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Tribotronic control and cyclic voltammetry of platinum interfaces with metal oxide nanofluids
Applied Surface Science. 2021. Vol. 566. Article 150675.
Seed C. M., Acharya B., Perelygin V., Smirnov A. I., Krim J.
Nanotribological and electrochemical behavior of platinum-nanofluid interfaces are reported for aqueous suspensions of positively charged Al2O3 and negatively charged TiO2 nanoparticles, employing Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) and cyclic voltammetry (CV) techniques. Tribotronic methods were employed to adjust the nanoparticles' positions relative to Pt surface electrodes, and both voltammetry and tribological performance measures were observed to be highly sensitive to the adjustments. Interfacial friction levels were observed to be higher for both types of nanoparticles when electrostatically driven towards the surface. For electric fields of sufficient amplitude and duration, the TiO2 nanosuspension exhibited properties consistent with reversible electrophoretic deposition of the nanoparticles, accompanied by changes in the electrochemical attributes of the electrode itself. Overall, the study suggests a method for active tribological control and optimization of device performance in applications where suspensions of charged nanoparticles are present and can be exposed to external fields.
Ratnikov F., Bocharnikov V., Journal of High Energy Physics 2026 Vol. 2026 P. 1–21
The BM@N experiment (Baryonic Matter at the Nuclotron) is the first fixed-target experiment at the JINR NICA accelerator complex. In this work, data on the interactions of a carbon-ion beam with kinetic energies of 4.0A GeV and 4.5A GeV with C, Al, Cu, and Pb targets are used to measure transverse momentum spectra and rapidity ...
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Budkov Y., Kalikin N., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 Article 064506
A self-consistent statistical-mechanical theory of the Hall effect in electrolyte solutions is developed by extending the self-consistent Debye–Hückel–Onsager (SCDHO) framework to crossed electric and magnetic fields. The theory incorporates non-local ionic charge distributions via Slater-type form factors, regularizing the Coulomb interaction at short range, and accounts for dielectric friction through ion-specific coefficients, employing experimental values ...
Added: August 12, 2026
Ali S., Bocharnikov V., Ratnikov F. et al., Sensors 2026 Vol. 26 No. 16 Article 5024
Large distributed sensor arrays require repeated recalibration as radiation damage, material aging, gain variation, and readout drift alter channel responses. We studied a high-granularity calorimeter as a large sensor array and addressed unsupervised recalibration from two unpaired datasets: a nominal reference response and an aged response with attenuated cell-wise signals. Aging was modeled by a ...
Added: August 11, 2026
Ponomarev A., Aleksandrov N., Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2026 Vol. 59 Article 315205
Electron attachment and detachment in H2O:O2 and H2O:air mixtures are theoretically studied at moderate (40–100 Td) reduced electric fields. It is shown that there are two synergistic mechanisms of ultra-rapid electron detachment from negative ions in these mixtures, whereas these detachment channels are absent in pure gases. Effective attachment coefficient calculated with consideration for fast ion–molecule ...
Added: August 6, 2026
Khrapai V., Tikhonov E., Nature Physics 2026 P. 1–2
Feng et al.1 presented transport measurements of three-terminal normal–superconductor–normal devices based on topological insulator nanowires. They measured the full differential conductance matrix, defined as Gij = ∂Ii /∂Vj , beyond the linear response regime as a function of various control parameters. Here i, j∈ [1, 2] denote normal terminals biased by the voltages V1 and ...
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G. G. Bondarenko, Kristya V. I., Savichkin D. O. et al., Journal of Surface Investigation: X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques 2026 Vol. 20 No. 2 P. 417–423
A model of a glow gas discharge in a mixture of argon and mercury vapor is formulated in the presence
of a thin insulating film on the cathode surface. Dependences of the discharge characteristics on the
mixture temperature are calculated in the range of its variation, in which a noticeable contribution to ionization
of the working gas is ...
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Касимов Р. Х., Аржанов А. И., Седых К. О. et al., Оптический журнал 2026 Т. 93 № 1 С. 80–86
Предмет исследования. Использование метода капельного нанесения для изготовления источника одиночных фотонов. Цель работы. Разработка технологического процесса изготовления источника одиночных фотонов на коллоидных квантовых точках для использования их в фотон- ных интегральных схемах. Метод. На первом этапе в программе ANSYS Lumerical рассчитыва- ются период и фактор заполнения фокусирующих элементов связи на длинах волн 545 и 600 ...
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Nevzorov A., Golikov A., Gneushev D. et al., JETP Letters 2026 Vol. 147–151 No. 3 P. 147–151
This paper demonstrates a special stochastic operation mode of a photonic element with a thin GeTe film deposited at a silicon nitride waveguide. As opposed to traditional deterministic switching between stable states, it has been shown that identical pump laser pulses cause a stochastic change in the transmission coefficient. The discovered effect opens up new ...
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Dual-mode infrared detection via photovoltaic and barrier pyroelectric effects in PbTe p–n junctions
Jarashneli A., Кобцев Д. М., Upcher A. et al., Journal of Applied Physics 2026 Vol. 140 No. 2 Article 024501
In the work, two effects appeared in PbTe p–n junctions under mid-wavelength infrared (2 − 5 μm) and long-wavelength infrared irradiation (≈10.6 μm). The first effect was created by the optical absorption of lR-photons in PbTe and caused by its photovoltage effect. The second novel effect is related to the heating process and the formation ...
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Nikolaev G. A., Orlov O. V., Andreeva S. et al., Physical Review Applied 2026 Vol. 26 Article 014099
We report the electrical detection of the spin resonance with temporal resolution in a two-dimensional electron system. Spin resonance was excited by pulses of subterahertz radiation characterized by relatively short rise and fall times on the order of 10 ns and was observed as a resonant peak in the high-frequency conductivity of the two-dimensional channel. The ...
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S. A. Andreeva, Orlov O. V., A. V. Shchepetilnikov et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 No. 6 Article 065420
We investigate the temperature dependence of the pseudospin phase transition at filling factor 𝜈=2 in the quantum Hall regime. Experiments were performed on a high-quality, wide AlAs quantum well, where the pseudospin degree of freedom arises naturally from the near degeneracy and equivalence of the two conduction-band valleys. The anisotropic 𝑔-factor inherent to AlAs enabled independent measurement of ...
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Voropaeva D., S. Novikova, I. Stenina et al., Solid State Ionics 2026 Vol. 445 Article 117288
Composite gel polymer electrolytes based on a perfluorinated sulfonic acid cation-exchange MF-4SC membrane
containing surface-sulfonated nanoparticles of aluminum oxide, cerium (IV) oxide, and titanium oxide (sAl2O3,
sCeO2, and sTiO2, respectively) were prepared by casting from a dispersion in N,N-dimethylformamide and
plasticized with a 1,3-dioxolane/1,2-dimethoxyethane mixture. The influence of the filler nature on ionic conductivity,
solvent uptake, activation energy, lithium ...
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Metlov K., Andrei B. Bogatyrëv, Annalen der Physik 2026 Vol. 538 No. 6 Article e70234
Thanks to the recent progress in bulk full three-dimensional nanoscale magnetization distribution imaging, there is a growing
interest to three-dimensional (3D) magnetization textures, promising new high information density spintronic applications.
Compared to 1D domain walls or 2D magnetic vortices/skyrmions, they are a much harder challenge to represent, analyze and
reason about. Here we build analytical representation for such ...
Added: July 28, 2026
Dmitry Vasilyev, Gorev V., Ikhsanov R. et al., Journal of Materials Science 2026 No. 61 P. 25452–25470
The orthorhombic phase of 𝛼-Mo2 C is a key component in electrocatalytic applications, as Mo2C-based catalysts can exhibit catalytic performance comparable to or exceeding that of noble metals. Despite its technological relevance, theoretical understanding of the anisotropy in the thermal expansion and related thermoelastic properties of 𝛼-Mo2 C remains limited. In this work, first-principles calculations ...
Added: July 23, 2026
Borovitskaya I. V., Pimenov V. N., Korshunov S. N. et al., Physics of Atomic Nuclei 2026 Vol. 89 No. 1 P. S48–S55
The effect of high-power pulsed laser radiation (LR) generated in the GOS 1001 setup in the
Q-modulated mode (with a flux power density q equal to 1 × 1014 W/m2, pulse duration t = 50 ns, and the
number of pulses N from 1 to 8 in vacuum) on the structure and microhardness of the surface of ...
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Korogod D., Shapeev A., Ivan S. Novikov, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 No. 2 Article 024104
We present two models with explicit long-range electrostatics in the form of Coulomb interactions. Both models include point charges depending on their local atomic environments, and the second model also conserves a total charge of an atomic system. We combine the proposed long-range models with the local moment tensor potential (MTP) and demonstrate that they ...
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Sozykin K., Rybin N., Chertkov A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 113 No. 22 Article 224111
The global optimization of atomic clusters represents a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry and materials science due to the exponential growth of local minima with system size (i.e., the curse of dimensionality). We introduce a framework that overcomes this limitation by exploiting the low-rank structure of potential energy surfaces through tensor train (TT) decomposition. Our ...
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Loubenets E. R., / Series arxiv.org "quant-ph". 2026. No. 2607.18050.
In many quantum applications it is important to know whether or not a Bell nonlocal two-qudit state exhibits its nonlocality under correlation scenarios with some given numbers S1,S2≥1 of generalized quantum measurements at two sites. In the present article, we find analytically a new general locality condition sufficient for a nonseparable Werner state with a ...
Added: July 21, 2026
Гущина В. А., Mendeleev Communications 2025 Vol. 35 No. 2 P. 193–195
All-inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 nanoparticles are intensively studied for their unique optical properties, though synthesizing single-phase nanoparticles has posed challenges. Detailed synthesis method of CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 single-phase nanoparticles and their chemical and phase analysis are described. Distinctive optical characteristics, such as photoluminescence, optical band gap and the Urbach tail region, are revealed and explained within the current ...
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Dolgov L., Orlovskaya E., Shaidulin Artem et al., Physica B: Condensed Matter 2024 Vol. 695 Article 416562
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Lashkari A. H., Ostovari Moghaddam A., Shokuhfar A., Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 2023 Vol. 129 Article 373
Nickel-doped off-stoichiometric bornite Cu5–xNixFeS3.71 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 nanoparticles were synthesized by high-energy mechanical alloying (MA) and subsequent annealing at 653 K for 1 h. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the annealed powders revealed low-orthorhombic bornite as the main phase with a minor amount (< 2%) of digenite as the second phase. XRD analysis, scanning electron microscopy ...
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Yang L., He R., Chai J. et al., Advanced Materials 2025 Vol. 37 No. 1 Article 2412337
Nanoparticles (NPs) of high entropy materials (HEMs) have attracted significant attention due to their versatility and wide range of applications. HEM NPs can be synthesized by fragmenting bulk HEMs or disintegrating and recrystallizing them. Alternatively, directly producing HEMs in NP form from atomic/ionic/molecular precursors presents a significant challenge. A widely adopted strategy involves thermodynamically driving ...
Added: January 12, 2025
Minkin A., Lebedeva I., Popov A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2023 Vol. 108 No. 8 Article 085411
The potential energy surface (PES) of the interlayer interaction of infinite twisted bilayer graphene is calculated for a set of commensurate moiré patterns using the registry-dependent Kolmogorov-Crespi empirical potential. The calculated PESs have the same shape for all considered moiré patterns, and the unit cell size of the PESs is inversely related to the unit ...
Added: August 22, 2023
Perelygin V., Voinov M., Marek A. et al., Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019 Vol. 123 No. 49 P. 29972–29985
Interfacial electrostatic properties of monodisperse silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) in aqueous suspensions as a function of bulk pH were characterized by spin labeling EPR of two ionizable nitroxides: (1) IMTSL (S-(1-oxyl-2,2,3,5,5-pentamethylimidazolidin-4-yl)methylmethanesulfo-nothioate) and IKMTSL (S-4-(4-(dimethylamino)-2-ethyl-5,5-dimethyl-1-oxyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl). SiNPs of ca. 116 nm in diameter (by particle number) were synthesized using the Stöber method, and their surface was modified by ...
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