Russian scientists have created synthetic materials for world-class aircraft

RAS President Gennady Krasnikov said in an interview with RIA Novosti that Russian scientists have created world-class synthetic materials for the fuselage and wings of aircraft.

“I would like to note a new trend: the so-called direction of digital chemistry or digital materials science, when machine learning methods make it possible to synthesize new materials very quickly - by orders of magnitude - and very efficiently, including new drugs. There is simply a colossal breakthrough here,” Krasnikov said.

Artificial intelligence in this area is not just an assistant - it sometimes acts as a partner of a scientist, generates ideas, immediately tests them, they work together, and all advanced scientific schools actively use this approach, the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted.

Krasnikov added that the current challenge is the technological independence of Russian industry.

“For example, in materials for aircraft construction. Our synthetic fibers make it possible to make both wings and fuselages for aircraft at the world level,” he explained.