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.

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

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. 

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.

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 research scientist  Maksym Plakhothyuk, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), visited Ukrainian partner Materials Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine on September-November 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.

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.

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.

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.

Now, researchers at Drexel University have developed a method for creating nearly invisible antennas on almost any surface by literally spraying them on like paint. The antennas are made from a special two-dimensional metallic material called MXene. MXene powder can be dissolved in water to create a paint that is then airbrushed on. In tests, even a layer as thin as just 62 nanometers – thousands of times thinner than a sheet of paper – could communicate effectively. Performance maxed out at just 8 microns, a point at which the spray-on antennas worked just as well as those currently used in mobile devices and wireless routers.

This designation celebrates researchers whose influence is comparable to that of Nobel Prize recipients, as attested by exceptionally high citation records within the Web of Science. 

At the poster session of the conference Oleksiy Gogotsi presented two poster presentations on advanced nanomaterials for different applications, prepared with colleagues from Drexel University, USA, and Jilin University, China

Yalta European Strategy (YES)  introduced nightcap events for the participants of the 15th YES Annual Meeting to wind down at the end of the first conference day and discuss interesting topics in an informal atmosphere. YES invited leading politicians, opinion makers and business leaders to present their views on modern trends that define the world and Ukraine. The nightcaps were organized in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and America House, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council, Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine, Western NIS Enterprise Fund and Embassy of the Republic of Estonia.

NANO2DAY project participants from Materials Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, MRC director and project leader Oleksiy Gogotsi and ESR Veronika Zahorodna are working in Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia under the project secondments plan.

Professor Omastova was acquainted with the activities and research infrastructure of MRC project partner, she held several seminars on polymer composites and talked about the experience and developments of her institute. 

The 6th International Conference “Novel Functional Carbon Nanomaterials”within the 8th Forum on New Materials at CIMTEC 2018 held in Perugia, Italy,  highlighted recent achievements and challenges in the synthesis, structural control and modeling at the meso- and nano-scales of the variety of low-dimensional carbon allotropes including nanodiamonds, diamond-like carbon, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene and graphene-related structures, as well as high surface area carbon networks, which are promising for a range of emerging applications in energy conversion and storage, water purification, high-speed nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photonics, quantum information processing, quantum computing, biosensing, drug delivery, medical imaging, thermal management, catalysis, lubrication, etc.

The meeting is the first international conference focusing on MXene materals, which is to bring scientists in the two-dimensional materials or energy area to interact and discuss the advances and challenges in various fields.

On May 14th, 2018, Prof. Yury Gogotsi received an honorary doctorate from the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (NTUU “KPI”), Kiev, Ukraine.

H2020-MSCA-RISE project „Multifunctional polymer composites doped with novel 2D nanoparticles for advanced applications NANO2DAY” started on May 1, 2018. It is aimed to develop novel multifunctional composites with outstanding electronic and mechanical properties by incorporation of novel MXene nanosheets into polymer matrixes.

Processing guidelines for the fabrication of MXene films, coatings, and fibers have been established based on the rheological properties.

Professor Yury Gogotsi will give a lecture on 2D materials MXenes on MSE winter Colloquim in Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University. 

On February 14, 2018, Materials Research Center team visited the Training " on "How to write a successful proposal in Horizon 2020" at National Aviation University of Ukraine"  as part of the NAU Info Day.

MXene is one of the most sensitive gas sensors ever reported that sniff out chemicals in the air to warn us about everything from fires to carbon monoxide to drunk drivers to explosive devices hidden in luggage have improved so much that they can even detect diseases on a person’s breath. Researchers from Drexel University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have made a discovery that could make our best “chemical noses” even more sensitive.

Professor Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA,  gave a plenary lecture on February 06, 2018 and chaired a plenary session on February 05 at the Energy Future Conference (EF3 Conference 2018) in Sydney. EF3 Conference 2018 brought together scientists, engineers, policy makers, investors, academia, and industry to discuss the latest advances in energy technology. 

More than 30 speakers from USA and Czech were invited, among them also was invited outstanding scientist, professor Yury Gogotsi, founder director of Drexel Nanomaterials Institute in Drexel University, USA.

Director of Materials Research Centre Oleksiy Gogotsi visited Jiln University, Changchun, China. He had a work meeting with Yury Gogotsi, Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, USA, and Distinguished Foreign Professor at Jilin University and Professor Wei Han, Executive Deputy Director of International Collaborative Center of Talents, International Center of Future Science, and discussed ongoing joint works and research on materials for supercapacitors.

Professor Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University, USA, has won the 2017 Energy Storage Materials Award, which is awarded by the journal Energy Storage Materials. The Award will be presented to Professor Gogotsi at the ICEnSM 2017 (2017 International Conference on Energy Storage Materials), which will be held in Shenzhen, China, on Nov. 18-21, 2017.

His research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in his field and during its year of publication, earning the mark of exceptional impact. This year is the first time Yury Gogotsi made this list in two categories - Materials Science and Chemistry.

Oleksiy Gogotsi, director of Materials Research Center presented join research on synthesis and biomedical applications of 2D carbides MXenes.

Professor Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University, USA, received the 2017 Changbai Mountain Friendship Award from the vice-governor of Jilin Province at the National Day foreign experts reception.

Congarstulations to professor Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University, USA, who has won the 2017 Energy Storage Materials Award,and is awarded by Energy Storage Materials journal.

In their most recent paper in Nature Materials researcher from Drexel University led by prof. Yury Gogotsi showed that Coulombic ordering reduces when the pores can accommodate only a single layer of ions. The non-Coulombic ordering is further enhanced in the presence of an applied electric potential. 

Researchers described a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short-circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

Yury Gogotsi is a researcher in the Drexel University Nanomaterials Group. He and his colleagues discovered a series of novel materials known as MXenes. 

Professor Yury Gogotsi , Drexel University, USA,  received an Honorary Doctorate from Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Science of Ukraine.

The life of Yury Gogotsi is a constant back and forth between the top laboratories in the world, writing articles in the best scientific journals and research materials that can change the world around them. 

Speakers:  Victor Korsun and Douglas Graham

Join world-class nanoscientists and environmental leaders to explore how the capacity to harness molecules and atoms is accelerating spectacular inventions — including light-weight “wonder materials,” vital energy-storage technologies, and new sources of renewable energy — which promise to redefine the very future of energy.

Research of 2D MXenes is prominently featured in an article in Chemical & Engineering News - bulletin of the American Chemical Society that goes in hard copy to more than 150,000 subscribers. No doubt, MXenes are at the forefront of 2D materials research.

Research team from Drexel University lead by professor Yury Gogotsi produced an award-wining entry and became the 1st place winner in Science as Art competition at 2017 MRS Spring meeting in Phoenix.

On the first day of the conference, on March 28, the conference participants had an opportunity to attend a plenary lecture "Two-Dimensional Materials for High Rate and High-energy Density Storage" by invited plenary speaker professor Yury Gogotsi, Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, and Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute 

The goal of the workshop is to attract the most recognized academic experts in the field of Innovative Nanomaterials for Environmental Application to share their knowledge and expertise on nanomaterials, nanoengineering and green building concepts.

More than twenty 2D carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides of transition metals (MXenes) have been synthesized and studied, and dozens more predicted to exist. Highly electrically conductive MXenes show promise in electrical energy storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, electrocatalysis, plasmonics and other applications.

Prof. Gogotsi has been named among Highly Cited Researchers 2016, representing worlds most influential scientific minds

The official appointment ceremony of Honorary professorship for Dr. Yury Gogotsi took place in a ceremonial atmosphere at Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China on October 20, 2016.

12th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-XII), is held during 14-19 October, 2016 at Hunan Agriculture University together with Nanjing Tech University, Fudan University and University of Technology, Sydney.

 According to the authors, when electromagnetic waves come in contact with MXene, some are immediately reflected from its surface, while others pass through the surface but they lose energy amidst the material’s atomically thin layers.

Beijing University of Chemical Technology have decided to award prof. Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University (USA) the title of Honorary Professor based on his distinguished academic accomplishments. 

Nano Energy Award was presented to prof. Yury Gogotsi at 2016 Nanoenergy and Nanosystems Conference, which was held in Beijing on 13-15 July 2016.

Professor Yury Gogotsi, director of Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, USA, and director of Materials Research Centre Oleksiy Gogotsi visited Jilin University in Changchun, China, to meet research partners and discuss work questions and joint cooperation.

June 16, 2016 prof. Yury Gogotsi gave a seminar lecture on Two-Dimensional Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes) and Their Applications in Energy Storage for the sudents and researchers of Jilin University, Changchun, China.

Prof.Yury Gogotsi at the Nature Journals’ Materials for Energy conference gave a talk on Synthesis, Properties And Energy Storage Applications of Two-Dimensional Carbides (Mxenes) in Wuhan University of Technology Conference Centre, Wuhan, China

The award will be presented to prof. Yury Gogotsi at the Nanoenergy and Nanosystems 2016 conference, which will be held in Beijing between 13-15 July 2016.

Professor Yury Gogotsi have been listed in the 2015 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. 

Prof. Yury Gogotsi has been admitted as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) on December 11, 2015 for his outstanding contribution to chemistry. 

Prof. Yury Gogotsi was awarded the Lee Hsun Award Lecture at the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 5, 2015.

Winners of the international award RUSNANOPRIZE 2015 became Yury Gogotsi,  professor  of Drexel University (USA), Director of the Institute of nanomaterials Drexel University (USA), and professor of the University Paul Sabatier (France), Patrice Simon for the fundamental studies and development of carbon nanomaterials for electrochemical supercapacitors.

The Expert Group of  RUSNANOPRIZE 2015 has announced the shortlist of three finalists - prof. Armand Paul Alivisatos, prof.Yury Gogotsi and prof. Patrice Simon, prof. Huamin Zhang

MRC director Oleksiy Gogotsi visited Nanobio 2015 Conference to present a poster presentation and gave oral report.

Congratulations to Prof. Gogotsi for being elected to the MRS Board of Directors!

If you are a member of MRS, you can vote to support Prof. Yury Gogotsi as a candidate for the MRS Board of Directors.

  Was presented DNI--MRC-CIRIMAT joint work of DNI--MRC-CIRIMAT - on High Capacitance of Coarse-Grained Carbide-Derived Carbon Particles.

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, are emerging new class of nanomaterials with many fascinating properties and applications

This symposium is to bring together the leading scientists who are working actively in the field of carrier dynamics and optical properties of 2-dimensional nanostructures,2-dimensional material synthesis, and related technologies

Materials scientists from Drexel University’s College of Engineering invented the clay, which is both highly conductive and can easily be molded into a variety of shapes and sizes

Safe and powerful energy storage devices are becoming increasingly important.

Flexible new material, which the group has identified as a conductive polymer nanocomposite, is the latest expression of the ongoing research in Drexel’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering on a family of composite two-dimensional materials called MXenes

Two-dimensional transition metal carbides (MXenes) offer a quite unique combination of excellent mechanical properties, hydrophilic surfaces, and metallic conductivity.

Doctor Honoris Causa  award is giving for outstanding achievements in science and education.

Scientists announced they have likely discovered the strongest, stiffest diamond-based nanomaterial to date.

”There are so many different MXenes, with dozens more possible,” says professor Yury Gogotsi

Since inventing a new conductive material three years ago, researchers at Drexel and around the world are finding new ways to adapt and apply it.

Tue., August 5 - prof. Yury Gogotsi, Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair in Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, is invited at the 6th International Symposium on Functional Nanomaterials in Singapor

Gogotsi is one of only 147 materials science researchers worldwide appearing on this list, and is one of three researchers included from Drexel University

CIMTEC 2014 - 13th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies -was held in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy, June 8 to 19, 2014.

Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA was invited to give a plenary lecture "Ion confinement in carbon nanopores: Application for electrochemical capacitors".

Researchers examined the use of a percolating network of metal oxides (MnO2) as the active materials in a suspension electrode as a way to increase the capacitance and energy density of an electrochemical flow capacitor...

MRS TV featured an interview with Dr. Gogotsi about his talk as Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, titled “Not Just Graphene — the Wonderful World of Carbon.”

MRC was visited by US project partner Igor Barsukov (American Energy Technologies Company), Ukrainian P482 project manager M.Gubinskyi (NMetAU). The workshop took place in the Material Research Centre, where were discussed the work issues on equipment manufacturing due to the project P482.

The structures of nanocrystalline pristine, potassium hydroxide and sodium acetate intercalated new two-dimensional materials Ti₃C₂MXenes were studied

A combination of density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experiments are used to shed light on the relation between surface structure and Li-ion storage capacities of the following functionalized two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides, or MXenes

Sampling ultrasmall volumes of liquids for analysis is essential in a number of fields from cell biology to microfluidics to nanotechnology and electrochemical energy storage

Paper shows that electrodes of Nb₂O₅ successfully retain the pseudocapacitive properties of the corresponding nanoscale materials

ACS Meetings organizes two of the most respected scientific meetings in the world.

Electrochemical measurements can distinguish between different types of energy storage materials and their underlying mechanisms.

With the participation of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yu.Sergeev were discussed the aspects of implementation of the student exchange program between Ukraine and the United States

The spilled oil represents a menace to the aquatic ecosystem and the whole..

Since the discovery of graphene, the quest for two-dimensional (2D) materials has intensified greatly

The field of energy textiles is growing but continues to face two main challenges...

Carbon films on SiC have many applications, ranging from tribology to electrical energy storage.

Onion-like carbon (OLC) based micro-supercapacitor electrodes prepared by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) were combined with a eutectic mixture of ionic liquids (IL), producing a micro-supercapacitor which is able to function from − 50 °C to 80 °C. 

The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC) 2013 took place at Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. At QF-ARC 2013 prof. Y. Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA, had  a talk on Carbon Materials for Capacitive Energy Storage.

The award was presented at the ACerS 115th Annual Meeting held in conjunction with MS&T’13 in Montreal, Canada in October 27-31, 2013.

The global discussion platform—Open Innovations Forum—is dedicated to emerging technologies and furthering innovation prospects and collaboration worldwide.

This year prize goes to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute Professor Robert Langer and Harvard Medical School Professor Omid Farokhzad...

Roland B. Snow Award 2013 winner - “The Carbon-Anatase Dog” Babak Anasori, Michael Naguib, Yury Gogotsi, Michel W. Barsoum...

This book provides information on synthesis, properties, and applications of carbon nanomaterials. With novel materials, such as graphene (atomically flat carbon) or carbon onions (carbon nanospheres), the family of carbon nanomaterials is rapidly growing.

Green machine: Every single component of the electrical energy storage system presented is environmentally friendly and can be safely disposed of or incinerated after use.

The expansion of porous carbon electrodes in a room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) is studied using in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM). The effect of carbon surface area and pore size/pore size distribution on the observed strain profile and ion kinetics is examined.

Research team of Drexel Nanotechnology Institute at The 224th Electrochemical Society ECS Meeting

Drexel University researchers has pushed the materials storage capacities to new levels while also allowing for their use in flexible devices

Graphene film with high strength was fabricated by the assembly of graphene sheets derived from graphene oxide (GO) in an effective and environmentally friendly approach.

Publication on the electrochemical flow capacitor (EFC) by nanomaterials group of DNI, Drexel University, USA. EFC is a new technology for grid energy storage that is based on the fundamental principles of supercapacitors.

Carbon onions represent one of the least studied carbon nanomaterials, and are seeing a large increase in attention for energy storage applications.

That research projects were organized by the U.S. Department of Energy (United States Department of Energy (DoE), Argonne National Laboratory, USA (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)  for the development of new batteries for electric drive vehicles.

The potential pathways to increase the energy storage in electric double-layer (EDL) supercapacitors using room-temperature ionic liquid electrolytes and carbon-based nanostructured electrodes are explored by molecular dynamics simulations.

Electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLC), or supercapacitors, rely on electrosorption of ions by porous carbon electrodes and offer a higher power and a longer cyclic lifetime compared to batteries.

These annual international meetings provide an interactive forum to discuss the advances in synthesis, characterization, properties, processing, applications, basic research trends, corrosion prevention, and more, all related to the area of materials science and engineering.

The Brazilian Carbon Association gathers all carbon researchers to the first ever Annual World Conference on Carbon...

A scientific research paper published in ACS Nano has been selected as recipient of a prestigious award from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). ACS Nano is one of more than 40 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

Joining for AABC Europe 2013, the premier European advanced battery conference, unrivaled in its high standard of presentations and extraordinary networking opportunities! The fourth European AABC examined the expanding advanced battery market with a focus on the activities and needs of European automakers...

The 2013 International Conference on Advanced Capacitors, organized by The Electrochemical Society of Japan, was held in May 27 - May 30, 2013, at Osaka, Japan.

The conference is devoted to 150-th Birthday of the world famous Ukrainian scientist Volodymyr Vernadsky.

Meeting focused on the intermediate results and deliverables of the project, conducted experiments, assembly and launching equipment...

Materials Research Society Academic Affairs Committee assesses existing educational curricula in materials science

The 2013 MRS Spring Meeting hosted 56 technical sessions, an international exhibit, a variety of special events and tutorial sessions, and much more.

Novel electrical energy storage concept, the electrochemical flow capacitor (EFC), holds much promise for grid-scale energy storage applications.

Professor Yury Gogotsi, Director of Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, USA, visited Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), located in Doha, Qatar, March 2013

Director of Materials Research Centre, on February, 2013, visited Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, to take part in work meeting.  .