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Polystyrene-Based Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolyte for Lithium Metal Batteries
Processes. 2022. Vol. 10. No. 12. Article 2509.
Lithium metal batteries are one of the more promising replacements for lithium-ion batteries
owing to their ability to reach high energy densities. The main problem limiting their commercial
application is the formation of dendrites, which significantly reduces their durability and renders
the batteries unsafe. In the present work, we used a single-ion conducting gel polymer electrolyte
based on a poly(ethylene-ran-butylene)-block-polystyrene (SEBS) block copolymer, which was functionalized
with benzenesulfonylimide anions and plasticized by a mixture of ethylene carbonate
and dimethylacetamide (SSEBS-Ph-EC-DMA), with a solvent uptake of 160% (~12 solvent molecules
per one functional group of the membrane). The SSEBS-Ph-EC-DMA electrolyte exhibits an ionic
conductivity of 0.6 mSmcm1 at 25 C and appears to be a cationic conductor (TLi+ = 0.72). SSEBSPh-
EC-DMA is electrochemically stable up to 4.1 V. Symmetrical Li|Li cells; further, with regard to
SSEBS-Ph-EC-DMA membrane electrolytes, it showed a good performance (~0.10 V at first cycles
and <0.23 V after 700 h of cycling at 0.1 mAcm2 and 0.05 mAhcm2). The LiFePO4|SSEBSPh-
EC-DMA|Li battery showed discharge capacity values of 100 mAhg1 and a 100% Coulomb
efficiency, at a cycling rate of 0.1C.
Nazarov Alexey A., Dudarova N., Zhidkova O. et al., Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2026 Vol. 483 Article 117654
Сyclocondensation of phenyl, ortho-bromophenyl, para-phenylphenyl, para-methoxycarbonylphenyl, para-tolyl and para-methoxyphenyl boronic acid with curcumin in the presence of K3PO4 upon refluxing in 1,4-dioxane for 24 h leads to the formation of curcumin-based 2,2-diaryl-1,3,2-dioxaborines in good yields. The absorption-emission spectra of the synthesized fluorescent conjugates and 1,3,2-dioxaborine with para-biphenyl boronic substituent demonstrated the highest quantum yield. Among the compounds studied, conjugate curcumin with para-methoxycarbonylphenyl boronic substituent ...
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Chemical Papers 2026
Benzenoid hydrocarbons are structurally regular aromatic compounds, which makes them well suited for quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) studies. This study presents a QSPR analysis of nineteen benzenoid hydrocarbon species using degree-based topological co-indices. We developed a Python program to compute eleven degree-based topological co-indices from molecular graphs and evaluated their ability to explain variations in ...
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Gurina D., Fashchevsky K. A., Oparin R. D. et al., Surfaces and Interfaces 2026 Vol. 98 Article 110545
In this work, we combine experimental characterization and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to elucidate the molecular mechanisms governing the impregnation of mefenamic acid (MFA) into nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) aerogels. NCC aerogels were impregnated with MFA in scCO2, and low-temperature nitrogen adsorption revealed a concentration-dependent decrease in surface area, pore volume, and pore size, with an ...
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Marychev P., Shanenko A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 No. 7 Article 074509
We investigate the effect of weak interband impurity scattering on the intertype (IT) domain between type-I and type-II superconductivity in diffusive two-band superconductors. Our results show that the significant broadening of the IT domain with increasing band diffusivity ratio, previously established in the absence of interband scattering, persists under weak interband scattering. However, depending on ...
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Томаева М. А., Неверов В. Д., Shanenko A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 114 P. 1–6
We report a thermally driven structural crossover of vortex matter in a two-dimensional superconducting Penrose quasicrystal. At low temperatures, vortices are pinned by the quasiperiodic lattice, forming an aperiodic pattern. With increasing temperature, vortex-vortex interactions dominate, leading to a conventional triangular Abrikosov lattice. Our findings reveal a tunable interplay between intrinsic pinning and vortex interactions, ...
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Неверов В. Д., Красавин А. В., Vagov A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2026 Vol. 113 P. 1–6
We develop a neural network approach to solve the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations in strongly disordered s-wave superconductors. The method accurately reproduces inhomogeneous gap distributions and generalizes to system sizes far larger than those used in training. It reduces computational scaling from O(N6 ) to O(N2), enabling quantitative analysis of percolation phenomena and the superconductor-insulator ...
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Бондаренко Г.Г., Фишер М. Р., Кристя В. И., Известия РАН. Серия физическая 2026 Т. 90 № 4 С. 867–874
Сформулирована модель катодного слоя тлеющего газового разряда при наличии на
части рабочей поверхности катода тонкой диэлектрической пленки. Показано, что переход тлеющего разряда в дуговой разряд, сопровождающийся значительным увеличением плотности разрядного тока и уменьшением катодного падения напряжения, происходит наиболее быстро, если
пленка занимает примерно половину поверхности катода. ...
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Budkov Y., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 9 Article 094902
We derive the stress tensor of a flexible polymer solution within the Gaussian-chain self-consistent field theory (SCFT) without invoking the ground-state dominance (GSD) approximation. Starting from a covariant formulation of the single-chain partition function in a background metric, we obtain the symmetric stress tensor expressed through the full Edwards propagators. The result contains the local ...
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Novikov A., Polyhedron 2026 Vol. 299 Article 118358
Two new supramolecular halometalate hybrid complexes, (H2bpen){[MCl5](I2)} (M = Sb(III) (1) and Bi(III) (2); bpen – 1,2-Bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene, have been prepared. Despite very close similarity of the nature of cations, they reveal significant structural difference from the (H2bpe){[MCl5](I2)} (bpe – 1,2-bis(4-pyridil)ethane) reported earlier. We discuss these features, along with thermal stability, optical properties as well as Raman spectra ...
Added: September 2, 2026
Danil Kobtsev, Jarashneli A., Maman N. et al., Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 Article 8577
AIVBVI semiconductors, particularly lead chalcogenides, remain key materials for mid-wave infrared (MWIR) photodetection due to their narrow bandgap and exceptional carrier transport properties. However, the realization of high-quality p-type PbTe thin films, suitable for p–n junction devices, remains a technological challenge. In this work, we report the fabrication of high-mobility p-type PbTe thin films grown on ...
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Meng K., Vasenko A., Chulkov E. et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2026 Vol. 17 No. 36 P. 10546–10554
Data-driven discovery of sodium-ion cathodes is often limited by small data sets and the poor interpretability of graph neural networks (GNNs). Here, we developed Symbol_ETR, an interpretable framework combining symbolic regression with ensemble learning. By constructing explicit nonlinear descriptors, symbolic regression extra trees regression (Symbol_ETR) achieves a test R2 of 0.90 for average voltage prediction ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Belousov Y., Кискин М. А., Sidoruk A. et al., Australian Journal of Chemistry 2022 Vol. 75 No. 9 P. 572–580
Four new complexes [Ln(pfaa)3(H2O)2]n (Ln = Eu (1), Tb (2)) and [Ln2Cd2(pfaa)10 (phen)2(EtOH)2]·2MeCN (Ln = Eu (3), Tb (4), phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) based on pentaphorphenylacetic acid (Hpfaa) have been prepared and completely investigated. The structures of compounds 1 and 3 were studied by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis: the isostructural complexes 1 and 2 represent ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Mazur D., Petr E. Brandyshev, Doronin S. et al., Electrochimica Acta 2026 Vol. 577 Article 149729
The electric double layer (EDL) at a single-crystal metal surface is controlled not only by the electrolyte composition and the electrode potential, but also by the atomic structure of the surface itself. This makes the Ag(hkl)/NaF interface a stringent test for continuum theories of the EDL. In the third part of our series, we examine ...
Added: August 20, 2026
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 ...
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Obijiofor O., Alexander S. Novikov, New Journal of Chemistry 2026 Vol. 50 No. 33 P. 13931–13957
The rational design of coinage metal nanocarriers requires a mechanistic understanding of metal-drug binding and predictive descriptors that translate molecular interactions into design rules. Using DFT (B3LYP-D3BJ/def2-TZVP, SMD water), we systematically investigated the binding of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and levodopa (l-DOPA) to neutral and cationic homo- and heteronuclear dimers of Au, Ag, and Cu (Au2, Ag2, ...
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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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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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Voropaeva D., Trofimenko N. A., S. A. Novikova et al., Membranes and Membrane Technologies 2025 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 112–124
Modern studies in the field of lithium metal batteries focus on the development of safe and stable electrolytes with high ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability. In this context, promising materials are gel polymer electrolytes based on perfluorosulfonic acid cation-exchange membranes modified with inorganic fillers and solvated with aprotic solvents. This study addresses Nafion® composite membranes ...
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Zhigileva E., Enakieva Y., Chernyshev V. et al., Dalton Transactions 2024 Vol. 53 No. 39 P. 16345–16354
Post-synthetic modification of proton-conducting metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) by loading small molecules
capable of generating protons into pores is an efficient approach for developing a new type of material
with improved ionic conductivity. Herein, the synthesis, characterization and proton conductivity of a novel
electroneutral MOF based on palladium(II) meso-tetrakis(4-(phosphonatophenyl))porphyrinate, IPCE-1Pd, are
reported. The exposure of the obtained framework to imidazole ...
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Karavanova Y.A., Golubenko D.V., Yaroslavtsev A.B., МЕМБРАНЫ И МЕМБРАННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ, Российская Федерация 2020 Vol. 2 No. 4 P. 251–255
Phosphonates with the composition Zr(PO3(CH2)nPh)2 with n = 0, 1, and 3 are synthesized. Hybrid membranes based on an MF-4SK membrane and the synthesized phosphonates are made. The influence of the dopant, its concentration, and synthesis method on the ion-conducting properties of the membranes is studied in comparison with hybrid membranes based on α-zirconium hydrogen phosphate. ...
Added: November 5, 2024
Voropaeva D., Safronova E., Novikova S. et al., Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024 Vol. 128 No. 10 P. 4143–4151
Gel-polymer electrolytes based on perfluorinated cation-exchange membranes are promising electrolytes for lithium metal batteries due to the strength and chemical stability of the fluorinated matrix and high values of ionic conductivity and cation transference numbers, which contribute to the suppression of dendrite formation. The present work compares the main characteristics of polymer electrolytes based on ...
Added: June 20, 2024
Voropaeva D., Novikova S., Stenina I. et al., Polymers 2023 Vol. 15 No. 22 Article 4340
The use of cation-exchange membranes as electrolytes for lithium metal batteries can prevent the formation of lithium dendrites during extended cycling and guarantee safe battery operation. In our study, the Nafion-212 membrane in lithium form solvated by a mixture of ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate (EC-PC) was used as an electrolyte in a lithium metal ...
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Stenina I., Novikova S., Voropaeva D. et al., Batteries 2023 Vol. 9 No. 8 Article 407
All-solid-state lithium batteries are a promising alternative to commercially available
lithium-ion batteries due to their ability to achieve high energy density, safety, and compactness. Electrolytes
are key components of all-solid-state batteries, as they are crucial in determining the batteries’
efficiency. Herein, the structure of LiM2(PO4)3 (M = Ti, Ge, Zr) and lithium-ion migration mechanisms
are introduced as well as ...
Added: January 23, 2024
Trofimov Y. A., Minakov A. S., Krylov N. A. et al., Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics 2023 Vol. 508 No. 1 P. 1–5
In many types of ion channels, certain internal surface areas of their transmembrane pores are lined with non-polar residues forming a kind of "belts" of hydrophobicity. When a channel resides in a closed/inactivated state, this prevents spontaneous diffusion of water and ions through the membrane. At the same time, when a channel is activated and, ...
Added: February 21, 2023