May 30, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic).  Thirty-four of Europe’s top chemistry teachers, including two Nobel laureates and 21 PhD students from across the EU, gathered at the Brussels Metropole Hotel to recreate the iconic image made in 1927 during the Conference International Solvay on electrons and photons.…

Professor Gogotsi has accepted a visiting professorship at Sumy State University, Ukraine in the Department of Nanoelectronics to support the students and faculty in Ukraine. Professor Gogotsi will offer lectures online this fall.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) produced a video about our work on MXenes for electrochemical energy storage that won a Horizon Prize last year:https://vimeo.com/user121198295/review/684140645/c16924203b  Thanks to all colleagues, former students, and post-docs who contributed to this work over the past decade. 

Prof. Yury Gogotsi’s talk in the Energy & Sustainability Webinar Series lectures is now available on Youtube. To watch Prof. Yury Gogotsi’s lecture, please visit the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjV-ZVeYz8Q

DNI group member and Fullbright Postdoctoral Scholar, Mohit Saraf, is contributing to the MRS Meeting Scene blog this week during the MRS Spring Meeting 2022 in Honolulu, Hawai’i! In his first post, Mohit covers Yury Gogotsi’s talk, “Synthesis of 2D Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes)” during the first day of the MXene Symposium.   Read…

Twelve members of the DNI group have traveled to Honolulu, Hawai’i to participate in the MRS Spring Meeting 2022! This year’s meeting hosts the first MXene Symposium with great speakers from around the world (including the attendees from the group!).  

Alumna Olha Mashtalir  was selected as one of Drexel’s 40 Under 40 for 2022. Her contributions to development of MXenes while at Drexel were recognized by the Journal of Laboratory Automation as a Top 10 breakthrough for 2013. The research has been further picked up by scientific community all over the world, and the materials…

The April 2022 Materials Research Society of Serbia features an interview with Yury Gogotsi, Chair of the International Advisory Committee of YUCOMAT. Read the interview to learn more about Yury’s thoughts on the YUCOMAT 2022 conference, biomedical applications of MXenes, and his position regarding participation of Ukrainian and Russian scientists.  Click here to download the…

Visiting Scholar and Marie Curie Global Fellow Laura Fusco has been selected as one of the 600 most qualified young scientists worldwide who will have the invaluable opportunity to attend the 𝟳𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘂 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 dedicated to Chemistry and to spend an inspiring week with more than 30 Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.  DNI…

Yury Gogotsi Ranked 16th in the World and 11th in the United States in the 2022 Edition of the Ranking of Top 1,000 Scientists in the field of Materials Science by Research.com! This list of leading scholars is designed to offer the academic community more visibility and exposure to the influential research contributions made by…