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Changbai Mountain Friendship Award
Congratulations to Prof. Yury Gogotsi, who a received a Changbai Mountain Friendship Award from the vice-governor of Jilin Province at the National Day reception for foreign experts in Changchun, China. See some photos from the ceremony below.
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2017 Energy Storage Materials Award
Professor Yury Gogotsi has won the 2017 Energy Storage Materials Award, which is awarded by the journal Energy Storage Materials. The Award will be presented to Professor Gogotsi at the ICEnSM 2017 (2017 International Conference on Energy Storage Materials), which will be held in Shenzhen, China, on Nov. 18-21, 2017. The award, which is sponsored…
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Just Squeeze In — Drexel Researchers Discover When Spaces Are Tight, Nature Loosens Its Laws
It turns out that when they’re in a hurry and space is limited, ions, like people, will find a way to cram in — even if that means defying nature’s norms. Recently published research from an international team of scientists, including Drexel University’s Yury Gogotsi, PhD, shows that the charged particles will actually forgo their…
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ISI Hot Papers
5 of our papers published within the past year are currently among ISI Hot Papers (placed in the top 0.1% of papers in its academic field). 57 papers from our group are in the top 1% (ISI Highly Cited). Those are very impressive numbers showing the highest quality and great impact of the work done by the Nanomaterials…
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NMG Alumni at Jilin University
Two NMG Alumni are currently faculty at Jilin University in China. Assoc. Prof. Yu (Alex) Gao and Asst. Prof. Yohan Dall’Agnese are working on the China Nano initiative at Jilin in collaboration with Drexel University. Congratulations to our alumni!
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Recipe for Safer Batteries — Just Add Diamonds
While lithium-ion batteries, widely used in mobile devices from cell phones to laptops, have one of the longest lifespans of commercial batteries today, they also have been behind a number of recent meltdowns and fires due to short-circuiting in mobile devices. In hopes of preventing more of these hazardous malfunctions researchers at Drexel University have…
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Best Poster Prize to Tyler Mathis
Congratulations to PhD student, Tyler Mathis, for winning the Best Poster prize for Symposium 7 (Supercapacitors from Materials and Processes to Applications) during the ISE meeting last week.