Chronicle of our Lab

Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy of Nanosystems in Liquid Media

Chronicle of our Laboratory

28/11/2025
A.M. Vervald presented the results of our work on the topic "Super-bright polymeric carbon dots from citric acid and ethylenediamine: stages of synthesis and multiluminescence" at the Moscow seminar "Graphene Derivatives", held at the N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences.

20-24/10/2025
Our colleagues (Sergey Burikov and Kirill Laptinskiy) will be presenting reports at the International conference PhysiсA.SPb!

14-19/09/2025
Our colleagues (Kirill Laptinskiy and Luiza Utegenova) will be presenting oral reports at the 17th International Conference on Pulsed Lasers and Laser Applications – AMPL-2025!

05-07/09/2025
Young scientists of our lab took part in the Nuclear Festival on September 5-7, 2025, as part of a team from the SINP MSU. Sun, pines, Volga; sports, lectures, music. We wish everyone at least equally colorful holidays!

02-04/07/2025
From July 2–4, 2025, the 13th All-Russian Congress of Young Scientists' Councils and Student Scientific Societies was held in Ufa, bringing together over 2,000 participants from across the country. Kirill Laptinsky was one of the speakers at the roundtable discussion "Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in the Hands of Modern Teachers and Researchers: The Experience of Leading Russian Organizations."

02-04/07/2025
Our young colleagues participated in the 9th International Conference on Deep Learning in Computational Physics! Luiza Utegenova presented a paper titled "Domain Adaptation of Neural Networks for Natural Water Diagnostics Using Raman Spectra," and Gavriil Kupriyanov presented a paper titled "Application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Solving an Inverse Spectroscopy Problem in the Creation of a Multimodal Metal Ion Nanosensor Based on Carbon Dots."

30/06-05/07/2025
Ivan Plastinin, a member of our laboratory, participated in the 20th International Youth Conference on Luminescence and Laser Physics (LLPh-2025) in Irkutsk, where he presented an oral report entitled "Diagnostics of the Environment in Micellar Nanoreactors Using Laser Spectroscopy."

23/05/2025
At the meeting of the Academic Council of the MSU Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, awards were presented to the institute's employees. Among the laureates was K.A. Laptinsky, who was awarded the departmental award of the Ministry of Science and Education - the "Young Scientist" badge!

15/04/2025
Our young studients Volkov Ramil and Buzanov Kirill took part in the international conference "Lomonosov-2025" with their works "Laser spectroscopy of ZnS nanoparticles during their synthesis in reverse microemulsions" and "Application of domain adaptation for diagnostics of natural waters by Raman spectroscopy"

01/04/2025
Our extension project, "Development of photoluminescent multimodal nanosensors based on carbon dots using machine learning methods," has received support from the Russian Science Foundation!

05/01/2025
Our work "Toward carbon dots from citric acid and ethylenediamine, part 1: Structure, optical properties, main luminophore at different stages of synthesis" is published in Carbon Trends!

01/01/2025 Happy New Year to you! We wish you new scientific success!

28/12/2024
Congratulations to our students Anna Fedyanina, Gavriil Kupriyanov, Anisiya Korepanova and Luiza Utegenova on winning the Basis Foundation competition for scholarships for graduate and senior students of the Physics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University!

21/12/2024
Our work "Manifestation of Donor–Acceptor Properties of N-Doped Polymer Carbon Dots During Hydrogen Bonds Formation in Different Solvents" is published in Polymers!

02/12/2024
The project "New nanoagents for photonics and biomedicine based on lanthanide complexes" under the leadership of S.A. Burikov received support from the Russian Science Foundation!

27-29/11/2024
Laptinsky Kirill and Chugreeva Galina took part in the IV Congress of Young Scientists!

21-25/10/2024
Our student Kupriyanov Gavriil took part in the international conference "Neuroinformatics-2024" with the work "Solving the inverse problem of spectroscopy using Kolmogorov-Arnold networks" and was awarded 1st place in the competition of young specialists for the Academician Andrey Leonovich Mikaelyan Prize.

23-27/09/2024
Our young colleagues presented their reports at the International Conference Saratov Fall Meeting-2024, which was held from September 23 to 27 at Saratov State University.

23-27/09/2024
Our laboratory team took part in the Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT) 2024 Conference!

16-20/09/2024
Our laboratory team took part in the All-Russian scientific conference with international participation "Yenisei Photonics - 2024". Congratulations to our employee Alexey Verwald, who received a diploma for the best report in the category "Young Scientists"!

10/08/2024
Our work "Laser diagnostics of micellar nanoreactors in ZnSO4/water/AOT/heptane reverse microemulsion system" is published in the Journal of Molecular Liquids!

23/07/2024
The Basis Foundation announced the winners of the competition "Scholarships - Physics Department (spring)" for applicants to the master's and postgraduate programs of the Physics Department of Moscow State University. Maria Khmeleva is the winner! Congratulations!!!

01-05/07/2024
Our team took part in the International Conference “Nanocarbon and Diamond”!

23-26/06/2024
Visiting seminar of friendly laboratories.

19/06/2024
HOORAY!!! Winning the Presidential Scholarship competition for graduate students, which was established last year for the first time. Galya Chugreeva became a recipient of a Presidential scholarship for the entire duration of her postgraduate studies.
Congratulations!!! There are only 500 such scholarships in Russia!!!

30/05/2024, 03/06/2024
We congratulate our 2nd year master's students Kirill Kozhushny and Maria Khmeleva on the excellent defense of their qualifying thesis!

15/05/2024
We congratulate our 4th year students Anisiya Korepanova, Gavriil Kupriyanov and Luiza Utegenova on the successful defense of their coursework!

12-26/04/2024
Our Laboratory took part in the traditional XXXI International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduate Students and Young Scientists “Lomonosov-2024”. T.A. Dolenko is the chairman of the subsection "Optics part 1".

29/02/2024
Our article has been published S. Burikov, E. Filippova, V. Proydakova, S. Kuznetsov, V. Voronov, N. Tabachkova, and T. Dolenko. The influence of concentrations of sensitizers and activators on luminescence kinetics parameters of up-conversion nanocomplexes NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+. Photonics, 11(3):228–241, 2024.

12/01/2024
Congratulations to Alexey Vervald on winning the open public competition “Seminarist” to award prizes to the best teachers leading seminar classes at the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the autumn semester 2023, conducted by the Theoretical Physics and Mathematics Advancement Foundation "BASIS"!

22/12/2023
Laptinskiy Kirill, Chugreeva Galina and Korepanova Anisia were awarded a scholarship from Lomonosov Moscow State University for young employees, graduate students and students who have achieved significant results in teaching and research activities for 2024!

18-20/12/2023
On December 18, at the scientific conference-school "Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry and Materials Science"Galina Chugreeva presented a poster presentation "Application of neural networks for the creation of a multimodal carbon ion nanosensor in water".

15/12/2023
We congratulate Chugreeva Galina, Khmeleva Maria, Korepanova Anisia and Kupriyanov Gavriil on winning the Basis Foundation competition for scholarships for graduate and senior students of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University!

23-27/10/2023
Galina Chugreeva presented the report "Application of convolutional neural networks for creation of photoluminescent carbon nanosensor for heavy metals detection" at the conference "Neuroinformatics 2023".

23-27/10/2023
Our employees Burikov Sergey, Plastinin Ivan and Verwald Alexey, as well as student Utegenova Luiza took part in the International Scientific Conference "PhysicA.SPb".

25-29/09/2023
Laboratory staff and students presented their reports at the International Conference Saratov Fall Meeting-2023, held from September 25 to 28 at Saratov State University. Congratulations to Kirill Buzanov on his debut!

17-21/09/2023
T. Dolenko gave an invited presentation at the international conference Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT-23) “Laser spectroscopy of carbon nanoparticles in the creation of multimodal nanosensors” in Samara.

10-15/09/2023
Participation of our Laboratory in the XVI International Conference on Pulsed Lasers and Laser Applications - AMPL-2023, Tomsk.

25/08/2023
An article has been published based on the results of joint work with the group of Prof. A. Manshina from the Institute of Chemistry of the State University of St. Petersburg.

21-31/08/2023
Galina Chugreeva took part in the Skoltech Machine Learning Summer School (SMILES) on August 21-31 in Belokurikha Gornaya and made a poster presentation at the school's conference.

08/08/2023
The project "Development of a spectral method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of surface groups of carbon nanoparticles" under the lead of Alexey Vervald received support from the RSF! Congratulations!

05-09/06/2023
Our employees Kirill Laptinskiy and Ivan Plastinin took part in the Russian Conference and School of Young Scientists on Topical Problems of Raman Spectroscopy "Raman Scattering - 95 Years of Research"!

23/05/2023
We congratulate our students Galina Chugreeva and Ekaterina Filippova on the successful defense of their master's theses!

11/04/2023
Our students Anisiya Korepanova, Luiza Utegenova, Gavriil Kupriyanov and Ramil Volkov took part in the Lomonosov-2023 International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists. Luiza's report, devoted to the study of the influence of preprocessing of Raman spectra by aqueous solutions of inorganic salts on the accuracy of diagnosing aqueous media using artificial neural networks, was chosen as the best according to the results of the discussion of the jury of the subsection Optics.
Congratulations!

01/03/2023
Maria Khmeleva became a laureate of the scholarship competition held by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation!

25/01/2023
Tatyana Dolenko was awarded the honorary title of Honored Research Fellow of Moscow University

11/01/2023
Olga Sarmanova, Galya Chugreeva and Kirill Laptinskiy were awarded a scholarship from Lomonosov Moscow State University for young employees, graduate students and students who have achieved significant results in teaching and research activities, for 2023!

24/11/2022
Our article (Carbon Dots with Up-Conversion Luminescence as pH Nanosensor) is published in Applied Sciences!

01-03/11/2022
Our employees and post-graduate students of our laboratory took part in the work of the XXVI Youth Scientific School "Coherent Optics and Optical Spectroscopy" held in Kazan.

27/10/2022
Our article (Implementing neural network approach to create carbon-based optical nanosensor of heavy metal ions in liquid media) is published online in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy!

26-30/09/2022
Employees and students of our Laboratory took part in the annual international conference "Saratov Fall Meeting", which is the largest conference in the field of biophotonics in Russia. As part of the "XXVI Saratov Autumn Meeting 2022", the latest developments and applications of optical and laser technologies in biology and medicine, coherent optics of random and ordered media, materials and environmental science, spectroscopy and molecular modeling were considered.

19-25/09/2022
On September 19-25, the staff and students of our Laboratory took part in the All-Russian conference with international participation "Yenisei Photonics". This year's plenary and sectional sessions reviewed the results of theoretical and experimental research in the following areas: new optical materials; coherent optics and nonlinear photonics; photonic crystals, metamaterials and topological phases; biophotonics.

23/06/2022
We congratulate Alexey Vervald on the defense of his PhD thesis!

31.05-1.06/2022
We congratulate our students on defending their bachelor's thesis!

14/05/2022
Our papers (Dependence of photoluminescence of carbon dots with different surface functionalization on water pH and Influence of excitation intensity on the luminescent properties of NaYF4:Yb/Tm nanopowders) were published online in Optics and Spectroscopy!

11-22/04/2022
Participation of our Laboratory in the International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov-2022".

14/04/2022
We congratulate our colleague Ivan Plastinin on successfull defending his PhD thesis!

31/03/2022
The project "Elaboration of photoluminescent multimodal nanosensors based on carbon dots using machine learning methods" by T. Dolenko is supported by RSF! Congratulations!

26/01/2022
Sarmanova Olga became a finalist in the competition for scholarships named after A.D. Sakharov.

11/01/2022
Khmeleva Maria was awarded a scholarship from Lomonosov Moscow State University for young employees, graduate students and students who have achieved significant results in teaching and research activities for 2022!

01/01/2022 Happy New Year to you! We wish you new scientific success!

2021

23/12/2021 The results of the 2022 competitions for the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists - candidates of sciences and doctors of sciences and leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation - have been summed up. Among the winners is Kirill Laptinsky with the project "Creation of a scientific platform for the development of remote express methods for diagnosing aquatic environments using spectroscopy and machine learning algorithms." Congratulations!

17/12/2021 We congratulate Khmeleva Maria on winning the Basis Foundation competition for scholarships for graduate and senior students of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University!
19/08/2021 Our article "Machine learning algorithms to control concentrations of carbon nanocomplexes in biological medium via optical absorption spectroscopy: how to choose and what to expect?" is accepted in Applied Optics!

01/07/2021 Fund "Basis" announced the winners of the competition "Scholarships - Faculty of Physics (spring)" for those entering the magistracy and postgraduate studies of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Among them are Galya Chugreeva and Katya Filippova! Congratulations to the winners!!!

13/05/2021 Our work "Coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy of nanodiamond–lysozyme interactions in water" is published in the Laser Physics!

03/05/2021 Our work "Development of the fluorescent carbon nanosensor for pH and temperature of liquid media with artificial neural networks" is published in the Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy! Our TOC picture is on the journal front!
11/01/2021 Laptinskiy Kirill was awarded a MSU scholarship to young employees, graduate students and students who have achieved significant results in teaching and research activities for 2021!

11/01/2021 Our work "Laser diagnostics of reverse microemulsions: influence of the size and shape of reverse micelles on the Raman spectrum on the example of water / AOT / cyclohexane system" is published in the Journal of Molecular Liquids!

2020

07/12/2020 We congratulate our students G. Chugreeva and E. Filippova on winning the Basis competition for scholarships for graduate and senior students of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov!

10-27/11/2020 Participation of our Laboratory in the International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov-2020". The reports of our students A. Fedyanina and M. Khmeleva were noted by the jury as the best in the "Optics" section!

11-16/10/2020 Participation of our Laboratory in the Conference "SPIE/COS Photonics Asia Digital Forum 2020".

28/09/2020-02/10/2020 Participation of our Laboratory in the Conference "SARATOV FALL MEETING 2020".

3/07/2020 We congradulate Laptinskiy Kirill on his victory in competitive selection within the ambitious Presidential research funding program with his project "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy for the development of biomedical nanoagents with high efficiency and safety"

30/06/2020 Our paper Boron-Doped Nanodiamonds as Anticancer Agents: En Route to Hyperthermia/Thermoablation Therapy written by Alexey M. Vervald, Sergey A. Burikov, Alexander M. Scherbakov, Oleg S. Kudryavtsev, Nina A. Kalyagina, Igor I. Vlasov, Evgeny A. Ekimov, and Tatiana A. Dolenko has been published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

23/06/2020 Our paper In vitro temperature sensing with up-conversion NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+-based nanocomposites: Peculiarities and pitfalls written by Olga E. Sarmanova, Sergey A. Burikov, Kirill A. Laptinskiy, Olga D. Kotova, Ekaterina A. Filippova, Tatiana A.Dolenko has been published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

8/06/2020 We congratulate Olga Kotova on defending her bachelor's thesis!

18/05/2020 We congratulate Anna Fedyanina and Maria Khmeleva who has been successfully accepted to our chair of Quantum Electronics after passing a tough competition!

11/05/2020 We congratulate Olga Sarmanova on winning the Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

16/03/2020 We congratulate Alexey Vervald on joining the Department of Quantum Electronics of the Physics Department of Moscow State University!

15/03/2020 Our article "Absolute luminescence quantum yield for nanosized carbon particles in water as a function of excitation wavelength" was published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy!

27/01/2020 Our article “Bilayer Adsorption of Lysozyme on Nanodiamonds in Aqueous Suspensions” was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C!

15/01/2020 Our article "Features of self-organization of sodium dodecyl sulfate in water-ethanol solutions: Theory and vibrational spectroscopy" was published in the Journal of Molecular Liquids!

2019

02/12/2019 We congratulate Laptinskiy Kirill on his victory in the competition for the best fundamental research projects carried out by leading youth groups!
28-30/10/2019 We congratulate Ekaterina Filippova on her first presentation at the conference "XIX Annual Youth Conference with International Participation of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences-Universities" BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS ", for which she was awarded with the Certificate of Merit for the best report!
10/26/2019 We congratulate Tatiana Dolenko on receiving the title of Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University of Technology!
16-18/10/2019 Our group visited the 11th International Conference on Nanomaterials: Research and Application of NANOCON'2019 in Brno, Czech Republic.
26/09/2019 We congratulate Olga Sarmanova on her admission to the graduate school of the Physics Department of Moscow State University
23-27/09/2019 Our group visited Symposium: Optics & Biophotonics 2019 (SFM'2019) in Saratov, Russia.
1-5/07/2019 Our group visited 14th International Conference Advanced Carbon NanoStructures (ACNS'2019) in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
23/05/2019 We congratulate Olga Sarmanova on the excellent defense of her master’s thesis “The luminescent properties of lanthanide-based complexes and their use in Biomedicine"!
18/05/2019 Olga Kotova became the Best undergraduate student! Congratulations!!!
05/04/2019 Our paper "Nanodiamonds and surfactants in water: hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions" has been published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science!

21/03/2019 On Thursday, March 21, at 17.30 in room 4-07 a laboratory seminar will be held. Agenda: 1. K.A. Laptinskiy will have a report on the conference in Hasselt. 2. Submission of abstracts for the ACNS2019.

28/02/2019 On Thursday, February 28, at 17.30 in room 4-07 a laboratory seminar will be held. Kirill Laptinskiy: "Quantum yield of carbon nanoparticles in aqueous suspensions". The results are planned to be presented at the international conferences on diamond in Belgium (Hasselt, March 13-15, 2019)
21/02/2019 On Thursday, February 21, at 17.30 in room 4-07 of the Housing of Nonlinear Optics (HNO) a seminar of our laboratory will be held.

Our guests are partners from the laboratory of S.V. Patsaeva. Report by A. Kharcheva "Luminescence of organo- and water-soluble europium complexes with N-heterocyclic ligands" based on the materials of the thesis.

0x/01/2019 New laboratory website is now working!

01/01/2019 We congratulate our colleagues on the coming New Year!

2018

20/12/2018 We congratulate our colleague Kirill Laptinskiy on successfull defending his PhD thesis!
29/10/2018 We congratulate Olga Sarmanova with her exelent mark for their course works and wonderfull presentation!
30/05/2018 We congratulate Ekaterina Vervald on defending her Master theses!!!

2017

2016

9-11/03/2016 We congratulate T. Dolenko and S. Burikov who returned from the conference in Belgium!
25/02/2016 We congratulate Plastinin Ivan and Vervald Alexey who have become PhD students!
25/01/2016 We congratulate Kirill Laprinskiy who won scholarship of M.V. Lomonosov for the young scientists!

2015

28/12/2015 We congratulate Alexey Vervald, Ernest Mazurin and Ivan Plastinin with exelent marks for diploma work!

We congratulate Kirill Laprinskiy who won scholarship of President of Russian Federation!

We congratulate Sergey Burikov who won award for young talented students and scientists of MSU 2015!

22-25/09/2015 Saratov Fall Meeting SFM'15 - Symposium "Optics and Biophotonics -III" with Alexey Vervald, Ivan Plastinin and Khusainova Kate. Ivan won an award for his poster presentation!

01/09/2015 We congratulate everyone with the Day of knowledge!

08/06/2015 We congratulate Alexey Vervald, Ernest Mazurin and Ivan Plastinin with their exelent marks for their course works!

2014

01/11/2014 We congratulate Sergey Burikov who won Deripeska award for young talented students and scientists!

26-31/10/2014 ICNN 2014: XII International Conference on Neural Networks.

23-26/09/2014 Saratov Fall Meeting SFM'14 - Symposium "Optics and Biophotonics -II".

30/08 - 07/09/2014 International White Sea Student Workshop on Optics of Coastal Water.

13-18/06/2014 International conference NANO 2014

20/05/2014 We congratulate Ekaterina Khusainova who has been successfully accepted to our chair of Quantum Electronics!

19/05/2014 We congratulate Alexey Vervald, Ernest Mazurin and Ivan Plastinin with their exelent marks for their course works!

01/03/2014 We congratulate Kirill Laptinsky! He is Ph. D. student now!

06/02/2014 We congratulate Alexey Vervald, Ernest Mazurin and Ivan Plastinin who returned from expedition to the WSBS.

2013

23/12/2013 We congratulate Kirill Laptinskiy with his exelent mark for his diploma work!

19-26/11/2013 Conference at Kursk.

6/11/2013 We congratilate Tatiana Laptinskaya with getting an award from MSU rector.

15/08/2013 We welcome Kirill Laptinskiy from Italy (Internship).

29/04/2013 We congratulate Kirill Laptinskiy with his exelent mark for his course work!

2012

06/12/2012 Now you can find us in the room 412-a.

25/11/2012 We congratulate Alexey Vervald, Ernest Mazurin and Ivan Plastinin who has been successfully accepted to our chair of Quantum Electronics after passing a tough competition!

28-31/10/2012 Tatiana Dolenko, Sergey Burikov and Igor Vlasov vizited our partners in Finland. Future collaboration was discussed.

29/05/2012 We congratulate Sergey Burikov, who has been promoted to Senior Researcher!

01/05/2012 We congratulate our graduate Dima Karpov, who has received two degrees in America: Master of Science in Physics and Master in Public Management. We wish him further success!

21/05/2012 We congratulate Kirill Laptinsky, who has successfully defended his course thesis with an excellent mark.

2011

1/03/2011 Our project "Laser analyzer of liquids with complex software" headed by S.A.Burikov has won in the All-Russian competition for support of high-technology innovation youth projects, held by Russian Academy of Sciences and by National Association of Innovations and Development of Information Technologies (NAIRIT).

2010

23/12/2010 We congratulate Sergey Burikov, who has been awarded the scholarchip of M.V.Lomonosov MSU for talented young researchers and lecturers. HURRAY!

23/12/2010 We congratulate Kirill Laptinsky, who has been successfully accepted to our chair of Quantum Electronics after passing a tough competition.

1/09/2010 our teacher Victor Vladimirovich Fadeev celebrates his anniversary. Our warmest congratulations on his birthday! We wish him good health and further success in his creative activities.

18/01/2010 an international scientific seminar devoted to 145th anniversary of D.I.Mendeleev defending his Doctor thesis "On mixing of alcohol with water".

2009

24/07/2009 a special scientific seminar of the group has been held. An invited talk has been given by Prof. E.Arunan (Bangalore, India). The topic of his talk was "Hydrogen bond and hydrogen bond radii: A microwave spectroscopist's view." Colleagues from MSU Physical Department and from SINP MSU took part In the discussion.