We are delighted to announce that our Nature paper on Conductive MXene Clay is published. We provide here few links on the media coverage of the article:

– http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2014/November/MXene-clay/

-http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1126/New-clay-could-help-remold-possibilities-for-renewable-energy

-http://phys.org/news/2014-11-future-energy-storage-clay.html

-http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=133479

-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141126132632.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy%2Fenergy_technology+%28Energy+Technology+News+–+ScienceDaily%29

The paper of “Flexible and conductive MXene films and nanocomposites with high capacitance”, by Chang E. Ren, Meng-qiang Zhao and our former group members Zheng Ling and James Giammarco, is on publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This paper is the first ever report on composites based on MXenes- the new class of two-dimensional materials that we have been exploring with Prof. Barsoum’s group since 2011. This kind of composite films has an amazing combination of electrical, mechanical and electrochemical properties, and can challenge graphene-based or composite films/papers.

The paper can be found here.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/10/1414215111.abstract?sid=2138718e-6c2c-4103-bc65-81d3bc0bb97f

Movie related to flexibility of the Mxene film is free to access via this link.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/10/1414215111.abstract?tab=ds

Drexel university presee release can be found here.

http://www.drexel.edu/now/archive/2014/November/flexible-MXenes/

Media coverage on our PNAS paper:

1- http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=38050.php

2- http://nauka24news.ru/?p=4821

3- http://www.newsxz.com/science/bendingbut-not-breakingin-search-of-new-materials-h59776.html

4- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/du-b-n111114.php

5- http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=50442

Boris Dyatkin recently completed an 8-week research visit to Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in Dalian (Liaoning Province, China). He was the recipient of an International Research Fellowship, awarded by the The International Center for Materials Resarch (ICMR) at UC Santa Barbara. Boris worked with the Carbon Research Laboratory of Professor Qiu. His research focused on exploring fundamental properties of graphene aerogels and porous carbons and optimizing their structures for energy storage. He additionally delivered invited seminar talks at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU).