Adv. Mater. Paper
Our review paper with Beatriz Mendoza is #5 most accessed in Adv. Mater. for the past year:
B. Mendoza-Sánchez, Y. Gogotsi, Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Materials for Capacitive Energy Storage, Advanced Materials, 28, 6104-6135 (2016)
Xuehang Wins Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Self-financed Abroad
Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Xuehang Wang, who has been awarded the ‘Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Self-financed Abroad,’ an award set up by the China Scholarship Council to honor overseas Chinese students with outstanding academic accomplishments. Established in 2003, this award is developed to encourage research excellence and to recognize the achievements among Chinese students abroad. This award includes a 6,000-USD prize and a CSC-issued certificate.
Congratulations to Xuehang!
DNI Alumnus in JMC-A Emerging Investigators 2017
ORAU Awards to NMG Alum
ORAU has awarded competitive research grants totaling $185,000 to 37 junior faculty from its member institutions. The recipients, each of whom is in the first two years of a tenure track position, will receive $5,000 in “seed money” for the 2017-2018 academic year to enhance their research during the early stages of their career.
Of these 37 awardees, 5% are Nanomaterials Group alumni. Congratulations to Prof. Kelsey Hatzell and Prof. Majid Beidaghi!
View the full list here.
“Perspective” Article in Nature Energy
Prof. Yury Gogotsi and Prof. Ekaterina Pomerantseva from Drexel’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering explore the topic of layering 2D Materials for Improved Energy Storage in a recent invited “Perspective” article in Nature Energy. Read the full press release here.
Commencement 2017
Congratulations to all Drexel graduates, especially NMG graduates Katie Van Aken, PhD., Wendy Thurman, MS, and Jay Shah, MS. See below some photos from the ceremony.
Alumnus to Join Harvard University
Brain&Ukraine
Prof. Yury Gogotsi will present about science and its role in shaping the future at the Brain&Ukraine meeting on June 7th at 7pm in Kiev, Ukraine. Learn more here.