Layered Solids Group (LSG)

Newest MAX phase group member Joseph Halim starts as a PhD student January 2012. He will work with researchers at Linkoping University to characterize the electrical properties of 2-dimensional “MXenes.”

2011 was a productive year for the MAX phase research group. Collectively, the group published ~27 papers over the past 12 months – that’s about one every two weeks!

PhD student Michael Naguib presented some of his work on MXenes at the MRS fall meeting, which was held November 28 – December 2, 2011 in Boston, MA.

Michael’s poster is entitled “Two-Dimensional Nanocrystals of Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides Produced by Exfoliation of MAX Phases”. Co-authors are Dr. Murat Kurtoglu, Dr. Volker Presser, Dr. Junjie Niu, Min Heon, and Prof. Yury Gogotsi from the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Dr. Jun Lu and Prof. Lars Hultman from IFM at Linkoping University, and Babak Anasori and Prof. Michel W. Barsoum of the MAX phase group. Click poster image below to see pdf.<sup>*

*</sup>All pdf files are copyright protected. Please email barsoum [at] drexel [dot] edu to obtain access.

Congratulations to Darin Tallman! He successfully defended his PhD thesis proposal today.
Read his proposal abstract here.

Ph.D. student Babak Anasori won poster award in Acta Materialia Gold Medal Symposium honoring Dr. Narayan at MS&T 2011 in Columbus, OH.

Click poster for pdf.*

The award-winning poster entitled “Investigation of the Formation and Extraordinary Thermal Stability of Mg Nano-Grains in Ti₂AlC-Mg Composites” presents some of Babak’s work including XRD, SEM and TEM on Mg-Ti₂AlC composites. The winners were selected by the organizing committee and Dr. Narayan.

*PDF files are copyright protected. Please contact Dr. Barsoum at barsoumw at drexelDOTedu to receive a password for downloading files.

Babak Anasori’s SEM image has made it to the top ten images for the NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Contest!

Click here to vote for the image – votes must be in by October 28, 2011.

Thank you for voting!

PhD student Babak Anasori won second place in the ACerS Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition at the 2011 Materials Science and Technology 2011 Conference & Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio. As second place winner, Babak received a certificate and a monetary award of $50.

The award-winning poster is entitled “MXenes: Two-dimensional crystals,” and the co-authors are PhD student Michael Naguib, Dr. Yury Gogotsi from the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and Dr. Michel Barsoum.

Matthias Agne, a second year Drexel undergraduate student majoring in Materials Engineering, has joined the MAX phase research group.

Bio:

Welcome to the group, Matthias!

Babak Anasori and Dr. Michel Barsoum will be giving talks at the upcoming Materials Science and Technology 2011 Conference & Exhibition, to be held October 16-20, 2011 in Columbus, Ohio. They will be giving talks several talks on nanoindentation techniques.

For more information about the meeting, go here.

PhD student Babak Anasori’s image has made it to the front cover of Advanced Materials (Volume 23, Issue 37). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image shows graphene-like 2D crystals of Ti₃C₂ called MXene. The full article, published in that issue, describes the exfoliation of the MAX phase Ti₃AlC₂ by etching the aluminum out in HF.

For more information on the cover image, follow links for:

Issue page
Image abstract
Cover pdf

For more information on the full article, go here.