2nd International Conference on MXenes was opened on May 10, 2019 at Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

2nd International Conference on MXenes will be held in Beijing, China on May 10-12, 2019. The conference is hosted and organized by Beijing University of Chemical Technology. 

Research team of Materials Research Centre led by Oleksiy Gogotsi take part in CanBioSe project meeting and Workshop held in Vilnius University, Vilnus, Lithuania. MRC team met with another CanBioSe project participants, presented MRC company. Also MRC director gave a talk on 2d materials MXenes and their possible applications.

MRC team of engineers visited Addit Expo 3D, Plast Expo Ua, Kyiv Technical Fair and Coating Expo UA ‑ 2019 to learn more about last trends in polymer and coating industry and to discuss with conference participants actual questions and present their NANO2DAY research project.

MRC team (Materials Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine) and research groups from Jilin University (Changchun, Cnina) and Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA) presented breakthrough research on increasing the specific capacity for high-power supercapacitors with coarse-grained carbon electrodes and thickness up to 800 μm, recently published in Electrochimica Acta. In this work, they reported on the trends in capacitance change for coarse-grained CDC and AC electrodes with the thickness from 200 to 800 mm.

Director of Materials Research Centre Oleksiy Gogotsi was invited by professor Galina Dovbeshko, to take part in scientific discussion and seminar, held at the Department of Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He gave a seminar lecture on synthesis and properties of novel two-dimensional material MXene. Also Oleksiy Gogotsi presented current research MSCA RISE project NANO2DAY where MRC is participating with MXene expertise.

The aim of the NANOGUARD2AR project 3rd Workshop is to discuss current the state-of-the-art on Safety of the Nanomaterials Application to the Indoor Air Quality Control, including green building concept and overall progress with Engineering Nanomaterials Regulation in EU and worldwide

In January 2019 Professor Yury Gogotsi was elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC).

Professor Yury Gogotsi is a leading Ukrainian and American scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA since the year 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology.

Yury Gogotsi was a chemist from the very beginning. He feels the excitement of scientific discovery, and cannot imagine doing anything else. It was love at first sight for Yury Gogotsi. 

Gogotsi feels that the greatest recent step in the field of materials science was the discovery of new 2D materials, the “building blocks of the future”. He is very enthusiastic about the use of nanotechnology to generate “new artificial materials, structures and devices from nanoscale building blocks” and the increased application of “modeling, simulation, and machine learning for solving materials science problems”, though he admits concern regarding the unknown effects that artificial intelligence will have on our future lives. He is also conscious of the energy required for computation and the importance of exploiting renewable resources to develop new technologies – ones that reduce energy consumption. “We need revolutionary discoveries here,” he says. “Evolutionary development won’t be enough.”

Due to the NANO2DAY project under european scientific  research program HORIZON 2020 Dr. Vitalis Leisis, Kaunas Unniversity of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania), visited Ukrainian partner Materials Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine on November -December 2018. 

NANO2DAY project participants from the Materials Research Center (MRC), Kiev, Ukraine, Alexey Gogotsi (MRC project leader) and Veronika Zahorodna (early-staged researcher, in the framework of international scientific cooperation on the Horizon 2020 program, visited the partner organization Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, on September-October 2018 in accordance with the travel plan on the project to perform planned project activities.

Director of Materials Research Centre (Kiev, Ukraine) Oleksiy Gogotsi  at the work meeting in Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, made a  presentation of the company and its activitties in international research and development projects. Also Oleksiy Gogotsi presented HORIZON 2020 MSCA RISE Project №777810 NANO2DAY: MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLYMER COMPOSITES DOPED WITH NOVEL 2D NANOPARTICLES FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS.

During NANO2DAY project visit  to Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), director of Materials Research Centre (kiev, Ukraine) Oleksiy Gogotsi met with Assoc. Prof. Zdeněk Sofer from University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (Chech Republic) and attended his seminar on nanomaterials. Prof. Zdenek Sofer in Drexel University gave an excellent seminar on 2D Materials Beyond Graphene.

Due to the NANO2DAY project under european scientific  research program HORIZON 2020 research scientist  Maksym Plakhothyuk, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), visited Ukrainian partner Materials Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine on September-November 2018. 

China"s Government Friendship Award ceremony was held in Great Hall of the People, in Beijing on September 29, 2018, the award to the winners were presented by the Vice Premier of China Liu He. The People's Republic of China Government Friendship Award is China's highest award for foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress.