Our Lab Profile published by the leading materials journal (Impact Factor >30) Materials Today (Elsevier): It was published in parallel with Professor Yury Gogotsi’s 2021 Materials Today Innovation Award Winner announcement. DNI lab profile: https://www.materialstoday.com/lab-profile-yury-gogotsi-drexel-university

Professor Yury Gogotsi has been selected to receive one of the most prestigious and exclusive awards in the field of materials for his pioneering work on novel carbide and nitride nanomaterials. He follows other outstanding recipients – Stan Whittingham (for battery materials), Russell Dupuis (for MOCDV), and Michael Grätzel (for solar energy materials). Congratulations to Professor Yury…

The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) is a 2-year program in English with opportunities to work with 7 partnering universities and 4 research centers around the world. The program covers several fields including nanomaterials, inorganic chemistry, characterization techniques, intellectual property, and more! The application and more information can be found of the MESC+ website:…

Congratulations to our undergraduate group member Joshua Gonzalez for joining Drexel University’s Pennsylvania-Zeta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society! He was initiated into the society on Friday December 3rd, “being recognized as one who has conferred honor upon the university by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as a student in engineering.”

DNI Visiting Researcher and Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellow, Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, was awarded a L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science as a Rising Talent for her PhD work in Senegal on November 25, 2021 in Rwanda. Congratulations, Maty!

Third-year BS/MS Drexel Materials Science &  Engineerinng student Marley Downes, a research assistant in the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, has been named the recipient of a 2021 Drexel Student Life Scholarship Award. Congratulations, Marley!

Voting for 2021 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art Competition is open! Your vote matters, and anyone with MRS account can vote. Voting closes at 12:00 pm ET on December 8, 2021. Winners will be announced at 4:00 pm ET on December 8, 2021. For instruction on how to vote, please visit the following link:…

MXene research secured 4 out of 5 spots for Drexel University on Clarivate’s Highly Cited ResearcherTM 2021 list. Alumni Maria Lukatskaya, Michael Naguib, and Volker Presser, and Professors Michel Barsoum and Yury Gogotsi (in Chemistry and Materials Science) were each recognized. Congratulations to all Drexel alumni who made the list!

Professor Yury Gogotsi will be presenting at the KAIST Symposium organized by fellow ACS Nano editor, Prof. Il-Doo Kim, on Wednesday, November 17th from 7:15pm to 8:00pm (KST) For more information, please download the program for the symposium (link below). https://research.coe.drexel.edu/mse/nanomaterials/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2025Calendar-DNIweb-2.pdf2021/11/KAIST-EMS2021_AbstractCVBook_Nov.16-18.pdf

Can aqueous zinc or zinc-ion batteries and pseudocapacitors provide a safe alternative and much faster charging?  Lithium battery expert Professor Yury Gogotsi explains in the Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/business/cars-battery-fires-fear-law-suits-gm-bolt-20211031.html?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_email_traffic&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=