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FSBI "Sociocenter". Import Substitution in Action: VSTU Creates Conductive Adhesive for High-Tech Industries
17.04.2026
A research group at Volgograd State Technical University (VSTU) has developed electrically conductive, high-temperature-resistant adhesives based on polyimide binders. The work was carried out by a team led by Russian Academy of Sciences Academician I. A. Novakov as part of the strategic technology project "Low-Tonnage Chemistry and Specialty Polymers."
Electrically conductive, high-temperature-resistant polyimide-based adhesives are dual-use products and have been subject to sanctions restrictions. Consequently, researchers were tasked with creating domestic import-substituting analogs with comparable functional characteristics.
"The technical specification proved extremely challenging: pure polyimide is a dielectric. We managed to develop a range of lacquer matrices and optimize the technology for filling them with conductive fillers," said Elena Alykova, Associate Professor at the Department of Analytical, Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physical Chemistry at VSTU.
According to her, the laboratory samples created by the university specialists have successfully passed adhesion and electrical conductivity tests.
"Conducted studies have confirmed that the electrically conductive adhesive based on our synthesized polyimide is not inferior to foreign analogs in key parameters," she emphasized.
Currently, the development is at the pilot industrial testing stage: the adhesive created by VSTU scientists is undergoing experimental verification at the "Meteor" Plant JSC under real production conditions. The developers believe this opens up prospects for its implementation in high-tech industries.
The project is being implemented under the Russian Ministry of Education and Science's "Priority-2030" program (the "Youth and Children" national project).
