Research Expertise

Carbon Dots
Chiral Nanomaterials
Optical Spectroscopy

Elena Ushakova’s recent research interests focus on R&D of novel nanostructured materials for a wide spectrum of applications from biomedicine to photovoltaics. She also has many years of experience in optical spectroscopy, as absorption, luminescence, and circular dichroism, design of carbon nanomaterials, semiconductor quantum dots, and their hybrids with plasmonic nanoparticles and organic/inorganic matrices.

Honors and Awards

“L’Oreal-UNESCO “For women in science” (2021);
“Grant of the Russian President for young scientists” (2017-2018);

Recent Publications

1. Kuznetsova, V.*, Coogan, á., Botov, D., Gromova, Y., Ushakova, E. V.*, Gun'ko, Y. K.* (2024). Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in Nanomaterials to Chiral Nanostructures. Advanced Materials, 2308912.
2. V.S. Tuchin, E. A. Stepanidenko, A. A. Vedernikova, S. A. Cherevkov, D. Li, L. Li, A. D?ring, M. Otyepka, E. V. Ushakova*, and A. L. Rogach (2024). Optical Properties Prediction for Red and Near-Infrared Emitting Carbon Dots Using Machine Learning. Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202310402
3. Zhang, B., Wang, B., Ushakova, E. V., He, B., Xing, G., Tang, Z., Rogach, A.L.*, and Qu, S.* (2023). Assignment of Core and Surface States in Multicolor‐Emissive Carbon Dots. Small, 19(31), 2204158.
4. Kosolapova, K. D., Koroleva, A. V., Arefina, I. A., Miruschenko, M. D., Cherevkov, S. A., Spiridonov, I. G., Zhizhin, E.V., Ushakova, E.V.*, Rogach, A. L. (2023). Energy-level engineering of carbon dots through a post-synthetic treatment with acids and amines. Nanoscale, 15(19), 8845-8853.
5. D?ring, A., Ushakova, E. V., Rogach, A. L.* (2022). Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications. Light: Science & Applications, 11(1), 75.
6. Das, A.*, Kundelev, E. V., Vedernikova, A. A., Cherevkov, S. A., Danilov, D. V., Koroleva, A. V., Zhizhin, E.V., Tsypkin, A.N., Litvin, A.P., Baranov, A.V., Fedorov, A.V., Ushakova, E.V.*, Rogach, A. L. (2022). Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules. Light: Science & Applications, 11(1), 92.