A new book, “MXenes: From Discovery to Applications of Two-Dimensional Metal Carbides and Nitrides”, edited by Yury Gogotsi, is not available for purchase!  The complete list of contents and multiple chapters are available for reading in the preview version of this 1100-page on Google Books.  Read more: https://books.google.fr/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=ViLEEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Gogotsi&ots=Skrv_mvRC-&sig=xiL51BYbbqFJ9I6CtUHBlAKzGII&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Gogotsi&f=false

DNI post-doc alum and co-author of the first MXene paper, Prof. Junjie Niu, in the news for inventing a new material – a self-cleaning coating that could be applied to commercial products such as eyeglasses, building glass, car windshields and more! Read more: https://uwm.edu/engineering/niu-gets-patent-for-self-cleaning-coating-could-be-applied-to-windows-glasses-windshields-and-more/

Professor Yury Gogotsi was quoted in a June 9, 2023 Assignment Point post about his research on using a coating of MXene to create thermal materials that can block or trap infrared radiation. Read more: https://assignmentpoint.com/infrared-radiation-can-be-used-via-mxene-spray-coating-for-heating-or-cooling/

Congratulations to the Drexel University Class of 2023 and a special congratulations to our group members who graduated on June 15th!  Dr. Mark Anayee (PhD), Adam Goad (MS), Kateryna Shevchuk (MS), Nastya Morozova (MS), and Mykhailo Yelipashev (MS) graduated from Drexel University with degrees in Materials Science and Engineering.   The AJ Drexel Nanomaterials Institute could…

Our MESC+ program alum, Marcelo Andrade, who performed his MS thesis research at DNI, and his professor, Dr. Tierry Brousse, surprised Prof Gogotsi with the “MXene Song” after his plenary lecture in Nantes at the 2nd German-French Summer School on High-Power Devices. You can listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0a0N-3wziM 

We are excited to congratulate the recipients of the The Electrochemical Society 2023 Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship and ECS Summer Fellowships – two of the five fellowships were awarded to our group!  Dr. Ruocon (John) Wang received the Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship for postdoctoral research on “Investigating Simultaneous Hydrogen Production and Storage in MXenes.” and…

What is the hottest material today? Our first MXene paper is now the most cited paper in Advanced Materials in the past three years! The second most cited article in this top materials jurnal with IF=32 is our review of MXenes!

A major congratulations to Yury Gogotsi on his induction to the National Academy of Inventors in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2023.  The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions.

Professor Yury Gogotsi was quoted in a June 29 story in The Debrief that mentioned our team’s research finding that MXene materials can absorb electromagnetic waves. Read more: https://thedebrief.org/magical-material-that-blocks-microwaves-and-infrared-heat-also-shifts-from-transparent-to-translucent/?fbclid=IwAR33SESXS7cC6KcTuywQLFrQCMjVfBRru4GSrTrWCGV0gSq_gJxrKOafUco

Yury Gogotsi will deliver a plenary lecture titled “Scalable synthesis of new two-dimensional materials – #MXenes” at the 4th International Conference “Chemical Technology and Engineering” (СTE-2023). Conference program: http://cte.org.ua/program