Yury Gogotsi was the guest of the new episode of Thinking in Dark Times, a podcast series by http://UkraineWorld.org. Listen to the podcast: 🎧 https://on.soundcloud.com/aF4ZP

On November 30, Professor Gogotsi will present “MXenes and the Era of 2D Materials by Design” at the meeting of the Joseph Priestley Society at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia and Online. Registration is free: https://www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events/mxenes-and-opening-the-era-of-2-dimensional-materials-by-design/ 

Drexel University’s Research Magazine featured two articles covering DNI research this summer! “Power Patch for Wearable Tech” features the JMC A paper co-authored by DNI group members Alex Inman, Tania Hryhorchuk, Lingyi Bi, and other collaborators. The series “Battery Science: Charging Forward” includes a story called “The Great Conductor” that covers MXene research. Check out…

Prof. Yury Gogotsi was quoted in a New Scientist article story about Massachusetts Institute of Technology research showing a way to create energy-storing concrete. A subject matter expert, Gogotsi weighs in. Read the article here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2385500-energy-storing-concrete-could-form-foundations-for-solar-powered-homes/

A new book, “MXenes: From Discovery to Applications of Two-Dimensional Metal Carbides and Nitrides”, edited by Yury Gogotsi, is not available for purchase!  The complete list of contents and multiple chapters are available for reading in the preview version of this 1100-page on Google Books.  Read more: https://books.google.fr/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=ViLEEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Gogotsi&ots=Skrv_mvRC-&sig=xiL51BYbbqFJ9I6CtUHBlAKzGII&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Gogotsi&f=false

DNI post-doc alum and co-author of the first MXene paper, Prof. Junjie Niu, in the news for inventing a new material – a self-cleaning coating that could be applied to commercial products such as eyeglasses, building glass, car windshields and more! Read more: https://uwm.edu/engineering/niu-gets-patent-for-self-cleaning-coating-could-be-applied-to-windows-glasses-windshields-and-more/

Professor Yury Gogotsi was quoted in a June 9, 2023 Assignment Point post about his research on using a coating of MXene to create thermal materials that can block or trap infrared radiation. Read more: https://assignmentpoint.com/infrared-radiation-can-be-used-via-mxene-spray-coating-for-heating-or-cooling/

Congratulations to the Drexel University Class of 2023 and a special congratulations to our group members who graduated on June 15th!  Dr. Mark Anayee (PhD), Adam Goad (MS), Kateryna Shevchuk (MS), Nastya Morozova (MS), and Mykhailo Yelipashev (MS) graduated from Drexel University with degrees in Materials Science and Engineering.   The AJ Drexel Nanomaterials Institute could…

Our MESC+ program alum, Marcelo Andrade, who performed his MS thesis research at DNI, and his professor, Dr. Tierry Brousse, surprised Prof Gogotsi with the “MXene Song” after his plenary lecture in Nantes at the 2nd German-French Summer School on High-Power Devices. You can listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0a0N-3wziM 

We are excited to congratulate the recipients of the The Electrochemical Society 2023 Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship and ECS Summer Fellowships – two of the five fellowships were awarded to our group!  Dr. Ruocon (John) Wang received the Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship for postdoctoral research on “Investigating Simultaneous Hydrogen Production and Storage in MXenes.” and…