Congratulations to PhD Students, Asia Sarycheva, Bilen Akuzum, and Lutfi Agartan for winning the Joseph and Shirley Carleone Fellowship from Drexel’s College of Engineering. This his the highest number of recipients to the group in a single year. Congratulations to all!
Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research
Our alumna Kelsey Hatzell, currently Asst. Professor at Vanderbilt, has been featured in the virtual issue of ACS Energy Letters “Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research“
Several of our collaborators (Prof. Aleks Vojvodich from Penn) and friends (Prof. Shirley Meng from UCSD) are also included. Moreover, our highly cited paper with Prof. Vojvodich “Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Carbide (MXene) as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution” is apart of this issue. Congratulations to all!

Oxidation-resistant titanium carbide MXene film
Our paper with the NNFC team has been highlighted on the back cover of JMC A and received online coverage in Korea:
Y. Lee, S. J. Kim, Y.-J. Kim, Y. Lim, Y. Chae, B.-J. Lee, Y.-T. Kim, H. Han, Y. Gogotsi, C. W. Ahn, Oxidation-resistant titanium carbide MXene film, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, 573–581 (2020)
NSF CAREER award of Prof. Pomerantseva
Read about the NSF CAREER award of Prof. Pomerantseva (MSE) in the latest issue of the American Ceramic Society Bulletin:
MXene 2020: Ten Years Later Conference at Drexel University
Drexel University will be hosting the first U.S. based MXene Conference, titled “MXene 2020: Ten Years Later” on August 3-5, 2020. Conference organizers welcome individuals from the MXene community to submit abstract from now through May 15, 2020 at: https://drexel.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1805884.
We look forward to welcoming the MXene community to Drexel this summer!
Drexel 2020 Service to the Profession Award
We are proud to announce that alumna Elizabeth Hoffman is Drexel’s 2020 recipient of the Service to the Profession Award! She will be receiving it at Drexel on January 18th. Congratulations!