and i’m sitting at home, he’s in greenoble, there i have to measure it around the clock, he sends medefractograms, spectra, i check them on the computer and compare them with my own and... at some point i see that they overlapped like this, what we predicted, and what we synthesized. you grabbed your head, like in the movies they were taught or something happened, which is not quite true, it was already night, it was like, oh, everything is fine, closed it, went to bed. one of alexander’s most successful projects is related to the creation of a particularly strong material for drill bit cutters. in collaboration with colleagues from different scientific centers, the project was implemented, as they say, in metal. the customer was the largest resource-extracting company of the country. and we predicted a material based on tungsten and boron, this is the highest tungsten boron, which turned out to be harder than the materials that are currently used. tungsten pentabarite also opened up a new direction for the group, dedicated to catalysts. an idea arose to replace expensive precious me