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Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Bugrov</surname><given-names>A. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Alexander Nikolaevich Bugrov- Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov; Department of Physical Chemistry</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">bugrov.an@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Губанова</surname><given-names>Г. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gubanova</surname><given-names>G. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Galina Nikolaevna Gubanova – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">gubanovagn@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1637-8537</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Примаченко</surname><given-names>О. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Primachenko</surname><given-names>O. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Oleg Nikolaevich Primachenko – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">alex-prima@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1939-2660</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Гофман</surname><given-names>И. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gofman</surname><given-names>I. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Iosif Vladimirovich Gofman – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">gofman@imc.macro.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4823-0695</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Иванкова</surname><given-names>Е. М.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivan’kova</surname><given-names>E. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Elena Mikhailovna Ivan’kova – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ivelen@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8470-8994</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Попова</surname><given-names>Е. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Popova</surname><given-names>E. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Elena Nikolaevna Popova – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">men682003@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1571-209X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кириленко</surname><given-names>Д. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kirilenko</surname><given-names>D. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Demid Aleksandrovich Kirilenko</p><p>St. Petersburg, 194021</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">demid.kirilenko@mail.ioffe.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9930-4666</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лаврентьев</surname><given-names>В. К.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lavrentyev</surname><given-names>V. K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Victor Konstantinovich Lavrentyev – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">lavrentev1949@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4644-0445</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Власова</surname><given-names>Е. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Vlasova</surname><given-names>E. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Elena Nikolaevna Vlasova – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">evl021960@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5468-3909</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кононова</surname><given-names>С. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kononova</surname><given-names>S. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Svetlana Viktorovna Kononova – Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov</p><p>St. Petersburg, 199004</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">svetlanavkononova@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>NRC “Kurchatov Institute” – PNPI – IMC; Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (ETU “LETI”)</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>NRC “Kurchatov Institute” – PNPI – IMC</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Ioffe Institute</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>6</issue><fpage>850</fpage><lpage>864</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Bugrov A.N., Gubanova G.N., Primachenko O.N., Gofman I.V., Ivan’kova E.M., Popova E.N., Kirilenko D.A., Lavrentyev V.K., Vlasova E.N., Kononova S.V., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бугров А.Н., Губанова Г.Н., Примаченко О.Н., Гофман И.В., Иванкова Е.М., Попова Е.Н., Кириленко Д.А., Лаврентьев В.К., Власова Е.Н., Кононова С.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bugrov A.N., Gubanova G.N., Primachenko O.N., Gofman I.V., Ivan’kova E.M., Popova E.N., Kirilenko D.A., Lavrentyev V.K., Vlasova E.N., Kononova S.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1624">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1624</self-uri><abstract><p>Zr1−xYxO2−0.5x nanoparticles were introduced into the sulfonic acid form of the Nafion-type perfluorinated copolymer prior to membrane formation to improve its water retention, thermal stability, and proton conductivity. Since the conditions under which nanoparticles are formed can significantly influence their size, phase composition, morphology, and surface chemistry, various approaches to filler synthesis were considered in this study. It was found that among the wet-chemical methods used to produce zirconia-based nanoparticles, solvothermal synthesis offers the most promise in terms of increasing the surface proton conductivity of composite membranes. This method ensures small size, large specific surface area, and high hydrophilicity of the nanoparticles. Consequently, their incorporation into a Nafion-type perfluorinated copolymer increases the membrane’s moisture retention and improves to its proton-conducting properties. In the case of Zr1−xYxO2−0.5x nanoparticles formed under solution combustion conditions, their more hydrophobic surface did not contribute to an increase in the moisture content of the perfluorinated copolymer, but did allow its maximum operating temperature to be increased by 20 °C.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Наночастицы Zr1-xYxO2-0.5x были введены в сульфокислотную форму перфторированного сополимера Нафион типа перед формированием мембраны для улучшения ее водоудерживающей способности, термической стабильности и протонной проводимости. Поскольку условия формирования наночастиц могут существенно влиять на их размер, фазовый состав, морфологию и химию поверхности, в работе были рассмотрены разные подходы по синтезу наполнителя. Было установлено, что среди мокрохимических методов, которые применялись для получения наночастиц на основе диоксида циркония, наиболее перспективным с точки зрения повышения поверхностной протонной проводимости композитных мембран является сольвотермальный синтез. Данный метод обеспечивает малый размер, большую удельную площадь поверхности и высокую степень гидрофильности наночастиц, вследствие чего их введение в перфторированный сополимер Нафион типа повышает влагоудержание мембраны и способствует улучшению ее протонпроводящих свойств. В случае наночастиц Zr1-xYxO2-0.5x сформированных в условиях растворного горения, их более гидрофобная поверхность не способствовала повышению содержания влаги в перфторированном сополимере, но позволила повысить его максимально возможную рабочую температуру на 20°С.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>протонная проводимость</kwd><kwd>импедансная спектроскопия</kwd><kwd>стабилизированный иттрием диоксид циркония</kwd><kwd>глицин-нитратное горение</kwd><kwd>золь-гель</kwd><kwd>гидротермальный синтез</kwd><kwd>сольвотермальный метод</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>proton conductivity</kwd><kwd>impedance spectroscopy</kwd><kwd>yttria-stabilized zirconia</kwd><kwd>glycine-nitrate combustion</kwd><kwd>sol-gel</kwd><kwd>hydrothermal synthesis</kwd><kwd>solvothermal method</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The authors thank D. A. Gavrilova, M. A. Gavrilova, and N. S. Kormiltsina, students of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University), for their assistance in determining the conditions for producing nanoparticles. The authors also thank senior researcher G. V. Vaganov and senior laboratory assistant V. D. Vavilova from the NRC “Kurchatov Institute” – PNPI – IMC for measuring the contact angle of the composite membranes and determining their bulk proton conductivity, respectively. X-ray diffraction analysis was performed using equipment from the Engineering Center of the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. TEM studies were performed using equipment of the Federal Joint Research Center “Material science and characterization in advanced technology” supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The research work was carried out within the framework of State Programs of Branch of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B. P. 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