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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/1.4/xsd/JATS-archive-oasis-article1-4-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanotechnologies in Construction: A Scientific Internet-Journal</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic">2075-8545</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">ООО &quot;Центр новых технологий &quot;НаноСтроительство&quot;</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15828/2075-8545-2026-18-4-537-544</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">PMJDVU</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading"><subject>CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS SCIENCE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Classification of chemical elements according to the electronic structure of their atoms</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2718-9539</contrib-id><name><surname>Gusev</surname><given-names>Boris V.</given-names></name><bio><p>Dr. Sci. (Technics), Full Professor; Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President</p></bio><email>info-rae@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Terteryan</surname><given-names>Alexander S.</given-names></name><bio><p>Research Fellow</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><city>Moscow</city><country>Russian Federation</country><institution>Russian Academy of Engineering</institution></aff><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-08-22"><day>22</day><month>08</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>537</fpage><lpage>544</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-06-02"><day>02</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2026-08-18"><day>18</day><month>08</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2026 Boris V. Gusev, Alexander S. Terteryan</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Boris V. Gusev, Alexander S. Terteryan</copyright-holder><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)</ext-link> License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanobuild.ru/en_EN/journal/Nanobuild-4-2026/537-544.pdf" xlink:title="URL">https://nanobuild.ru/en_EN/journal/Nanobuild-4-2026/537-544.pdf</self-uri><abstract><p>It is widely acknowledged that the development of chemistry, both historically and in the present day, is fundamentally rooted in D.I. Mendeleev&apos;s discovery and the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, which has been in use for over 150 years. This study proposes a novel conceptualization of chemical elements structured as a three-dimensional matrix. This approach enables the prediction of new elements, including the determination oftheir nuclear masses and electron shell configurations. New regularities concerning the cyclic and block structures of horizontal periods have been formulated, while the structure of vertical groups and their physical interpretation have been refined. The findings indicate that the Periodic Law fundamentally relies on the system of two equations. According to these equations, block energy increases cyclically, approaching near-zero values from negative ones in the “8s” block. The authors propose that the existence of chemical elements in nature culminates with the “8s” block. Thus, the total number of chemical elements that can exist in nature is evidently 120.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Electronic structure of atoms</kwd><kwd>atomic orbitals</kwd><kwd>sublevel energies</kwd><kwd>periodicity and block structure</kwd><kwd>quantum numbers</kwd><kwd>electronic characteristics of levels and sublevels (orbitals)</kwd><kwd>prediction of new elements</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>This research was carried out using the authors&apos; personal funds.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation>1. Korolkov D.V. Fundamentals of inorganic chemistry. Moscow: Prosveshchenie; 1982. (In Russian).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="ref2"><label>2</label><mixed-citation>2. Borshchevsky A.Ya. Structure of atomic particles. Textbook, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow; 2010. (In Russian).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="ref3"><label>3</label><mixed-citation>3. 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