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Successful formation of electronic interfaces between living cells and electronic components requires both good cell viability and performance level. This paper presents a technology for the formation of nanostructured arrays of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) in biopolymer (albumin) layer for higher biocompatibility. The layer of liquid albumin dispersion was sprayed on synthesized MWCNT arrays by deposition system. These nanostructures were engineered using the nanosecond pulsed laser radiation mapping in the near-IR spectral range (λ = 1064 nm). It was determined that the energy density of 0.015 J/cm2 provided a sufficient structuring of MWCNT. The structuring effect occurred during the formation of C–C bonds simultaneously with the formation of a cellular structure of nanotubes in the albumin matrix. It led to a decrease in the nanotube defectiveness, which was observed during the Raman spectroscopy. In addition, laser structuring led to a more than twofold increase in the electrical conductivity of MWCNT arrays with albumin (215.8 ± 10 S/m). Successful electric stimulation of cells on the interfaces with the system based on a culture plate was performed, resulting in the enhanced cell proliferation. Overall, the MWCNT laser-structured arrays with biopolymers might be a promising material for extended biomedical applications.

The digitalization of socium has traumatic consequences – affects the consciousness and behavior of the young people which is specifically manifested in their disembedding from the context of social bonds. This presupposes the departure from the historically prescribed social forms and attachments which are parts of the process of the youth’s socialization and education. On the one hand, the youth as a social group is being subjected to the process of fragmentation of society caused by the fact that the educational institutions designed to act as mediators for the interests of the young people lose touch with them leading to an increase in uncertainty in the understanding of basic values. On the other hand – this fragmentation of the society is also promoted by the “digital risk” and “digital metamorphosis of society” which, according to U. Beck, causes a “radical type of individualization”: the young people tend to get rid of institutional relations, attachments to the local cultural context and begin to depend on the consequences of their own risks. The concrete factors of these processes are as follows. The digitalization of society radically changes the socialization of the young people. They have become addicted to “googling”. They rely more not on parents and teachers but on the opinions available from their mobile computers. As a result, the young people, being exposed to the codes of signification of Good and Evil taken from “googling”, become dependent on digital realities that determine the nature of their behavior in which the values of novelty begin to prevail. At the same time, their way of thinking is especially deformed, likened to the functioning of computers. Historically, the younger generation was socially and financially dependent on the older generation which actually caused a conflict between fathers and children. However, the circumstances of life in one socio-cultural space and time settled these contradictions quite successfully. Today the socialization takes on a digital character that is not directly related to the specific socio-cultural worlds of people, their previous status and roles. If socialization usually means the transfer of the values and norms from the older generation to the younger generation that are necessary for entering the existing social and political order, making young people actually social beings, now, according to U. Beck, with socialization there is a metamorphosis: “the young generations, on the contrary, were already born as ‘digital being’. What has been packed into the magic word ‘digital’ has become part of their ‘genetic outfit’” (Beck, 2016: 189). The digitalization of socium that has come into our lives brought social and cultural changes, radically transformed the nature of society and the young people. In my view, the adoption by scientists and then politicians of the integralism of digital and humanistic turns can ensure the transition of civilizations and societies to a fundamentally different trend of development. Our optimistic forecast regarding these opportunities is based on the following assumption: the existing very deep intergenerational conflict is not eternal – it may be forecasted that in a generation it will exhaust itself in the current forms because practically the socialization of all people will assume the mastery of values and norms necessary for the management of becoming socio-techno-natural realities in the humane interests of the mankind.