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X. Han, Z. Qi, V. Kundrat, H. Li, Z. Li, X. Guo, P. Mao, W. Zheng, S. Hou, R. Liu, H. Wu, P. Wang, A. Zak, W. Liu, R Tenne, Y. Guo (2026)
Very-large-scale mimetic optogenetic synapses for physical reservoir computing
Nature Communications, 2026

S. Dolić, V. Kojić, A. Zak, A. Laikhtman, H. Mo, T. Čižmar, I. Erceg, L. Klobučar, I.S.S. Rakić, K. Juraić, A. Gajović (2026)
Enhancing the electrical performance of formamidinium perovskites through WS2 nanotube incorporation
ACS Omega, 11(18), (26411-26420), 2026

M. Krishnappa, S. Ghosh, P. Siva, Y. Feldman, I. Lapsker, O. Brontvein, T. Livneh, J.I. Martinez, J.A. Alonso, A. Zak, Phase-pure MoS2 nanotubes with controlled crystallinity, templated by pre-prepared high-aspect-ratio MoO3 nanowhiskers
J. of Materials Chemistry C, 2026

K. Wang, B. Geiss, R. Geiss, J.R. Neilson, A. Zak, J.B. Sambur (2026)
Quantifying chiral handedness of core-shell inorganic nanotubes via electron microscopy and diffraction
Nanoscale, 18(18), (9826-9833), 2026

R. Rosentsveig, Y. Feldman, V. Kundrat, I. Pinkas, A. Zak, R. Tenne (2025)
Long-term aging of multiwall nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles of WS2
J. of Solid State Chemistry, 346, (Art. No.125259), 2025

E. Faella, L. Lozzi, L. Camilli, A. Zak, F. Giubileo, A. Di Bartolomeo, M. Passacantando (2025)
Light effects on graphene/tungsten disulfide nanotubes/graphene heterostructure
Nanotechnology, 36(32), 325501, 2025

A. Colosimo, A. Crut, N. Lascoux, C. Panais, A. Casto, F. Vialla, V. Demontis, L. Martini, P. Rosi, E. Rotunno, G.C. Gazzadi, M. Beleggia, M. Krishnappa, A. Zak, F. Beltram, F. Rossella, F. Vallée, N. Del Fatti, F. Banfi, P. Maioli (2025)
Single MoS2 nanotube experimental optical extinction cross section
The J. of Physical Chemistry C – Special Issue “Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander Festschrift”
129(10), (5086-5094), 2025

J.I. Martinez, A. Laikhtman, A. Zak, M. Sezen, J.A. Alonso (2024)
Implantation of Gallium into layered WS2 nanostructures facilitated by hydrogenation
Small, 20(30), (2312235-1–2312235-10), 2024

A. Dutta, K. Manjunath, H. Porat, R. Lavi, A. Lal, M. Kumar Yadav, V. Mandić, G. Makrinich, A. Laikhtman, A. Zak, A. Borenstein (2024)
Plasma-treated 1D transition metal dichalcogenides for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction
J. of Materials Chemistry A, 12(37), (25176-25185), 2024

A. Pelella, A. Kumar, K. Intonti, O. Durante, S. De Stefano, X. Han, Z. Li, Y. Guo, F. Giubileo, L. Camilli, M. Passacantando, A. Zak, A. Di Bartolomeo, WS2 Nanotube Transistor for Photodetection and Optoelectronic Memory Applications. Small 2024, 20, 2403965.

A. Pelella, L. Camilli, F. Giubileo, A. Zak, M. Passacantando, Y. Guo, K. Intonti, A. Kumar, A. Di Bartolomeo (2025)
Ambipolar conduction in gated tungsten disulphide nanotube
Nanoscale, 17, (2052-2060) , 2024

S. Dey, A. Roy, S.B. Mujib, K. Manjunath, A. Zak, G. Singh (2024)
Addressing irreversibility and structural distortion in WS2 inorganic fullerene-like nanoparticles:
Effects of voltage cut-off experiments in beyond Li+-ion storage applications
ACS Omega, 9(15), (17125-17136), 2024

S.R. Kadam, K. Manjunath, S. Ghosh, M.B. Sreedhara, A. Neyman, A. Upcher, E. Nativ Roth, L. Houben, A. Zak, A.N. Enyashin, R. Bar-Ziv, M. Bar-Sadan (2024)
Nanotubes and other nanostructures of VS2, WS2 and MoS2: Structural effects on the
hydrogen evolution reaction
Applied Materials Today, 39 (Article No.102288), 2024

V. Kundrát, L. Novák, K. Bukvišová, J. Zálešák, E. Kolíbalová, R. Rosentsveig, M.B. Sreedhara, H. Shalom, L. Yadgarov, A. Zak, M. Kolíbal, R. Tenne (2024)
Mechanism of WS2 nanotube formation revealed by in Situ/ex Situ imaging
ACS Nano, 18(19), (12284-12294), 2024

V. Kundrát, R. Rosentsveig, K. Bukvišova, D. Citterberg, M. Kolíbal, K. Shachar, I. Pinkas, O. Yaffe, A. Zak, T. Reshef (2023)
Submillimetre-long WS2 nanotubes: The pathway to inorganic buckypaper
Nano Letters, 23(22), (10259-20266), 2023

Sonjoy Dey, Krishnappa Manjunath, Alla Zak, Gurpreet Singh (2023) WS2 Nanotube-Embedded SiOC Fibermat Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Omega 2023, 8, 11, 10126–10138

P.N. Immanuel, S-J Hiang, P. Taank, A. Goldreich, J. Prilusky, A. Byregowda, R. Carmieli,
H. Shalom, A. Leybovich, A. Zak, N. Aggarwal, K.V. Adarsh, L. Yadgarov (2023)
Enhanced photocatalytic activity of Cs4PbBr6/WS2 hybrid nanocomposite
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 5(2), (2300193-1–2300193-11) ,2023

Niu, Y., Li, L., Qi, Z. et al. 0D van der Waals interfacial ferroelectricity. Nat Commun 14, 5578 (2023).

Eimear Magee, Fengzai Tang, Marc Walker, Alla Zak, Reshef Tenne and Tony McNally. 2023. Silane functionalization of WS2 nanotubes for interaction with poly(lactic acid). Nanoscale 15 (16), 7577-7590

E. Magee, F. Xie, S. Farris, A. Dsouza, C. Constantinidou, A. Zak, R. Tenne, T. McNally, Polyelectrolyte Complexation of Chitosan and WS2 Nanotubes. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 2300501.

A. Dutta, O. Breuer, K. Manjunath, R. Minnes, A. Zak, A. Borenstein (2023)
1D transition-metal dichalcogenides/carbon core-shell composites for the hydrogen evolution reaction
J. of Materials Chemistry A, 11(40), (21806-21816), 2023

Paukov, M.I.; Goldt, A.E.; Komandin, G.A.; Syuy, A.V.; Yakubovskiy, D.I.; Novikov, S.; Tenne, R.; Zak, A.; Nasibulin, A.G.; Arsenin, A.V.; Volkov, V.; Burdanova, M.G. Comparison of Optoelectronic Properties of Doped and Pristine Nanotubes Based on Carbon and Tungsten Disulfide. Mater. Proc. 2022, 9, 28.

Yue, L.; Xu, D.; Wei, Z.; Zhao, T.; Lin, T.; Tenne, R.; Zak, A.; Li, Q.; Liu, B. Size and Shape’s Effects on the High-Pressure Behavior of WS2 Nanomaterials. Materials 2022, 15, 2838.

Sun, Y., Xu, S., Xu, Z. et al. Mesoscopic sliding ferroelectricity enabled photovoltaic random access memory for material-level artificial vision system. Nat Commun 13, 5391 (2022).

Shuangying Wei*, Marco Serra, Stefanos Mourdikoudis, Huaijuan Zhou, Bing Wu, Lukáš Děkanovský, Jiří Šturala, Jan Luxa, Reshef Tenne, Alla Zak, and Zdeněk Sofer*. Improved Electrochemical Performance of NTs-WS2@C Nanocomposites for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 41, 46386–46400

Magee, Eimear & Tang, Fengzai & Ozdemir, Esra & Walker, Marc & Luccio, Tiziana & Kornfield, Julia & Zak, Alla & Tenne, Reshef & McNally, Tony. (2022). WS 2 Nanotubes as a 1D Functional Filler for Melt Mixing with Poly(lactic acid):Implications for Composites Manufacture. ACS Applied Nano Materials.

M.B. Sreedhara, S.S. Sinha, A. Zak, L. Yadgarov, R. Tenne (2022)
Review: Nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles from layered transition metal dichalcogenides: Why do they form and what is their significance?
Zeitschrift fűr anorganische und allgemeine Chemie (ZAAC) - J. of Inorganic and General Chemistry 648(15), (e202200128-1–e202200128-10), 2022

Kamanina, N.; Toikka, A.; Barnash, Y.; Zak, A.; Tenne, R. Influence of Surface Relief on Orientation of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Polyimide Doped with WS2 Nanotubes. Crystals 2022, 12, 391.

Sudarson S. Sinha, Lena Yadgarov*, Sokhrab B. Aliev, Yishay Feldman, Iddo Pinkas, Pallellappa Chithaiah, Saptarshi Ghosh, Alexander Idelevich, Alla Zak*, and Reshef Tenne* (2021) MoS2 and WS2 Nanotubes: Synthesis, Structural Elucidation, and Optical Characterization. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 11, 6324–6340

Saptarshi Ghosh, Gilad Otorgust, Alexander Idelevich, Omri Regev, Igor Lapsker, Dan Y. Lewitus, Alla Zak, Reinforcement of poly (methyl methacrylate) by WS2 nanotubes towards antiballistic applications, Composites Science and Technology, Volume 207, 2021

Rocher, L.; Ylitalo, A.S.; Di Luccio, T.; Miscioscia, R.; De Filippo, G.; Pandolfi, G.; Villani, F.; Zak, A.; Menary, G.H.; Lennon, A.B.; Kornfield, J.A. Interaction of Poly L-Lactide and Tungsten Disulfide Nanotubes Studied by In Situ X-ray Scattering during Expansion of PLLA/WS2NT Nanocomposite Tubes. Polymers 2021, 13, 1764.

Heming Xia, Xinyu Chen, Song Luo, Feng Qin, Alexander Idelevich, Saptarshi Ghosh, Toshiya Ideue, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Alla Zak, Reshef Tenne, Zhanghai Chen, Wei-Tao Liu*, and Shiwei Wu (2021) Probing the Chiral Domains and Excitonic States in Individual WS2 Tubes by Second-Harmonic Generation. Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 12, 4937–4943

Golan, O.; Shalom, H.; Kaplan-Ashiri, I.; Cohen, S.R.; Feldman, Y.; Pinkas, I.; Ofek Almog, R.; Zak, A.; Tenne, R. Poly(L-lactic acid) Reinforced with Hydroxyapatite and Tungsten Disulfide Nanotubes. Polymers 2021, 13, 3851.

Devesh Chandra Binwal, K. Pramoda, Alla Zak, Manjodh Kaur, Pallellappa Chithaiah, and C. N. R. Rao* (2021) Nanocomposites of 1D MoS2 with Polymer-Functionalized Nanotubes of Carbon and Borocarbonitride, and Their HER Activity. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, 4, 3, 2339–2347

S. Ghosh, V. Brüser, I. Kaplan-Ashiri, R. Popovitz-Biro, S. Peglow, J.I. Martínez, J.A. Alonso, A. Zak, Cathodoluminescence in single and multiwall WS2 nanotubes: Evidence from quantum confinement and strain effect, Applied Physics Reviews, 7(4), 2020 (041401).

H. Shalom T. Bendikov, Y. Feldman, N. Lachman, A. Zak, R. Tenne, Chemical control of the surface of WS2 nanoparticles, Chemical Physics Letters, 761, 2020 (138052).

A.K. Sonker, S. Roy, H.D. Wagner, A. Zak, X.M. Sui, R. Bajpai, Synergistic effect of crosslinking and dual reinforcement on the thermal and mechanical properties of polyvinyl alcohol, Polymer Composites, 2020, (1-10)

C. Pallellappa, S. Ghosh, A. Idelevich, L. Rovinsky, T. Livneh, A. Zak. Solving the "MoS2 nanotubes" synthetic enigma and elucidating the route for their catalyst-free and scalable production. ACS Nano, 14(3), 2020 (3004-3016)

Grillo, A., Passacantando, M., Zak, A., Pelella, A., Di Bartolomeo, A., WS2 Nanotubes: Electrical Conduction and Field Emission Under Electron Irradiation and Mechanical Stress. Small 2020, 16, 2002880.

S. Ghosh, V. Brüser, I. Kaplan-Ashiri, R. Popovitz-Biro, S. Peglow, J.I. Martínez, J.A. Alonso, A. Zak. Cathodoluminescence in single and multi-wall WS2 nanotubes: Evidence from quantum confinement. Applied Physics Reviews September 2020
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N.V. Kamanina, A.S. Toikka, Y.V. Barnash, L.O. Fedorova, R.M. Tarkan, Yu. A. Zubtcova, P.V. Kuzhakov, S.V. Likhomanova, A. Zak (2023)
Nematic liquid crystal-MoS2 nanoparticles innovative system for optoelectronic displays and modulators
Liquid Crystals and Their Application, 23(2), (52-62) ,2023

N.V. Kamanina, Yu. A. Zubtsova. A.S. Toikka, S.V. Likhomanova, A. Zak, R. Tenne, Temporal characteristics of liquid crystal cell with WS2 nanoparticles: Mesophase sensitization and relief features Liquid Crystals and Their Application (Russian Journal), 20(1), 2020 (34-40)

Sinha, S. S., Zak, A., Rosentsveig, R., Pinkas, I., Tenne, R., Yadgarov, L., Size-Dependent Control of Exciton–Polariton Interactions in WS2 Nanotubes. Small 2020, 16, 1904390.

Sinha, S.S., Zak, A., Rosentsveig, R., Pinkas, I., Tenne, R. and Yadgarov, L. (2020), Nanotubes: Size-Dependent Control of Exciton–Polariton Interactions in WS2 Nanotubes (Small 4/2020). Small, 16: 2070022.

Y.J. Zhang, T. Ideue, M. Onga, F. Qin, R. Suzuki, A. Zak, R. Tenne, J.H. Smet, Y. Iwasa Letter: Enhanced intrinsic photovoltaic effect in tungsten disulphide nanotubes. Nature, 570, June 2019 (349-363

Miroslav Kolíbal*, Kristýna Bukvišová, Lukáš Kachtík, Alla Zak, Libor Novák, and Tomáš Šikola (2019) Formation of Tungsten Oxide Nanowires by Electron-Beam-Enhanced Oxidation of WS2 Nanotubes and Platelets. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 14, 9552–9559

Danica M. Simić, Dušica B. Stojanović, Mirjana Dimić, Katarina Mišković, Milica Marjanović, Zijah Burzić, Petar S. Uskoković, Alla Zak, Reshef Tenne, Impact resistant hybrid composites reinforced with inorganic nanoparticles and nanotubes of WS2, Composites Part B: Engineering, Volume 176, 2019

Macutkevic, J., Belovickis, J., Otorgust, G., Dodiuk, H., Kenig, S., Samulionis, V., Banys, J. and Zak, A. (2018), Broadband dielectric and ultrasonic properties of WS2 nanotubes/polyurethane composites. Polym. Compos., 39: 4477-4485.

Macchia, E., Zak, A., Picca, R., Manoli, K., Di Franco, C., Cioffi, N., . . . Torsi, L. (2018). Improved Performance p-type Polymer (P3HT) / n-type Nanotubes (WS2) Electrolyte Gated Thin-Film Transistor. MRS Advances, 3(27), 1525-1533.

Song-Jeng Huang, Wei-Yi Peng, Bojana Visic, Alla Zak, Al alloy metal matrix composites reinforced by WS2 inorganic nanomaterials, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 709, 2018, Pages 290-300

Feng Qin, Toshiya Ideue*, Wu Shi, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Masaro Yoshida, Alla Zak, Reshef Tenne, Tomoka Kikitsu, Daishi Inoue, Daisuke Hashizume, and Yoshihiro Iwasa* (2018) Diameter-Dependent Superconductivity in Individual WS2 Nanotubes. Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 11, 6789–6794