Four institutes in the company contour. Two joint sites with IPCE RAS — red-mud hydrometallurgy and photoelectric materials. Thin-film papers with DOI. The 2021 Mendeleev Communications paper is on Math-Net.
4 INSTITUTES · 2 SITES · 12 PAPERS
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SCIENCE PARTNERS
Each institute owns a segment of the chain — from feedstock composition to the device and the test.
IPCE RAS
ELECTROCHEMISTRY · THIN FILMS · SENSORS
The A.N. Frumkin Institute. Continuity since 1929, the Rehbinder and Deryagin schools. Chain “synthesis — film — device — characterization”. The Tameev group is the photoelectric core. Exclusive industrial partnership with Era Group on perovskites.
IGI RAS
COMPOSITION · GASIFICATION
Institute of Fossil Fuels. Chemical and mineralogical mapping of ash-slag by layer. Gasification of unburnt carbon — syngas as the site energy loop. Agreement — Q4 2025.
IPKON RAS
BENEFICIATION · REE
Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources. Gravity, flotation, chemical concentration of rare earths from technogenic feedstock. Agreement — Q4 2025.
NIIZHB (Gvozdev)
CONCRETE TESTING
Research Institute of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete. Head tests of high-strength expanded clay FORTIS and concretes based on it. Agreement — Q3 2026.
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JOINT SITES WITH IPCE RAS
Era Group is the industrial partner of IPCE RAS and the CRIRS National Center. Two joint sites are being created inside the institute: the premises are provided by the institute, the funding is joint — under Agreement No. 17/11/25-IP and the CRIRS National Center Program through 2030.
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RED-MUD HYDROMETALLURGY AND ALKALINE-PULP ELECTROCHEMISTRY
REE · ALKALINE PULPS · SENSORS
Selective recovery of Sc, Ga, Y, Zr and lanthanides from red mud of the aluminium industry. Electrochemistry and instrumental control of alkaline and carbonate pulps.
Electrolysis and electrodialysis of alkaline pulps
Cascade counter-current schemes with centrifugal extractors
Sensors and analytical control of alkaline pulp and alumina-plant effluents
Physicochemical modelling with AI
Engineering support of international projects
Consortium: IPCE RAS · INEOS RAS · Kola Science Centre RAS
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PHOTOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND THIN-FILM DEVICES
PEROVSKITES · TANDEMS · INTERFACES
Hybrid and perovskite materials, including wide-bandgap compositions for tandem architectures. Thin films and laboratory devices. Scientific lead — Dr. A. R. Tameev, Laboratory of Electronic and Photonic Processes in Polymer Materials, IPCE RAS.
Structural, optical and electrochemical characteristics of materials
Degradation kinetics and stability
Engineering of charge-transport layers and interfaces using rare-metal feedstock
Thin-film formation and laboratory devices
AI-assisted modelling
Era Group is the Russian signatory of the agreements with foreign universities and the photoelectric industry
The list reflects the program's public publications; full texts are available via DOI identifiers.
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SCHOOL AND CONTINUITY
IPCE RAS has institutional continuity dating to 1929. The Rehbinder and Deryagin schools laid the foundations of colloid chemistry and surface physics — the disciplines underlying today's work on thin films and interfaces of perovskite devices.
1929
THE REHBINDER AND DERYAGIN SCHOOLS
CHAIN: SYNTHESIS — FILM — DEVICE — CHARACTERIZATION