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Description: 
This institute has done considerable work on photographic emulsions. 
Associated investigations have considered the effect of infrared on the 
luminescence of silver chloride and the absorption spectrum of thin layers 
of thallium bromide. The Institute has done work on semiconductors. 
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Name: Scientific-Research Institute of Plastics 
(Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut plasticheskikh mass--NIIPM) 
Address: Moscow, Perovskiy proyezd, 35 
Director: M. S. Akutin (1960) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
Ye. L. Gefter 
A. V. Gordiyevskiy 
L. A. Igonin, Candidate 
V. I. Itinskiy 
I. V. Kamenskiy 
I. F. Kanavets 
V. N. Kotrelev 
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N. N. Oster-Volkov 
K. D. Petrov, Doctor 
I. I. Porzhitskiy 
S. B. Ratner 
G. Sagalayev 
P. N. Shcherbak 
N. S. Tikhomirova 
V. S. Titov 
A. B. Tsfasman 
B. P. Yershov 
Description: 
One of the major Soviet plastics research institutes, NIIPM has 
conducted research in the following areas: 
1) Phenolic and modified phenolic resins 
2) Production of glass fibers 
3) Fluoropolymers 
4) Organometallic and organoelemental polymers (containing 
silicon, germanium, aluminum, tin, phosphorus, etc.) 
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