtaining high-alloyed nanolayers
of less than 100-nanometer thickness.

ntech.jinr.ru

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High thermal conductivity LED substrates
Project company MCLR
• Production of single- and multi-layer substrates for LED assembly and electronic devices using
proprietary technology for obtaining a nanoporous layer of Al2O3 on the aluminum wafer through
anodization

• RUSNANO
868 million rubles
• Micro Components Ltd. (Israel) RUSNANO financing
• Venture capital fund managed 120 million rubles
by Innovative Solutions
Areas of application Competitive advantages
• LED lighting systems • High thermal conductivity
• Electronic devices requiring high heat disposal • High breakdown voltage
• Good thermomechanical properties
Market • Competitive price
• Producers of LED lighting
• Producers of electronics Project Global
stages market share

Production locations 1.6%
Vladimir Project Production Design
Creation of 100 new jobs initiation start up capacity
December May March

The project uses proprietary technology 2010 2012 2015
from Israeli company Micro Components
Ltd. Substrates produced with MCL’s ALOX™
technology are composed of two parts, a
conducting layer of aluminum and/or copper and
a layer of dielectric material. It is the dielectric
material, with its nanoporous structure, that
gives the substrates competitive advantage over
traditional counterparts. Pores measuring 65 nm
to 90 nm that have been suffused with special
nanofillers achieve thermal conductivity of up to
200 W/m*K, dielectric breakdown voltage of more
than five kV, good thermomechanical properties,
and comparatively low product prices.

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Next generation high-power laser sources
• Production of a new type of diode laser

• RUSNANO
2,150 billion rubles
• General Nano Optics RUSNANO financing
• Private co-investor 765 million rubles
• Materials processing
• Solid-state and fiber laser pumping • Greater capacity
• Telecommunications (amplifiers • More powerful coherent radiation
and transmitters) • Higher performance ratio
• Medicine • No increase in cost to manufacture lasers

Market This project will manufacture powerful, highly
effective diode lasers and laser amplifiers with
• Manufacturers of special-purpose
leaking emission into the optical resonator.
equipment employing diode lasers: optical
telecommunications, laser printing, medical
instruments, and equipment for materials
processing

Project stages Market share
2.6%

Project Production Design Sales volume
initiation
September
start up
December
capacity
December
$7.0
billion

2011 2012 2015
Moscow Oblast

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Plastic electronics: displays and other devices
Project company Plastic Logic (Russia)
• Production of flexible plastic displays and related devices using unique plastic electronics technology

• RUSNANO
33,170 million
• OAK Investment Partners (USA) RUSNANO financing
• E-book readers and internet pads
Market • Thinness and low weight
• Durability
• Producers of consumer electronics
• Flexibility
Production locations Plastic Logic has developed a method for making
Zelenograd, an administrative subdivision structured semiconductors, conductors, and
of Moscow dielectrics from polymers that can be used to
Creation of 300 new jobs obtain large integrated circuits with an active
high-resolution matrix on flexible substrates.
The technology facilitates production of displays
Project stages that are thinner, lighter, and more durable than
displays on glass substrates. These advances are
Project Market share Production Market share Design
start up significant for consumers.
initiation
January 0.37% December 6.5% capacity
December
Plastic Logic unites its flexible integrated circuits
with light-reflecting e-paper on the front panel.
2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 Along with being flexible, the material is capable
of retaining information after the power source is
shut down.
The project will focus on manufacturing the
Plastic Logic eReader—a lightweight, low
cost, durable, and flexible device—and related
accessories. The key advantage is its flexible
plastic display. Unlike the LED glass displays used
in other e-readers, it is rugged and glare free. The
Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issue in
manufacturing high-resolution transistor arrays
on flexible plastic substrates by using a low
temperature process without mask alignment.
The technology developed by Plastic Logic
simplifies the conventional amorphous
silicon processes, by using an eclectic
mix of standard production equipment
from display manufacturing and other
industries.

www.plasticlogic.com

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Creation of fiber laser industry in Russia
Project company IRE-Polus
• Production of high-power fiber lasers and advanced optical telecom equipment

• RUSNANO
5,512 million
• IPG Photonics Corporation (USA) RUSNANO financing
1,550 million
• Materials processing: cutting, welding,
surfacing, microfininshing, and etching
• Telecommunications • High power
• Medicine • Compactness
• Commercial printing • Low cost of ownership
• Performance coefficient to 30%
Market
With IRE-Polus, 20 years ago, begins the
• Shipbuilding
history of IPG Photonics Corporation in Oxford,
• Automobile building
Massachusetts. Its story is unique in the history
• Aviation and space
of Russian high tech—the creation of a scientific
• Railway equipment
and manufacturing corporation of global
• Mechanical engineering
magnitude, established by Russian physicist and
fiber laser pioneer Valentin Gapontsev.
Over the past five years, IPG Photonics has
Fryazino, Moscow Oblast
become the world leader in fiber lasers, related
Creation of 1,000 or more new jobs
instruments, and systems derived from the lasers.
Today the corporation holds 75 percent of the
Project stages global fiber laser market. IRE-Polus, the starting
point, is one of three manufacturing bases for the
Production Project Design US-based company; the others are in Germany
start up initiation capacity
May November October and the United States. IPG Photonics is traded on
the NASDAQ.

1991 2010 2011

www.ntoire-polus.ru

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Model store with nano-enabled retail RFID solutions
• Development of improved RFID technology and devices to lower logistics costs in retail industry
• Establishment of a system integrator for retail RFID solutions
• Implementation of RFID technology at all stores within a large retail food chain, the X5 Retail Group

• RUSNANO
350 million rubles
• SITRONICS RUSNANO financing
• X5 Retail Group 117 million rubles
Market
• Retail operators Competitive advantages
• Vendors of goods for the consumer market
• Increases employee productivity
• Raises accuracy of inventorying to virtually
Social impact by 2015 100%
• Reduce counterfeit goods • Raises sales through constant restocking and
• Reduce theft targeted marketing activities
• Shorten wait times to process checkouts
RFID, radio frequency identification, tags are
Production locations used in retail trade and logistics, for example, by
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever.
Moscow
RFID-based solutions could fully replace barcode
as they offer such advantages as recording of
more information, longer service life, and ability
to rewrite. RFID is an improved mechanism
Project stages for monitoring production, transportation,
and realization of goods requiring particular
Project Production Design capacity
oversight: medication, alcohol products, and
initiation start up
Q3 tobacco. Project participants will create a model
store using RFID-based solutions that can be
replicated throughout the industry.
2011 2012 2015
Purchases of RFID equipment will increase
demand for microelectronics products (chips,
screens, printed circuits, and antennas) and
services of R&D centers.

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Amorphous carbon-coated and photonic crystal optical fiber
Project company Optikovolokonnye Sistemy (Fiberoptics Systems)
• Production of advanced nanostructured optical fiber

• RUSNANO
• Gazprombank RUSNANO financing
• Republic of Mordovia 1,295 million rubles
• Telecommunications Competitive advantages
• Fiber lasers industry
• Resistant to hydrogen
• Long service life
Production locations • Tolerance to bending
Saransk, Republic of Mordovia • Unique dispersal properties in the
nanostructured fiber

The project will produce photonic crystal fiber
and introduce technology for applying protective
Project stages nanocoatings of amorphous carbon to standard
optical fiber. The new coating improves the
Production fiber’s mechanical properties, the extent to
Project initiation start up Design capacity
which it can be bent, and its service life. These
are particularly advantageous features for optical
fiber used in local and in-vehicle networks. The
2011 2013 2015 hydrogen resistance provides greater stability for
fiber use underwater and also at chemical and oil
and gas facilities.
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER WITH QUARTZ-GLASS CORE
Photonic crystal fiber is used in the newest
fiber lasers and amplifiers, fiber endoscopes
and sensors, and laser scalpels in the medical,
semiconductor, and telecommunications
industries.
The project company will produce five kinds of
optical fiber for different applications.

BEND TOLERANT OPTICAL FIBER

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Nanofiber sensors: fiber optic metering systems
for power grids
Project company Profotech
• Production of nanostructured fiber-based optic current and voltage measurement and monitoring sensors

• RUSNANO
• FOT Capital Limited RUSNANO financing
• ONEXIM Group 604 million rubles
• Power grids and power generation
• Power consumption metering • Virtually service free
• Power grid protection • Safe from fire and explosion
• SmartGrids and other intellectual energy • Eliminate service disruptions
systems

Market Project stages
• Power generation Project Production Design Market share
• Energy-intensive industrial sectors initiation start up capacity 15%
Podolsk, Moscow Oblast
2010 2012 2014 2015
The project will establish commercial production
in Russia of power consumption meters and
protective systems for power grids. The fiber
COLUMN OF THE CURRENT TRANSFORMER
optic current and voltage sensor systems are
based on nanofibers. They provide the power
industry, transportation, metallurgy, mining, and
other industrial sectors with innovative solutions
and replace imports with domestic products
that satisfy higher consumer requirements. Fiber
optic sensors pave the way for intelligent power
systems, like SmartGrid, ensuring the exactitude
of measurement required in that type of line. The
sensors make it possible to control and manage
electric power networks in real time.
Optical nanofiber can achieve specific
measurement sensitivities and resistance in
harsh environments. Technical characteristics are
obtained due to the presence of 50-nanometer
to 80-nanometer quartz elements in the fiber.

www.profotech.ru

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Thermoelectric microcoolers from bismuth telluride
nanopowder
Project company RMT Ltd
• Production of thermoelectric microcoolers from bismuth telluride nanopowder for optic-,
micro-, and nanoelectronics

• RUSNANO
797 million rubles
• ZAO RMT RUSNANO financing
• S-Group Ventures 150 million rubles
• Opto-, micro-, and nanoelectronics Competitive advantages
• Laser equipment
• High quality
• Laboratory instrument making
• Biomedicine
• Competitive pricing
• Rapid filling of customized orders
Market • Engineering support for customers
• Manufacturers of electronics • Distribution networks in Europe and Asia

Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod Project stages Market share
Creation of 320 new jobs 9%

Production Project Market share Design
start up initiation capacity
October September 5% July

1994 2010 2011 2015

The project will produce Peltier thermoelectric
modules cooling a range of equipment and
devices: semiconductor and other types of
lasers, power LEDs, photo detectors, ICs and
microprocessors, and biomedical instruments.
Integrated micromodules provide the most
efficient cooling; the closer the cooling element
is to the heat source, the more effectively the
unit works.

www.rmtltd.ru

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Ultra high-frequency RFID chips
Project company RST-Invent
• Develop UHF RFID-chips with improved sensitivity and reliability of readout
• Production of domestic RFID tag packs and RFID inlay/adhesive labels for passive RFID systems

• RUSNANO
630 million rubles
• Systematica Group RUSNANO financing
190 million rubles
• Retail stores
• Warehouses
• Libraries • Proprietary scientific advances
• Vehicular security/border control • Uses promising bandwidth
• Construction industry • Domestic source for components

Production locations The project company will manufacture advanced
RFID chips using 90-nanometer technology
St. Petersburg
that satisfies the EPC Class-1 Generation-2
protocol. The technology being applied to radio
frequency identification reduces the size, energy
consumption, and cost of the chips.
Project stages
The chips will be used to develop new tags
as well as to update existing RFID tags, like
Market share Market share Market share Market share
the PatchTag™, a market leader in distance of
26% 32% 39% 45% registration for passive universal tags. The project
company will create other tag forms specifically
Project Design for the new chip. Thanks to antennas with greater
initiation capacity
January amplification gain and the 90-nanometer process
technology, the iNano family of adhesive tags
will feature greater read and write distances.
2011 2012 2013 2015

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Thermoelectric cooling and generating systems
and related products
THERMOINTECH
• Production of thermoelectric units for cooling and generating electricity based on non-ceramic
technology CERATOM

• RUSNANO
• RIO Group RUSNANO financing
• Bauman Moscow State Technical University 600 million rubles
• Solid-state and diode lasers
• Telecommunications • Wide range of configuration and size of
• Merchandising thermoelectric modules
• Power generation • High performance
• Fully automated production cycle from nano-
Market enabled intermediates to end products
• Low price
• Producers of solid-state and diode lasers
requiring cooling
• Producers of telecommunications
• Oil and gas companies
Project stages

Production locations Market share
0.5%
Zelenograd (production), Moscow (assembly),
Project Production Market share Market share Design capacity
initiation start up
January July 2% 5.4% January

THERMOELECTRIC SYSTEMS FOR COOLING AND POWER GENERATION
2011 2012 2013 2015 2016
Layout of the CERATOM® (TERMIONA) Comparison of Peltier elements: generic
cooling module based on a next technology and CERATOM® technology
generation Peltier element Thermoelectricity is a promising alternative
Advantages of the CERATOM® technology:
energy source. It is one of the lowest in cost and
·thermal resistance of layers 100 times lower
most reliable. CERATOM’s thermoelectric system
·cost of layers 100 times less
·thermal contact with the heat sink ideal generates electricity at $.07/W, comparable to
·thermal and mechanical endurance high thermal and nuclear energy and considerably
·full automation of production
less costly than other alternative energy sources.
Heat sink
Thermoelectricity is used in active cooling,
CERATOM’s temperature control and electric power
Peltier element
Object generation under conditions that are not
being cooled amenable to traditional methods, such as
in compressor or absorption refrigerators.
Generic technology CERATOM®
Modified
Thermoelectric modules are used in equipment
Thermal paste
nanoporous layer for transportation and space, lasers, electronics,
Ceramic layer (pore size
Copper 26 nm–60 nm) and telecommunications, and in household
Solder Copper appliances.
Copper Solder
Solder Layer groups Nanoporous layers
Barrier layer have same (5-10 nm)
functions p-n branch
p-n branches

www.termiona.ru

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Aggregate budgets
area exceed

85.3
Infrastructure projects
billion rubles
RUSNANO's
financing (equity

54.2
billion rubles

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Russian warehouse and catalog of chemical
and biochemical reagents
Project company Ruschembio
• Storage and supply of ultrapure chemical and biochemical reagents, test systems, and consumables
• Substitution of imported reagents with Russian equivalents

• RUSNANO
90 million rubles
• Company founder RUSNANO financing
Project stages
43 million rubles
Sales volume
Project
initiation
Design
capacity
540 Project stages
August million rubles
annually
• During the first stage (2009–2011), the project
company creates essential infrastructure—
2009 2011 2015 specialized licensed warehouses, a customs
clearance system, transport logistics (rail, sea, road,
Today Russia lacks the infrastructure for full-
and air), a database with on-line ordering function,
range services for the ultrapure chemical and
an electronic system for accounting and control of
biochemical reagents that Russian manufacturers
reagents. This infrastructure ensures order delivery
and research organizations require to conduct
within 24 hours in Moscow Oblast and within 48
their work. Its absence hinders innovative
hours to 72 hours across Russia. At this stage, there
developments and the appearance and growth of
is 10,000 to 15,000 reagents.
biomedical companies.
• During the second stage (2011–2012), the
assortment of reagents will be increased to 20,000.
Competitive advantages The project company will start creating its own
• Wide assortment of reagents packaging lines and a quality control system.
• Advanced online systems for ordering and Russian manufacturers of ultrapure reagents, who
controlling products in the warehouse currently largely supply foreign customers and
• Rapid delivery of reagents throughout the Russian whose considerable potential is undertapped,
Federation could become involved at this stage.
• Laboratories fully outfitted with sophisticated • During the third stage (2013–2015), the assortment
equipment of reagents will be brought to 25,000. The first
Russian catalog of ultrapure chemical and
Market biochemical reagents will be established.
• Companies and organizations working
in high-technology spheres Production locations
• Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the
Moscow
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the
Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Laboratories of the Ministry of Defense, the Federal
Security Service, and the Ministry of the Interior of
the Russian Federation
• Offices of standardization
and certification
• Quality control laboratories for the food
industry and veterinary services

www.ruschembio.ru

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Metrological and analytical equipment for materials
science, biology, and medicine
Project company Advanced Technologies Center
• Production of analytical instruments for research in materials sciences, biology, and medicine
• Production of high-precision sensors for analyses of chemical and biological substances
• Scientific studies to improve technical parameters of instruments and devices

• Advanced Technologies Center RUSNANO financing
Competitive advantages 140 million rubles
• Better technical characteristics with lower pricing Products
• Highly adjustable, multipurpose instruments
• Multifunctional scanning probe microscope
with broad capabilities
FemtoScan
• Atomic balances—extremely sensitive
analytical instruments for chemical and
Project stages biological substances
Project
initiation, Design
Sales volume • Software, FemtoScan Online, for processing
Production capacity 750 scanning probe microscope images
start up October million rubles
October annually

2010 2014 2015
This project will manufacture FemtoScan scanning
probe microscopes—precision instruments that use
the mechanical movement of a probe (cantilever)
to study the surface of an object. The precision of
these microscopes is around one nanometer. The
project company will also produce atomic scales
that can register the presence of particles of various
substances at the level of individual atoms. One
promising application for these scales is as quick-
response biosensors.
The project company plans to establish a R&D center
that will conduct research to perfect technology,
carry out engineering development, and test
prototypes and models. The center will supply
software to work in an instrument-managing mode
and in an image-processing mode.

www.nanoscopy.ru

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EuroTech Transfer Venture fund Peredovye
venture capital fund Nanotechnologii (Advanced
Management company
Nanotechnology)
Fleming Family & Partners Management company SM.art
• Investment in European technology companies • Invest in commercializing nanotech developments by financing
to facilitate their work in Russia promising innovative companies at the beginning stage of project
execution

Total budget Total budget
15,000 million rubles 2,000 million rubles
RUSNANO financing RUSNANO financing
7,500 million rubles 980 million rubles
Project participants Project participants
• RUSNANO • RUSNANO
• Fleming Family & Partners • SM.CAPITAL
• Unicredit Bank • SM.Holding
• SM.art
Investment criteria
• A developed technology, financial stability, Competitive advantages
history of product sales
• Partnerships with universities and R&D
• Agreement to equity dilution with legal duty to
organizations in the Siberian Federal Okrug,
invest in Russia
including Siberian Federal University,
• Willingness to establish production in Russia
Novosibirsk State University, Technopark
of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, businesses
Priority areas of the Tomsk Special Economic Zone
of nanotech-focused investments • Strategic partnership with SYGMA.innovations,
founder of multidisciplinary nanotech center
• Modern materials
Sygma (Tomsk and Novosibirsk), which
• Medical equipment
is the technical and technological base for
• Electronics, communications
developing portfolio projects of the fund
• Industrial equipment
• Energy efficiency
The fund will finance small and mid-sized
innovative companies, primarily in the Siberian
Competitive advantages Federal Okrug, that are planning or carrying
out projects in nanotechnology.
• Reduction of risk through investment in
companies with established technology
Priority areas of investment
• Management company with international
experience in high-tech investment and • Nanomodified materials
management of large projects in Russia • Nanoelectronics
• Access to an additional technological pipeline • Green technologies
in Europe via UniCredit • Pharmacology and biotechnology

Locations Locations
Europe and Russia Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Tomsk

www.ffam.ru www.smai-mc.ru

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Kama Fund First Nanomet: metallurgy sector
Management company Nanostart AG
venture fund
(Germany) Management company Savings and Investment
• Acceleration of innovative developments in • Commercialization of nanotechnology projects
Perm Krai through investment in small business in the metallurgy sector
projects with nanotech application

Total budget Total budget
2,000 million rubles 3,000 million rubles
RUSNANO financing RUSNANO financing
750 million rubles 1,500 million rubles
Project participants Project participants
• RUSNANO • RUSNANO
• Nanostart AG (Germany) • Savings and Investment
• Perm Krai government • Peresvet Bank

Perm Krai is one RUSNANO’s most active partners. Metallurgy is one of Russia’s strongest sectors in world markets.
A geographically advantageous location, well- Export of ferrous and non-ferrous metals is the country’s second
developed industry, and a high concentration of largest export. Significantly, nearly 46 percent of ferrous metals
engineering universities and institutes give the and 90 percent of non-ferrous metals are exported with little
region high potential for innovation. Kama Fund added value, that is, at lower technological processing stages.
First, created with support and participation of the For this reason, the metallurgy industry has few innovative
Administration of Perm Krai, finances promising instruments for improving efficiency of production.
nanotechnology projects in the region and markets
The Nanomet fund was established to find commercial
high-tech products from the krai to other regions of
potential and stimulate development and implementation
Russia and other countries.
of nanotechnology in the country’s metallurgy industry. It is
designed to spur the innovative energies of private capital and
Location stimulate growth in export of value-added metallurgy products.
Perm
• Sector focus with sector expertise at all levels of project
selection and management
• Synergies for portfolio companies working at different
stages of the metallurgy value chain
• More profitable exits from portfolio companies through
focused communications with specialized investors

Location
Moscow

www.sberinvest.ru

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Skolkovo-Nanotech closed-end venture fund
Project company Skolkovo-Nanotech Fund
• Venture investments in small nanotechnology projects
• Formation of innovative educational infrastructure in cooperation with the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Project participants Target capitalization of the fund
• RUSNANO
• Private co-investors RUSNANO financing
• Troika Dialog (management company) 1,000 million rubles
Competitive advantages Size of the fund at formation
• Expertise in finding cutting-edge technology 300 million rubles
• Scientific and educational expertise in assessing
projects for the fund Project objectives
• Obtain profits for fund stakeholders
Locations • Narrow the considerable gap between a business
Moscow idea and its implementation as an investment
project
• Engage students and teachers of the Moscow
Project stages Project School of Management SKOLKOVO, under the
initiation leadership of project managers and trainers, in
September
business planning and pre-investment preparation
for the most interesting projects submitted to the
Operations End of
start up operations fund
December December
• Consolidate educational and investment objectives
of the company
2009 2016
Topicality
• Focuses on realizing the commercial potential of
Russian nanotechnology, provides fund investors
with high return on investment, improves the
quality of education in innovation management,
and organizes practical training opportunities for
business school students
• Provides exclusive contract among investors,
business school, and managment company of the
fund, with private investors receiving a minimum
guaranteed return and Moscow School of
Management SKOLKOVO receiving the balance

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MBE and planar process equipment based
on SemiTEq technology
Project company Semiconductor Technologies and Equipment
• Production of high-vacuum equipment for molecular beam epitaxy, electron beam evaporation, plasma etching,
plasma-enhanced deposition, and rapid thermal annealing
• Development of customer-oriented technological processes
• Support for RUSNANO infrastructure projects
Total budget
619 million rubles
Project participants RUSNANO financing
• Private co-investors
• SemiTEq Competitive advantages
• Globally competitive equipment
Areas of application • Patented technical solutions
• Nanoelectronics • Well-established system of customer support
• Microelectronics • Twenty years of experience inventing
• Optoelectronics Market share
and modernizing thin film deposition
Molecular beam
epitaxy
Sales volume 70%– Production locations
Project stages >1,000 80% St. Petersburg
million Rubles
annually
Market share
Planar processing
equipment In molecular beam epitaxy technology, layers of
Project Exports
initiation Design capacity
~25% 30%– various semiconductor and dielectric materials
March
40% (e.g., silicon, sapphire, gallium arsenide) are
applied to the surface of a substrate with layer
2010 2013 2015 thickness of up to a single atom. The materials
are heated in the effusion chamber of the
epitaxy unit. A beam of evaporated molecules
MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY is directed onto the substrate where it settles
in a thin layer of predetermined structure.
Molecular beams The process is repeated so that step by step
Effusion
cells Substrate heater a multilayer structure is built of alternating
Electron gun Substrate materials with different properties, such as
rotation
mechanism different conductivity types or different band
gaps. The process of growth is carried out in an
ultrahigh vacuum because foreign molecules
can distort the structure that is being created.
Heterostructures—new materials with unusual
properties whose possiblity Academician Leonid
Keldysh predicted in the early 1960s—result.
Since molecular beam epitaxy makes it possible
To forevacuum pump
to obtain ultrathin layers of only a few atoms
thickness, quantum-mechanical effects appear
Valves Fluorescent
screen in the materials, changing their optical and
Cryopanels electrical properties. Molecular beam epitaxy
technology is one of the first technologies for
managing the structure of substances at the
nanoscale, creating materials with unusual and
useful properties. Molecular beam epitaxy opens
the way to electronics based on new principles:
ultrafast computers, solar cells with significantly
higher efficiency, new optical devices for
telecommunications, and other applications.

www.semiteq.ru

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Diagnostic instruments: label-free biodetectors
and bionanoslides
Project company BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc.
• Production of label-free biodetectors and, in Russia, production of disposable bionanoslides, both developed
by American company BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc.

• RUSNANO
$19 million
• Boulder Ventures Ltd. (USA) RUSNANO financing
• Peierls Foundation (USA) $4.5 million
• Private co-investors
• BioNanoPhysics Research and Education
Center of Moscow Institute of Physics
and Technology • Low acquisition and use costs
• Compactness
Areas of application • Simplicity of use
• Reliability
• Molecular diagnostics
Market
Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Scientific research institutes and universities
BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc., in collaboration with
2005 Nobel Prize laureate in physics John Hall, has
Project stages developed a unique technology for biodetection. The
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biodetectors developed by BiOptix provide extremely
initiation start up sensitive label-free biomolecule interaction analysis
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in real time. This kind of measurements is essential for
development of promising molecular candidates for
2011 2012 innovation drugs.
The BiOptix biodetector does not require florescent or
isotope labeling of biomolecules. This saves time and
reagents and, more importantly, facilitates study that
was previously unachievable.

www.bioptixinc.com

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