Professor Yury Gogotsi’s talk will focus will on MXenes and how they complement the array of available 2D materials (graphene, BN, TMDs, etc.). The webinar will be on June 16, 2021, at 9 AM CST. To register for the webinar, please visit the following link: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&partnerref=Direct&eventid=3182894&sessionid=1&key=4C2DEF8711F4E7045CF038C1321554F3&regTag=&V2=false&sourcepage=register

To mark the tenth anniversary of the discovery of MXenes, DNI members, Dr. Armin VhaidMohamamdi and Prof. Yury Gogotsi together with Prof. Johanna Rosen from Linköping University (Sweden), have published a forward-looking review article in Science magazine, discussing fundamentals, properties, and applications of MXenes, the progress in the field, ways to overcome the hype accompanying new discoveries, as…

This Virtual Issue celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first report on the discovery of the Ti3C2 MXene and follows the publication of a Virtual Issue on MXenes in the leading nanoscience journal, ACS Nano, in April 2021 https://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/vi/mxenes. Understanding that more than a hundred stoichiometric structures and an infinite number of MXene solid solutions can be made…

Event date: June 26th – June 27th, 2021 Professor Yury Gogotsi will be giving a TED Talk at this year’s TEDxDrexelU conference to be held on June 26-27. In light of the theme, Odyssey, he will be speaking about his scientific discovery-driven odyssey from Ukraine to America via Western Europe and Japan. To reserve your…

Congratulations to Professor Yury Gogotsi and his team of 20+ researchers for winning the Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. This award recognizes team science and all co-authors of the key papers on the subject have been included. The winners include our current (Tyler Mathis) and former group members, collaborators from Paul Sabatier…

Our undergraduate co-op student, Jessica Waite, was awarded with a Dr. Robert O. Hutchins Endowed Chemistry Prize Wednesday, June 2nd. She also gave an excellent presentation about her undergraduate research during the award ceremony. Congratulations to Jessica and her hard work!

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, who was a key member of DNI for many years, is now a tenured Associate Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Congratulations to Dr. Vadym Mochalin and his hard work!

Marley Downes’ work about “Quantitative Investigation on Lithium Polysulfide Adsorption of MXene Compositions for High Performance Li-S Batteries” was selected to be displayed at the Undergraduate Week of Excellence coordinated by Undergraduate Research & Enrichment Programs in the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Her poster will be on display all week at the following…

Two of our alumni, Kelsey Hatzell and Babak Anasori, were recognized among the Drexel 40 under 40 program this year. Both Kelsey Hatzell and Babak Anasori are each in an independent faculty position. They follow Maria Lukatskaya (2020), Pri Narang (2019), Kristy Jost (2018), and several earlier recipients of this recognition. To read about the…

Event date: May 27th, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. EET (GMT +2) Professor Yury Gogotsi will give a talk titled “From Discovery of New (Nano)materials to Advanced Technologies or Adventures of a Ukrainian in America” on May 27th, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. EET (GMT +2). The lecture is not going to be in English. Professor Yury Gogotsi…