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• Dec 21, 2004: Paper (N. Naguib, H. Ye, Y. Gogotsi, A.G. Yazicioglu,
C.M. Megaridis, M. Yoshimura, Observation of water confined in nanometer
channels of closed carbon nanotubes, Nano Letters, 4 (11) 2237-2243, 2004) has
been featured in the Research News section for this December's Nano Today
supplement to Elsevier Science's Materials Today magazine. Moreover, the
simulated image produced by Dr. H. Ye appeared in the list of contents of the
journal.
• Nov 22, 2004: Dr. Yury Gogotsi was quoted in Coatings Magazine in an article
about the use of nanotechnology in enhancing paint and coatings. Coatings
Magazine serves Canada’s coatings manufacturing and industrial finishing
industries.
• Nov 11, 2004: Dr. Yury Gogotsi is featured in an article on his opinions and
predictions about nanotechnology in the September issue of Energies, a magazine
published by Total, a leading multinational energy company, which operates in
more than 130 countries. Gogotsi appears in this special issue of the
publication, along with Nobel laureates, discussing the future of research.
Energies is printed in full color in both French and English (180,000 copies
each) and can be found online at: http://www.total.com.
• Oct 28, 2004: The work of Dr. Gogotsi and his group featured today on
nanotechweb.org. The article discusses the work that Dr. Gogotsi’s group has
done with a group from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Tokyo
Institute of Technology on water-filled nanotubes. In the article entitled,
“Researchers watch water inside nanotubes,” Gogotsi discusses the impact of this
research, which has been published in Nano Letters. A photograph of Dr. Gogotsi
and postdoctoral researcher Haihui Ye accompanies the article.
• Oct 27, 2004: Two Drexel University start-ups (Y-Carbon and Magnetic
Biosystems) were selected as the top eight business ideas stemming from
nanotechnology in the First International Nanotechnology Business Idea
Competition, sponsored by the Institute for Technology Innovation,
Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (InTICE) at Case Western Reserve
University, in Cleveland, Ohio. For details, click here.
• Oct 19, 2004: The work of nanomaterials group is featured today on
nanotechweb.org. In the article entitled, "Researchers watch water inside
nanotubes", Prof. Gogotsi discusses the impact of this research, which has been
published in Nano Letters.
• Sep 9, 2004: Maria Pia Rossi received a travel award to attend and
participate the 7th New Jersey Symposiumon Biomaterial Science.
• Aug 17, 2004: Nanomaterials group received the Best poster award at 11the
International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics in San
Francisco, August 2-5, 2004 for the poster "Amorphization of Boron Carbide Under
Contact Loading" by Slava Domnich, Daibin Ge, and Tom Juliano, Yury Gogotsi.
• Aug 9, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi has been elected to the World Academy of Ceramics
(http://www.waceramics.org). This is an international professional organization
based in Italy that unites internationally renown scientists, engineers and
artists working in the ceramic field. He was elected as a Professional Member
(Academician) in the class of "Science"; 22 new members were elected this year
worldwide.
• July 19, 2004: Davide Mattia of the Nanomaterials Group received the Joseph
S. Mozino Scholarship for $8,000.
• July 12, 2004: Tom Juliano of the Nanomaterials Group received a prestigious
and very competitive National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship. Tom
will start his post-doctoral research at the Army Research Lab (ARL) in Aberdeen
after defending his thesis in September 2004.
• June 25, 2004: Nevin Naguib was accepted into a named post-doctoral position
at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to begin later this summer. She has
been named the U.S. Department of Energy Enrico Fermi Scholar and is one of only
two people in the Materials Science Division at Argonne who hold this named
position. The position is for one year with a possible extention for two years.
• June 2, 2004: John Chimola of nanomaterial group received the first place in
the College Of Engineering senior project design competition for his project on
supercapacitor made from carbide derived carbon.
• May 12, 2004: Tom Juliano of nanomaterial group received the TA Excellence
Award.
• May 4, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi received the 106 award at the Research Day 2004
ceremony for receiving more than 1 million dollars in research funding for the
year 2003.
• May 4, 2004: Nanomaterials group received the Best poster award at the
Research Day 2004 in business research initiative category for the poster
"P-Zero's Supercapacitors: Powering the New Millennium" by John Chimola, Ranjan
K Dash, Gleb Yushin, Varun Gupta, Prashant Singh, Yury Gogotsi.
• April 19, 2004: All three winners of the annual Ceramographic Competition of
the American Ceramic Society are from nanomaterials group. The entry presented
by Goknur Cambaz and Gleb Yushin "Conservation of Shape During Transformation of
beta-SiC to Carbon" was awarded the 1st place in the Combined Techniques
category. Svetlana Dimovski's entries "Oxidation of an AlN–HfB2 Ceramic
Composite" and "Formation of Aluminum Borate Whiskers Through Oxidation of an
AlN – HfB2 Ceramic Composite" received the 2nd place in the SEM category and the
3rd place in the Combined Techniques category,
• April 19, 2004: Sascha Welz, Prof. Gogotsi's former student (graduated last
fall - currently with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) presented his PhD research
at the Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco won a Gold Graduate Student Award
from the Materials Research Society for his work on carbide-derived carbon done
during his PhD study at UIC.
• April 14, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi was featured in a story published in the April
9, 2004 edition of Small Times about the evolution of nanotechnology. For
details, click here.
• March 31, 2004: Sascha Welz, Prof. Gogotsi's former student (graduated last
fall - currently with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) received a Graduate
Student Award from the Materials Research Society for his work on
carbide-derived carbon done during his PhD study at UIC. He will be presenting
his PhD research at the Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco, competing for the
Gold Award. Sascha is Prof. Gogotsi's second student to receive this prestigious
award in recent years, Slava Domnich having won the award in 1999.
• March 29, 2004: María Pía Rossi is the recipient of a 2004 National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This award is a highly competitive
national fellowships award and it covers three years of support.
• March 29, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi was quoted in an article on nanotechnology
published in the business section of this Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer. The
article discusses nanotechnology's potential for improving everyday products and
gives a brief history of the emerging technology.
• March 23, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi has been awarded an NSF-RET site. With this
award, he will bring teachers from local high-schools and community colleges to
Drexel and University of Pennsylvania for a summer research experience.
• March 16, 2004: Svetlana Dimovski and Gleb Yushin are pictured in the most
recent issue of Chemical Heritage (Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2004), the
newsmagazine of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF). The two are pictured in
an article about "Women in Chemistry," an exhibit on display at the Foundation.
Both visited the Foundation and the exhibit in November along with several other
members of the department while attending a program on nanotechnology sponsored
by the CHF's Joseph Priestley Society.
• March 1, 2004: Nevin Naguib and Emily Ho, have been chosen to participate in
the University of San Francisco's 2004 International Business Plan Competition.
For the competition, they will present their venture plan, "Hy-Nano," April 1-3,
2004 in San Francisco, Ca. For details, click here
• March 1, 2004: Linlin Chen of Nanomaterials group received 1st Place for the
poster sessions held during the 28th International Cocoa Beach Conference and
Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held January 25-30 in Cocoa
Beach, FL. The title of her poster was "Mechanical Properties of Tyranno ZMI SiC
Fibers with Alumina-Based Coatings"
• Febraury 25, 2004:
AWARDS ON HONORS DAY 2003-2004 :
John Chimiola - Undergraduate Students Research Award
Maria Pia Rossi - GAANN Fellowship
Kristopher Behler - ATOFINA Chemicals Fellowship
Nevin N.Naguib - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG)
Fellowships
Thomas F.Juliano - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG)
Fellowships
• February 21, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi is in the organizing committee of MRS
fall meeting. symposium on "Surface Engineering - Fundamentals and
Applications". For details, click here.
• February 15, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi is in the organizing committee of third
International Conference "Materials and Coatings for Extreme Performances:
Investigations, Applications, Ecologically Safe Technologies for Their
Production and Utilization" to be held in Katsiveli-town, Crimea, Ukraine on
September 13 - September 17. For details, click here.
• February 12, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi was quoted in the February 12, 2004 issue of
Physical Review Focus in an article titled "Nanotubes Go with the Flow" on the
bending of carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Focus is an online publication of
the American Physical Society.
• February 7, 2004: Prof. Gogotsi have been invited to join the Editorial
Board of "British Ceramic Transactions" an international journal publishing
refereed papers on ceramic science and engineering. It is printed by Maney
Publishing ( http://www.maney.co.uk ).
• February 5, 2004: Congratulations to John Chmiola, who has been chosen as a
winner of the Delaware Valley Engineers Week Council Paper Award for his paper
entitled, "Capacitance Measurement of Nanoporous Carbon Obtained from
Chlorinating Ti2AlC." The award will be presented during the Engineers' Week
Banquet on February 28, 2004 at Temple University.
• January 14, 2004: Congratulations to Dr. Slava Domnich, who's work will
appear in the next issue of Renishaw's Spectroscopy Innovations.
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