Month: July 2017

  • Nick Trainor Wins 2017 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship

    Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Nick Trainor, who has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship, chosen by the Awards Committee of the Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society. Presentation of a plaque and the $2000 scholarship check will take place during the ACerS Electronics Division business meeting at the MS&T conference in…

  • Congratulations to STAR Student William Reil

    William Reil, STAR undergraduate student, has been selected as the winner of the Unexpected Discoveries Presentation Competition. He received an award certificate and $100 Amazon gift card for his presentation titled “The MXene dog”. This competition is designed and run by Dr. Babak Anasori, to promote critical thinking and encourage thinking outside the box. The competition…

  • Congratulations to Evelyn!

    Congratulations to Evelyn Ren, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis today.

  • Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides

    Our MXene paper has been selected as one of the most significant publications in the field of low-dimensional materials published in ACS Nano in the past decade: http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/vi/acsnano10_reddimensionalmater.html?ref=ancac3Feature Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides Michael Naguib, Olha Mashtalir, Joshua Carle, Volker Presser, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Yury Gogotsi*, and Michel W. Barsoum* ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (2), pp 1322–1331 DOI: 10.1021/nn204153h Congratulations to all…

  • ISEE CAP 2017

    Prof. Gogotsi and colleagues attend the 5th International Symposium on Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors (ISEECap), July 10-14, 2017 in Jena, Germany. Prof. Gogotsi presented a Keynote Lecture titled, “Freestanding carbon composite electrodes for electrochemical capacitors.”

  • New Nature Energy Article

    Congratulations to our team of our current and former students and post-docs led by Dr. Maria Lukatskaya on publishing a very important article that opens new avenues for high-rate, high-energy storage not only for MXenes, but for pseudocapacitive materials in general:M. R. Lukatskaya, S. Kota, Z. Lin, M.-Q. Zhao, N. Shpigel, M. D. Levi, J. Halim, P.-L. Taberna, M. W. Barsoum,…