Luminescent carbon nanomaterials (Light-emitting carbon quantum nanostructures)

Head of Laboratory

Ushakova, Elena V

PhD in Physics and Mathematics
Publications
122
Citations
2593
h-index
30
Publications
117
Citations
2697
h-index
31
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Lab team

The laboratory conducts research on the physical and chemical properties of carbon nanosystems, the development and creation of nanomaterials based on carbon nanoparticles with the required output characteristics for a new generation of highly efficient innovative technologies and devices of optoelectronics and photonics. The main task of the laboratory is to study the features of optical and nonradiative transitions and the mechanisms of energy dissipation of elementary excitations in luminescent carbon nanomaterials and composites based on them.

  1. Absorption spectroscopy
  2. Raman spectroscopy
  3. Luminescence
  4. Luminescence lifetime
  5. Fluorescence microscopy
  6. Colloidal synthesis
Elena Ushakova 🥼 🤝
Head of Laboratory
Cherevkov, Sergei A
Sergei Cherevkov 🤝
Senior Researcher
Alexander Mitroshin 🤝
Research Engineer
Irina Arefina 🤝
PhD student
Sofia Karamysheva 🤝
PhD student
Yuliya Timkina 🤝
PhD student

Research directions

Carbon dots for photovoltaics

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Carbon dots for photovoltaics
Methods for changing the position of energy levels are being developed. The optical properties of materials for photonics devices are being investigated.

Red and BIC-emitting carbon nanoparticles

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Red and BIC-emitting carbon nanoparticles
Research is underway in the field of carbon nanoparticles with optical transitions in the red and near infrared regions of the spectrum. Such nanoparticles are promising in biological applications, including imaging and sensorics.

Chiral carbon nanoparticles

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Chiral carbon nanoparticles
Research is underway to develop methods for obtaining optically active carbon nanoparticles by post-synthetic surface treatment with chiral molecules and one-pot synthesis in the presence of chiral molecules.

Publications and patents

Алексей Юрьевич Дубовик, Александр Васильевич Баранов, Вера Александровна Кузнецова, Данил Александрович Куршанов, Елена Владимировна Ушакова, Михаил Александрович Баранов, Виктория Александровна Осипова, Сергей Александрович Черевков
RU2769756, 2022
Алексей Юрьевич Дубовик, Александр Васильевич Баранов, Данил Александрович Куршанов, Михаил Александрович Баранов, Кирилл Вадимович Богданов, Елена Владимировна Ушакова, Сергей Александрович Черевков
RU2733917, 2020

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Lab address

Санкт-Петербург, Кронверкский просп., 49
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