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The new issue of the 草榴短视频 Success Stories project will tell about perseverance, hard work, creativity in art and science, the similarity between the artist's work on the canvas and the scientist's work on the invention. Our heroine is Ekaterina Kudryavtseva, a graduate student and assistant at the Department of Chemical Technologies named after prof. A.A. Kharkharov, a young scientist, holder of a patent for the invention of a method for producing antibacterial tissues, which representatives of the medical and chemical industry, agriculture and tourism industry are interested in today. Ekaterina graduated from the Institute of Applied Chemistry and Ecology of 草榴短视频 in 2012, and then a few years later returned to her native university to enroll in a master's degree and start building a scientific career here. In addition to science, there is another passion in the life of a young scientist 鈥� music. How to combine working in a laboratory and playing the flute in an orchestra, what do nanoparticles and notes have in common, and why is it the right time to go into science? The answers are in our history.

Ekaterina Kudryavtseva has been interested in science since childhood. Little Katya's favorite cartoon characters have always been scientists.

"I dreamed of becoming either a scientist or an astronaut. I really wanted to touch something unusual - be it space or microcosm. I was still a little girl when the hadron collider was discovered, but I was already following the news about this particle accelerator. I was very interested in whether scientists would find the smallest particle."

Despite Katya's interest in atoms, her parents sent her to the gymnasium at the Russian Museum. Then she often drew, studied painting, admired Aivazovsky and Roerich, could tell about their work and even take a tour of the halls of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the Benois Building. But despite her deep immersion in the arts and humanities, our heroine retained her interest in the microcosm, and when it came time to decide on her future profession, she decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who also connected her life with chemistry.

Ekaterina took the choice of a higher educational institution seriously. The Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design interested the applicant in the fact that the university's priority is not only chemical technologies, but also creative specialties. The young woman studied in advance what kind of research university departments are engaged in, and chose a direction related to the technologies of dyeing and applying images to fabric. At the specialty, the student worked on the compositions of dyes to increase the effectiveness of their fixation on tissues together with Alla Alexandrovna Burinskaya (Professor of the Department of Chemical Technologies named after prof. A.A. Kharkharova 草榴短视频 鈥� ed.).

After graduating from the specialty, our heroine was going to continue her studies in graduate school, but family circumstances developed in such a way that she needed to go to work. For several years, Ekaterina was engaged in urban improvement, but she did not feel happy at this job, so at some point the young woman quit, packed her things and went in search of herself to Vietnam for six months, where she worked in the tourism sector and thought about how she wanted to see her future.

"I decided that I wanted to go back to uni, but this time I tried to enter a foreign university, and I chose a program in genetic engineering at the University of Greece. I collected the documents and rushed to Greece with full readiness to spend six years there. Before entering the bachelor's degree, I had to study Greek for a whole year, and then start studying in my specialty. For a year I tried to find a job in this country, but there were no suitable vacancies, they began to appear only with the beginning of the tourist season. I realized that I would not be able to find another job during the year, I would have to get a job only for the summer period, which means I would forget about going home. Therefore, despite the fact that I have mastered this difficult language, I decided to return to my homeland without starting my studies."

When Ekaterina arrived in St. Petersburg, she started working in the civil service again. But one call changed her fate. Professor Alla Alexandrovna Burinskaya, the scientific supervisor of the young woman during her studies at the specialty, called and said that a new direction in the master's degree related to nanoparticles was being opened at their Alma mater.

"Thoughts of returning to science have not left me all this time, so without a moment's hesitation, I said: "I'm doing it!". The first year I was still combining my studies with work, but as I became more and more immersed in research, I realized that I had to leave the civil service. After the master's degree, I went to graduate school and, under the guidance of Alla Alexandrovna, continued to study the method of obtaining antibacterial, antifungal tissues."

It is always interesting to observe the movement of scientific thought that leads scientists to their discoveries. Our heroine compares the research process with the work of her favorite artist Aivazovsky on his large-scale canvases.

"We, scientists, also work on a large number of details to come to some kind of result. It's not always noticeable. Most often, people do not know what is behind this or that invention. At the same time, I work in the laboratory from morning until late at night. I really love the process of research, when I myself do something with my hands. As for my development, I devoted a lot of time to solutions with copper nanoparticles, which are the basis for obtaining our antibacterial tissues. Copper has bactericidal properties, but it is very capricious and tends to oxidize. Then we came up with the idea to cover it with silver nanoparticles, and everything worked out 鈥� copper stopped oxidizing. I was so happy and immediately wrote about it to all my friends! Moreover, it turned out that copper and silver nanoparticles enhance each other's bactericidal properties."

The next difficulty was the uniform fixation of these nanoparticles on the surface and in the structure of the fabric, which turns golden yellow due to these nanoparticles. Gaps in staining are unacceptable, because they will allow bacteria to get on the fabric. It took a lot of effort and time from the young scientist to get high-quality, completely and evenly colored samples. Ekaterina collected all her unsuccessful attempts in a thick album with scraps of fabric as evidence of great perseverance.

Now Ekaterina Kudryavtseva is defending her PhD thesis, and works as an assistant at the Department of Chemical Technologies named after prof. A.A. Kharkharov, regularly participates in scientific competitions and speaks at conferences. The researcher patented her development and successfully completed the acceleration program on the basis of 草榴短视频, where she worked on promoting her invention as a startup project, which was already interested in manufacturers of medical devices, paint and textile industry enterprises.

"Sometimes I even had dreams about what other substances should be investigated and what to do. I would wake up and run to record. But I'm not trying in vain. Recently, I have often been called to give reports on my development. When I talk about my topic, I always light up. My enthusiasm and, of course, the results of the study themselves arouse great interest among investors and various enterprises with which we are now starting our cooperation. My dream is to take development to a new level so that it benefits people."

During the day Ekaterina Kudryavtseva wears a white coat and works in the laboratory, and in the evening she picks up a flute and takes her place in the private orchestra "Hobby Orchestra". It is unique in that the orchestra members are people of various professions who are in love with music. The orchestra is invited to perform at the Russian National Library, the Lendok Film Studio, the Theater of Young Spectators, Planetarium No. 1 and Alexander Park by order of the Administration of St. Petersburg. At rehearsals, the musicians hone every note and perform a fairly serious repertoire. "Hobby Orchestra" always gathers full halls.

"When I do music, I feel the same as during the experiment. There are many similarities between music and science. Music is very close to higher mathematics. The famous neurolinguist Tatiana Chernihiv compared the impulses that occur in the human brain when he solves a complex equation in higher mathematics with the impulses in the brain of a person who plays a musical instrument of Bach or Mozart. They are very similar, and I totally agree. Sometimes when I'm working on something complicated in the lab, I turn on the classics to tune in."

Ekaterina compares notes with nanoparticles 鈥� it is equally interesting to work with them. According to the young scientist, magic happens in both cases, because music and science are acts of creation. And in the life of our heroine, they perfectly harmonize and even complement each other.

Ekaterina Kudryavtseva achieved great success in the orchestra as quickly as in science. Since childhood, she dreamed of playing guitar and flute, but for the first time she picked up an instrument only after entering university. As a student, she independently learned to play the guitar, and after graduation, thanks to her colleague, she got into the orchestra. Soon the young woman began to learn to play the flute 鈥� the conductor of the Hobby Orchestra gave her lessons. Perseverance, daily rehearsals and an ardent desire to play allowed our heroine to soon begin performing in the orchestra as a flutist and even perform solo parts. Now Ekaterina dreams of solo concerts. Recently, the young woman even won an international competition from the Ministry of Culture of Russia in the direction of wind instruments. They say that a talented person is talented in everything. We are sure that Ekaterina has a talent for music, creativity, and scientific research, but one of her important qualities is undoubtedly hard work and perseverance, which led the young woman to success. She is an example of how multifaceted a person can be, what diverse interests and aspirations one person can have. Ekaterina, who has loved art and science all her life, shows that these spheres can not only coexist harmoniously, but also form synergy, enhancing each other's properties, just like copper and silver nanoparticles. This is proved by the Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design.

"Now is the time to do science. Today's realities allow you to create something quickly enough and implement your own development. I would like to advise students to start doing scientific research as early as possible in order to present a really serious development as a bachelor's degree or a master's thesis. Now, as an assistant of the department, I conduct laboratory work. I am very happy when students show enthusiasm, with one of them we are now thinking over the topic of research related to nanoparticles and the treatment of oncological diseases. I really want more students to choose science."