Congratulations to Yohan Dall’agnese, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation today.
MRS 2016 Spring Meeting
Our team including Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Babak Anasori, Mengqiang Zhao, Katie Van Aken, Amanda Pentecost, Evelyn Ren, and Sankalp Kota will attend the MRS 2016 Spring Meeting in Phoenix next week. All together, we have a dozen of posterand oral presentations, including a couple of invited talks.
Dr. Babak Anasori will be receiving the MRS Postdoctoral Award.This annual award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who are showing exceptional promise and excellence in scientificresearch, leadership, advocacy, outreach, or teaching, during their postdoc assignment. Babak was chosen from a very large group of nominees“for innovative research on 2D materials, creative and artistic ways of presenting science, dedication to and love of teaching, and student mentoring.” The award consists of an engraved trophy and a cash prize of $2,000. This is a highly competittive major internationalaward. Congratulations to Babak!
Katie van Aken will be acting as Students Ambassador for the MRS Spring 2016 Meeting, a major recognition and important service to the Society, and she will also be speaking at the Student Chapters Luncheon.
Chemistry World: RSC monthly magazine
Babak’s paper has been highlighted in Chemistry World, RSC monthly magazine:
Congratulations to Babak and his co-authors!
Collaboration with FIRST EFRC
Our work in collaboration with the FIRST EFRC team has been featured in the following press release:
The original paper referenced in the release is: Come, Y. Xie, M. Naguib, S. Jesse, S. V. Kalinin, Y. Gogotsi, P. R. C. Kent, N. Balke, Nanoscale elastic changes in two-dimensional Ti3C2Tx (MXene) pseudocapacitive electrodes, Advanced Energy Materials, 1502290 (2016)
Drexel’s 40 Under 40
Congratulations to DNI alum, Dr. Davide Mattia and Dr. Michael Naguib, who were recently named to Drexel’s 40 Under 40. Davide is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath and Michael is currently a Winger Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. View the full list here.
American Chemical Society Meeting
Prof. Yury Gogotsi is attending the American Chemical Society meeting where he will be giving an invited talk on carbon-electrolyte interfaces as well as meeting with fellow editors of ACS Nano.
Press Release in Materials Views China
Congratulations to Xiuqiang on his new paper in Advanced Energy and Materials. View the Chinese press release here.
Drexel President’s Report 2015
Drexel University has released the President’s report for 2015. Prof. Yury Gogotsi and the new KAIST-NNFC Partnership in the report. View the full report here.
Control of Electronic Properties of 2D Carbides (MXenes) by Manipulating Their Transition Metal Layers
Our paper has been published online in Nanoscale Horizons, a new high-profile journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Once again, congratulations to Babak and his co-authors!
