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A new 2-methylimidazole-assisted liquid-exfoliation method for a rapid scalable fabrication of chemically pure MoS2 nanosheets
Colloids and Interface Science Communications. 2022. Vol. 47. Article 100604.
Sokolov M. R., Tumbinskiy K. A., Zvyagina A. I., Senchikhin I., Averin A. A., Aleksandrov A. E., Tameev A. R., Ezhov A. A., Kalinina M. A.
A new liquid exfoliation method of pristine MoS2 in a hot solution of 2-methylimidazole for a rapid fabrication of
1–2 nm-thick MoS2 nanoflakes is developed. The method makes it possible to produce large amounts of stable
MoS2 hydrosols with concentrations 0.21–0.53 mg/ml within 2–4 h. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopies and
thermogravimetric analysis confirmed chemical purity of MoS2 after the removal of 2-methylimidazole with
water. The as-formed MoS2 nanoflakes have a relatively narrow size distribution (50 ± 25 nm) and exhibit a
strong aggregation-dependent luminescence at 420–475 nm. The thin films obtained from the MoS2 nanoflakes
by spin-coating possess good semiconductor properties showing a non-ohmic linear current-voltage dependence
and a surface resistivity up to 7.9 × 10–2 Ω⋅сm. The reported method may provide an affordable, experimentally
simple and ecology-friendly alternative to commonly used techniques for fabricating MoS2 nanosheets with a
potentially useful combination of size and properties for further applications in hybrid and composite materials.
Shi R., Yu Y., Чибисов А. Н., International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2025 Vol. 107 P. 52–62
Cyanide containing wastewater can cause livestock death and reduce agricultural production and electrochemical reduction of cyanide (CNRR) is a promising way to eliminate its harm and turn waste into valuable products. However, the reaction mechanism and function of electrocatalysts for CNRR have not been fully understood yet. Herein we identify a two-dimensional (2D) conductive copper-organic ...
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Bulakh S., Чибисов А. Н., Srivastava A., Russian Microelectronics 2026 Vol. 55 P. 311–315
The effect of sulfur vacancies on the electronic structure of a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer has been studied using density functional theory (DFT) methods implemented in the VASP software package. The ideal structure and systems with one and two sulfur vacancies and various options of defect localization in the MoS2 structure have been discussed. A ...
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Ekaterina D. Riumina, Klink G. V., Alekseeva E. et al., PNAS, США 2026 Vol. 123 No. 35 P. 1–20
The role of escape from the cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response in SARS-CoV-2 evolution remains controversial. Here, we study the origin and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants whose mutations reduce presentation by the HLA class I alleles common in human populations. We find that 35% of mutations that are characteristic of the variants of concern, and ...
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Zhukov A., Chen F., Zeng Y. et al., Nanoscale 2026 Vol. 18 No. 36 P. 19223–19253
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have emerged as promising materials for next-generation light-emitting diodes (LEDs) owing to their solution processability, tunable emission wavelengths, narrow emission linewidths, and high photoluminescence quantum yields. Among them, anisotropic nanocrystals, including one-dimensional nanorods (NRs) and two-dimensional nanoplatelets (NPLs), offer additional opportunities for controlling transition dipole moment orientation and light out-coupling efficiency. These ...
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Мальцева В. Е., Ananyev I., Milevskii N. et al., Molecular Systems Design and Engineering 2026 Vol. 11 No. 7 P. 691–704
The use of hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as extractants for metal ion separation is largely due to the ease of their preparation and the possibility of modifying them depending on the composition of the metal mixture to be separated. However, the most common approach to DES modification involves the replacement of the extractant, while ...
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Мальцева В. Е., Ananyev I., Golubev A. V. et al., Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2026 Vol. 71 P. 724–736
Two voluminous polymer silver(I) salts of perchlorinated dodecoborate clusters, {[(Me2CO)Ag(μ-Me2CO)2Ag(Me2CO)][μ-B12Cl12]}n (1) and {[DMFAg(μ-DMF)2AgDMF][μ-B12Cl12]}n (2) were synthesized. The 35Cl nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy supplemented with the X-ray diffraction data was applied for identifying and analyzing noncovalent interactions Cl···X in these salts. Whereas in X-ray diffraction, noncovalent interactions are associated with the presence of the shortened ...
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Мальцева В. Е., Rozhkov A., Ananyev I. et al., Inorganic Chemistry 2026 Vol. 65 No. 22 P. 12484–12496
Despite the well-established importance of chalcogen bonding in crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry, experimental charge density data for TeII-centered chalcogen bonds have remained entirely absent, leaving the electronic nature of these interactions uncharacterized at the level of directly measured electron density. Here, we report the first high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) study of TeII-centered chalcogen bonds, ...
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Ostovari Moghaddam A., Mehrabi-Kalajahi S., Solizoda I. A. et al., Metals and Materials International 2026 P. 1–9
Off-stoichiometric boron-doped chemically complex intermetallic alloys (CCIMAs) have recently emerged as a new avenue for overcoming the low temperature brittleness of ordered superlattices. However, their behavior at high temperatures remains unexplored. In this study, a novel (Ni39.6Co29.3Cr10Al15.8Ta3.3Nb2)98.5B1.5 CCIMA was prepared and its oxidation resistance over a wide temperature range (500 °C–950 °C) was studied. The ...
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Obraztsova Anna, Fominykh Nikita, Komarov Sergey et al., Applied Physics Letters 2026 Vol. 129 Article 132110
Miniaturization of edge-emitting quantum-dot lasers is hampered by increased mirror losses in ultra-short Fabry–Perot cavities and limited modal gain of quantum dots (QDs). Here, we demonstrate electrically injected InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot stripe lasers with an 8-lm stripe width and focused-ion-beam (FIB)-etched mirrors defining cavity lengths from 300 to 77 lm. The laser cavities were fabricated using ...
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Kashpurovich I., Oleynichenko A., Stegailov V., Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations 2026 Vol. 13 No. 1 P. 52–73
We report a high-performance implementation of the resolution-of-the-identity Hartree–Fock method that fully exploits the permutational symmetry of three-center electron repulsion integrals (ERI). The present implementation adopts a hybrid MPI+OpenMP parallelization strategy. Two different algorithmic approaches (with and without the pre-transformation of ERIs) are compared. A custom data layout introduced previously is employed. Designed to efficiently ...
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Li Y., Han J., Zaman N. et al., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2026 Vol. 18 No. 39 P. 54241–54251
The development of lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dot (QD) photodetectors for short-wave infrared (SWIR) applications has been fundamentally limited by the thermodynamic instability of large PbS QD facets, which leads to aggregation and epitaxial fusion. In this work, robust thermodynamic stabilization was achieved by introducing methylammonium chloride (MACl) in PbS QD surface passivation, as validated ...
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Gureev M., Advanced Science 2026 P. 1–13
Targeted protein degradation represents a promising therapeutic strategy, yet its broader application is often limited by the scarcity of usable E3 ligases. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is a key target for inducing ferroptosis, but achieving sustained and potent inhibition remains challenging with conventional enzymatic inhibitors. Herein, we report the first small‐molecule GPX4 degraders that incorporate ...
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Войтович В. И., Makhov I., Мельниченко И. А. et al., Optics Letters 2026 Vol. 51 No. 17 P. 4872–4875
The influence of cavity surface passivation with SiO2 coating deposited by the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique is investigated for injection microdisk lasers with an InGaAsN/GaAs quantum well active region. The electroluminescence spectra of the microdisk lasers with cavity diameters ranging from 12 to 32 μm with and without sidewall surface passivation were studied for a ...
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Бабичев А. В., Makhov I., Kryzhanovskaya N. et al., Оптика и спектроскопия 2026 Т. 134 № 3 С. 272–277
Представлены результаты по реализации генерации при повышенных температурах в лазерах с длиной волны генерации 980 nm на основе вертикального микрорезонатора с использованием непоглощающих на длине волны оптической накачки зеркал. Минимальная пороговая мощность накачки составила ~0.8 mW и соответствовала температуре 150 K. Добротность микрорезонатора, определенная на пороге генерации, превысила 13000. Максимальная рабочая температура микролазера составила 195 ...
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Бабичев А. В., Makhov I., Kryzhanovskaya N. et al., Письма в Журнал технической физики 2026 Т. 52 № 12 С. 40–43
Реализована одночастотная генерация при 300 K в лазерах на основе вертикального микрорезонатора. Для лазеров с полупроводниковым выводным зеркалом пороговая плотность мощности накачки составила 6.5 kW/cm2. Добротность микрорезонатора и длина волны излучения, определенные на пороге генерации, равнялись 8800 и ~ 959.8 nm. Применение конструкции микрорезонатора с гибридным выводным зеркалом позволило повысить добротность микрорезонатора (до 12 360) ...
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Бабичев А. В., Makhov I., Kryzhanovskaya N. et al., Письма в Журнал технической физики 2026 Т. 52 № 18 С. 30–34
Представлены результаты реализации генерации при комнатной температуре в планарных вертикальных микрорезонаторах на основе зеркал Al0.2Ga0.8As/Al0.9Ga0.1As. При 300 K пороговая плотность мощности и добротность на пороге генерации составили 11.4± 0.7 kW/cm2 и 5070± 160 соответственно. Двукратное превышение порога генерации привело к увеличению добротности микрорезонатора до 19 000. Эффективный латеральный теплоотвод подтвержден малым сдвигом энергии кванта, который составил ...
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Budkov Y., Kiselev M. G., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124508
We develop a three-mode statistical-mechanical theory for a two-conformer
solute in a near-critical solvent. A compressible lattice model with
vacancies yields the Gaussian free-energy functional for a critical conserved
density, an orthogonal noncritical conserved mode, and the local conformer
fraction. Their couplings follow from packing and cohesive interactions,
rather than being introduced phenomenologically. Kawasaki transport of the
two conserved fields and ...
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Yurova P., Stenina I., Yaroslavtsev A. B., Membranes and Membrane Technologies 2026 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 1–8
In this work, the effect of applying layers of polyethyleneimines with different molecular weights
(1300 and 25000 Da), polystyrene sulfonic acid or sodium polyacrylate on the surface of the heterogeneous
membrane MK-40 on the selectivity to singly charged ions was investigated. It is shown that the modification
leads to an increase in the selectivity coefficients P(Na+/Ca2+) and P(Li+/Mg2+), ...
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Zhukov A., Wang Q., Zeng Y. et al., Nano Letters 2026 Vol. 26 No. 34 P. 11565–11572
Colloidal semiconductor nanorods (NRs) are promising room-temperature single-photon sources because of their
solution processability, tunable optical properties, and intrinsically linearly polarized emission. However, simultaneously achieving high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), strong polarization, and high-purity single-photon emission remains challenging in conventional binary-shell NRs due to the competing requirements of
exciton confinement and core/shell lattice−strain management. Here, we report CdSe/CdZnS gradient alloy core/shell NRs with tunable ...
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Yury A. Budkov, Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124105
Exact theories of electrolyte structure must satisfy the nonlocal constraints imposed by electrostatic screening, yet these constraints are most commonly formulated only for homogeneous bulk systems and at the level of two-point correlations. Here, we develop a unified field-theoretic framework that extends them to general inhomogeneous ionic fluids and nonlinear charge correlations. Using a standard ...
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Novikov A., Journal of Organic Chemistry 2026 Vol. 91 No. 39 P. 13108–13114
A heptafluorobutyric acid-induced cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction of arylamines with 1,2,4-triazines has been described. This metal-free protocol enables regioselective para-C–H hetarylation of diverse arylamines including well-known fluorophore scaffolds, such as triphenylamine, carbazole, and phenothiazine, with easily accessible 1,2,4-triazines under mild conditions. This approach has potential for drug development and material design. ...
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Sobov P., Yakushev I., Shestakov A. et al., Organometallics 2025 Vol. 44 No. 24 P. 2873–2881
Interaction of {Cryptand(K+)}(C60•–) with CpCo(CO)2 yields the air-sensitive crystalline salt {Cryptand(K+)}{CpCo(CO)-η2-C60•–} (1), in which C60•– replaces carbonyl group in CpCo(CO)2. Two Co–C bonds of 2.028(9) and 2.057(8)Å are formed. The magnetic moment of 1 is 1.72 μB, indicating a doublet S = 1/2 spin state of {CpCo(CO)-η2-C60•–} at 300 K. The compound shows a broad ...
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Novikov A., Polyhedron 2026 Vol. 299 Article 118383
Three new Hg(II) bromide complexes, HgBr2L (1–3) (L1 = N′-(pyridin-2-ylmethylene)isonicotinohydrazide, L2 = N′-(1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidene)isonicotinohydrazide, L3 = N′-(phenyl(pyridin-2-yl)methylene)isonicotinohydrazide), have been synthesized in good yields and thoroughly characterized. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses unveil that complexes 1 and 3 are mononuclear, while complex 2 is dinuclear. All complexes further assemble into one-dimensional supramolecular chains mediated by N–H···N hydrogen bonds, which are reinforced by π···π stacking and Br···Br halogen interactions. Systematic variation ...
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Chinaud-Chaix C., Marchenko N., Fernique Т. C. et al., New Journal of Chemistry 2023 Vol. 47 No. 15 P. 7014–7025
Two-dimensional (2D) self-assembly (SA) is an efficient strategy to organize building blocks in a simple and efficient way. Actually, different communities of chemists or physicists use 2D SA, with different systems at different scales: molecules, nanoobjects, micron-sized colloidal particles, and even millimetric plastic shapes. Although, the cases of study and the perspectives are different, general ...
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