The Drexel Nanomaterials Institute is honored to receive one of three of Agilent’s Solutions Innovation Research Awards. DNI will have the 1-year loan of an Agilent 5900 ICP-OES system fully installed in our lab with all related accessories. Professor Yury Gogotsi and Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Yuan Zhang submitted the winning proposal to use the instrument…

PhD student, Benj Chacon, has just returned to Drexel from his parabolic flight in Bordeaux, France where he was a passenger and researcher on the zero-gravity flight. Along with DNI alum and Marie Curie Fellow, Dr. Laura Fusco, the collaborators carried immune cells treated with MXenes in their research to explore how they can help…

Yury Gogotsi was quoted in the October 6 article “Nanoscientists Taking on Climate Change” in In Chemistry giving his opinion about how nanomaterials can contribute to a sustainable future and decrease energy consumption/waste. Read more here: https://inchemistry.acs.org/careers/nanoscientists-taking-on-climate-change.html?fbclid=IwAR0AHSSUB9Df2AQCsaT8mxrtUaQ3vHsMcfpJMmQZ58H-LRr64trRNru2baA 

According to the Stanford List, Professor Gogotsi now ranks 27th in the world among all scientists in all disciplines and the 3rd in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, as well as #3 in Materials Science in 2022. Former DNI students and post-docs Mohit Saraf, Kanit Hantanasirisakul, Mohamed Alhabeb, Kathleen Maleski, Mykola Seredych, Meikang Han, Babak Anasori, Maria…

On September 20, 2023 at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) meeting, Professor Gogotsi was awarded the Jan Czochralski Award. The award is named for Jan Czochralski, the most cited Polish scientists of all time. He is the creator of the Czochralski method, used for growing single crystals. When applied to germanium and silicon, the…

A new interview with Prof. Gogotsi is available on the EChem Channel on YouTube! In this video, Dr. Yuan Zhang and Dr. John Wang interviewed Prof. Yury Gogotsi. As a prominent member of the electrochemistry community, he had some suggestions for young scientists in the field of nanomaterials and electrochemistry.   Watch here: Interviewing Prof. Yury…

Undergraduate STAR students in our group had the opportunity to present their MXene research at the STAR Summer Showcase on Drexel’s campus on Thursday, August 31. Prastuti (mentor Stefano Ippolito) presented her research titled, “Fast Gelation of MXene Induced by Metal Ions”, Jaxon (mentor John Wang) presented his research titled, “Optimization of In Situ Cell to…

Congratulations to Yury Gogotsi as his h-index in Scopus has reached 200!   Prof Gogotsi thanks generations of students & post-docs as well as many collaborators in the US and abroad who shaped several new #materials research fields and opened many new research directions.

The General Program of the 24th MRS-Serbia Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2023 (September 4-8, 2023, Hunguest Hotel Sun Resort, Herceg Novi, Montenegro) is now available!   Read more here: https://mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/general-conference-programme2023

DNI was honored to host three high school interns this summer!   These impressive teens, Faraz, Carnegie, and Alejandro joined us from July 5-August 4 for an intensive internship working alongside PhD students Eliot Precetti, Roman Rakhmanov, and Jamie FitzPatrick.   Faraz and Eliot studied MXene in silkworms in an effort to create MXene silk threads, Carnegie…