1st Philadelphia Electrochemical Society Symposium

View photos from the “1st Philadelphia Electrochemical Society Symposium” held on April 28, 2016 below.

 

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The Rising and Receding Fortunes of Electrochemists

Read the Editorial that Prof. Reg Penner and Prof. Yury Gogotsi wrote for the April 2016 issue of ACS Nano here.

Highlight Article – Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie published an unsolicited 2.5-page Highlight article on our microsupercaps Science paper:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201603040/epdf
Congratulations to all of the authors!

Adding Some Salt to the Recipe For Energy Storage Materials

Read the new Drexel press release on our recent Nature Communications paper on 2D Oxides:
http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/April/salt-template-oxides/
This work resulted from Prof. Gogotsi’s visiting professorship at HUST and 3-month visits of two HUST students to Drexel.

Graphene 2016

Prof. Yury Gogotsi will present the Plenary Lecture at Graphene 2016 in Genoa on Tuesday.  View more details here.

Nanodiamond Research Featured

Enjoy reading the latest article about our nanodiamond work: http://atlasofscience.org/diamonds-the-doctorss-best-friend/

Congratulations to Amanda!

PhD Candidate Amanda Pentecost has been awarded the highly prestigious David L. Boren Fellowship, in addition to the Whittaker Fellowship, to support her research at KIST in South Korea.  Congratulations to Amanda!

Drexel Visit to NNFC-KAIST

Provost Brian Blake and Vice Provost Julie Mostov, along with Prof. MinJun Kim visit NNFC on April 13th.  They attended the KAIST Forum and had a meeting with JaeYoung Lee, President of NNFC, Dr. Ahn, and Prof. HeeTae Jung, Director of KINC(KAIST Institute for Nano-Century). They also had an unveiling ceremony to celebrate the start of the center. 

Congratulations to Alumna Dr. Kelsey Hatzell

Our alumna Dr. Kelsey Hatzell if going to be a Vanderbilt Assistant Professor. She is expecting to have appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and the interdisciplinary Materials Program + an appointment at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). Congratulations!

ECS Summer Fellowship

Congratulations to Boota for winning an ECS Summer Fellowship, totaled at $5,000.  This is a very competitive award. Reports of all award winners are published in Interface, the quarterly publication of The Electrochemical Society.
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