Month: April 2023

  • Laura Fusco to Present Her Research at the 8th Nano Today Conference

    Laura Fusco to Present Her Research at the 8th Nano Today Conference

    On Monday, April 24, DNI visiting post-doc and Marie Curie Fellow, Laura Fusco, will present “Immune compatibility and single-cell label-free detection of MXenes by high-dimensional technologies” at the 8th Nano Today Conference in San Diego, California.   Laura’s talk will be from 4:15pm-4:30pm PT in the Nanomaterials in Biology session.  More information here: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public/3717/session/59400  

  • New Article in Nature Nanotechnology

    New Article in Nature Nanotechnology

    Our article “Electrochemically Modulated Interaction of #MXenes with Microwaves” is in the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology!  Read more here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01308-9 

  • Submit Your Abstracts for YUCOMAT 2023

    Submit Your Abstracts for YUCOMAT 2023

    Abstracts are being accepted until May 1, 2023 for MRS Serbia’s YUCOMAT 2023 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023.  Professor Gogotsi is the chair of the YUCOMAT 2023 International Advisory Board Chair.  Read more about submission and attendance here: https://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/home-page   

  • Gogotsi to Receive 2023 Jan Czochralski Award

    Gogotsi to Receive 2023 Jan Czochralski Award

    In recognition of his lifetime of research achievement in materials science, Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor, will be awarded the Jan Czochralski Award from the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS).  Read more here: https://drexel.edu/engineering/news-events/news/archive/2023/April/gogotsi-jan-czochralski-award/  

  • Laura Fusco Selected for the 3rd Lindau Online Sciathon

    Laura Fusco Selected for the 3rd Lindau Online Sciathon

    Visiting post-doc and Marie Curie Fellow, Laura Fusco, has been selected to present her project, “MXenes for Biomedical Applications” at the 3rd Lindau Online Sciathon in the Innovative Applications of Medical Research division. Read more here: https://sciathon.org/project/mapping-the-biological-activity-of-new-2d-materials-mxenes/

  • Nature Communications Top 25

    Nature Communications Top 25

    Our article with DNI Research Assistant Professor Chris Shuck, our former group member Dr. Ke LI, and Prof. Valeria Nicolosi from Trinity College is among the Top 25 chemistry and materials sciences articles in Nature Communications from 2022!  You can check out the article, “4D printing of MXene hydrogels for high-efficiency pseudocapacitive energy storage” here:…

  • Drexel Press Release: Shedding Light on Mechanisms of Electrochemical Energy Storage

    Drexel Press Release: Shedding Light on Mechanisms of Electrochemical Energy Storage

    Congratulations to Danzhen Zhang, John Wang, Xuehang Wang, & Yury Gogotsi on their paper in Nature Energy on a new technique that can identify the exact electrochemical mechanisms taking place in batteries and supercapacitors of various compositions 🔋 On April 6, 2023, Drexel released the linked press release on this very important research. Read more:…

  • MXenes are the focus of Drexel University’s next Ambition Can’t Wait campaign!

    MXenes are the focus of Drexel University’s next Ambition Can’t Wait campaign!

    Drexel University ranks #7 in the US and #39 globally in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the 2022-2023 US News and World Report Global University rankings.   There are some truly astonishing metrics of our publications impact behind these rankings:   Percentage of total publications in Nano that are among the 10% most cited is #1 in the…

  • DNI PhD Students Volunteer at Philly School’s Science Fair

    DNI PhD Students Volunteer at Philly School’s Science Fair

    This week on Wednesday, March 29, two graduate students from our group spent the morning engaging with local elementary students.  Kyle Matthews and Benj Chacon judged Alexander Adaire Elementary’s first science fair. Thirty students in grades 2-7 presented their scientific research and answered questions by the 4 judges, 3 from Drexel and 2 from DNI. …

  • Marley Downes Named 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar

    Marley Downes Named 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar

    We are shouting a huge congratulations to DNI undergraduate lab assistant, Marley Downes, who was named a 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar! The Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation presents the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in America. Supported by her mentors, Christopher Shuck, Yury Gogotsi, and Ph.D.…