Drexel News posted a great article on our MXene work around MXene’s ability to absorb electromagnetic waves.  Read more here: https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2022/October/MXene-vadanium-electromagnetic-interference-absorption?fbclid=IwAR22ajx6Ojn8jZkfouhioluxxze-IMHqh7UEdbpRdY05Bp1n-xu7XadZ2GM  

Thanks to the excellent work of the current DNI team and former group members, Yury Gogotsi is now in the 37th position in the world and the 2nd in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in 2021 on Stanford’s list of highly cited researchers. Drexel University alumni Mohamed Alhabeb, Kathleen Maleski, Mykola Seredych, and Meikang Han are included…

Alberto Moscatelli of Nature penned an article on “The pull of the MXene vortex” covering the discovery, applications, and study of MXenes.  Read more here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01238-6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&fbclid=IwAR0DjRLuMJgq3RiOWqW1z94RMF8XBg_NFYiP0xY2_FiD5Flj1bClQ2Tq56c  

Professor Yury Gogotsi’s Google Scholar h-index has reached a symbolic milestone of 200! A huge congratulations to Prof Gogotsi who also thanks the numerous students, post-docs, visiting scientists and collaborators, who worked with him on solving important materials problems, discovery and characterization of new materials, and finding new applications for advanced materials. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tobmw7EAAAAJ&hl=en

Drexel University released an article titled “A Scientist Stands with Ukraine” which covers the work Yury Gogotsi has been doing since February to support Ukrainian science and scientists. Check out the article here: https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2022/September/gogotsi-ukraine

Drexel University produced a press release on our article “Oxycarbide MXenes and MAX phases identification using monoatomic layer-by-layer analysis with ultralow-energy secondary-ion mass spectrometry” published in Nature Nanotechnology.  Read the press release here: https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2022/September/SIMS-MXene-MAX-phase-discovery?fbclid=IwAR0j–lwhKn29XHgA1NPMRAbd0CCmocJUcGRJPGB6vMjFyHKT3UAnPOKcWM  Read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01214-0 

Professor Gogosti will give a seminar at UCLA on Friday, September 23, 2022 on the latest developments in the field of MXenes.

On September 13th three recent visitors to DNI from MESC+ completed their MS defenses and graduated on September 14th in Amiens, France!  Congratulations to Marcelo Andrade, Ervin Rems, and Jaehoon Choi!  The MESC+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree is a 2-year programme in Materials Science and Electrochemistry, fully taught in English, involving 5 Universities in 4 European…

Started in 2016 by Babak Anasori (PhD ‘14) when he was a research assistant professor in the DNI lab, Nanoartography features stunning colorized microscopy images and computational simulations from around the world. The deadline for entries is September 30 and voting for the people’s choice awards will begin shortly after that on Facebook. First place…

The very successful MXene Symposium at the spring MRS meeting in Honolulu, which was attended by 10 people from the AJ Drexel Nanomaterials group, was given 2-page coverage in the MRS Bulletin. Check “2022 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit celebrates materials research”:   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-022-00392-5