Three of our PhD students were honored at the Drexel University Graduate College awards.  Kyle Matthews was awarded the Outstanding Mentorship Award & Lingyi Bi received the 2nd Place Award for Research Poster Presentation from the DEGS in April. Also nominated was Danzhen Zhang for the Research Excellence Award!  Congratulations, all!

Our friends from PRISMS (Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science) came for a daylong visit to learn more about MXenes, Materials Science and Engineering (Drexel Materials Drexel Engineering) and Drexel University.   These young scholars met DNI director Yury Gogotsi who introduced them to the University and our lab. After a brief lesson on the…

On Sunday, May 21st, Dr. Michael Naguib will receive the Young Alumni Emerging Leader Award at the Drexel University Alumni Awards Ceremony. Each year the Drexel Alumni Board of Governors recognizes alumni who have gone above and beyond in their professions, the community, and within Drexel.   Michael joined Yury Gogotsi’s lab and Drexel Materials…

Congratulations, Yury Gogotsi, on being awarded the Khwja Fareed Innovation Award 2023 during the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Conference on Physical Sciences and Engineering ICPSE-23 at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan!

Discovered at Drexel University in 2011 and the cornerstone of DNI research, MXenes are the new focus of Drexel’s Ambition Can’t Wait campaign!  MXenes are a family of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides that are conductive, durable, impermeable to electromagnetic radiation, show promise in sensors, exhibit super-supercapacitance and MORE. These nanoflakes can…

Yury Gogotsi gave an interview in the MRS Serbia May Newsletter about the YUCOMAT’s past, the future, and the upcoming YUCOMAT 2023 conference that you can read on the MRS-Serbia website. Link to interview: https://mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/interview-with-yury-gogotsi

Please submit your abstracts on MXenes and other frontier materials, and join us in sunny Herzeg Novi. The conference is very affordable and the quality of science is excellent. The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended through May 31, 2023.  Link to conference abstract submission details: https://mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/general-information-2023/abstract-instructions-2023  

First, they had a great visit to KIST and Yury delivered a seminar to a packed room. There are about 20 people working on MXenes at KIST, covering topics from the synthesis of MAX and #MXene to surface modifications, composites, electrocatalysis (H2, ORR, CO2, NH3), hydrogen storage, and EMI shielding. Many thanks to their host…

Recently published in Graphene and 2D Materials, Yury Gogotsi’s latest opinion piece looks at pay to publish practices and what that might mean for the sharing of scientific information. Read more here.

A big congratulations to Dr. Amanda Sfeir on the defense of her thesis, “Towards the Development of Novel Mo-based Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis” at the University of Lille in Lille, France and Dr. Pol Sallés Peramon on the defense of his thesis, “Unfolding the challenges to prepare epitaxial complex oxide membranes by chemical methods” at…