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THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION and THE JOURNAL SCIENCE, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, awarded Yury Gogotsi (Ph.D., D.Sc., Trustee Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute) for the submission entitled Roses of Boehmite which won finalist recognition photography in the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
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The SEM image produced by Dr. Isabel Knoke was a finalist in the NSF-Science magazine competition (the most prestigious imaging competition in the world). It is a scanning electron micrograph of the aluminum hydroxide phase Boehmite. These rose-like crystals were formed in a reaction of aluminum with water. The image was taken on a ZEISS SEM in their CRF and colored using Photoshop. This SEM image comes from a sample provided by AlumiFuel, our consortium member working on portable hydrogen energy. This image shows the beautiful and intricate self-organized structures of an inorganic material. The microscopic texture of the material mimics structure that we see in nature on the macroscale, namely, that of rose petals. |
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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009 recognizes outstanding achievements by scientists, engineers, visualization specialists, and artists who are innovators in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results and scientific phenomena. |
MX-MAP project participants from MRC Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi and Veronika Zahorodna performed split secondment visit to project partner organization University of Padova (Italy). MX-MAP project works on development of the key strategies for MXene medical applications. 
CanbioSe Project Meeting and Project Workshop was held at European Institute of Membranes (IEM), University of Montpellier, France on September 26-27, 2023. The workshop was focused on the theme of "Commercializing Biosensors, Intellectual Property, and Knowledge Transfer from Academia to Industry.
Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi and Veronika Zahorodna visited IEEE NAP 2023 conference held in Bratislava on September 10-15, 2023. The prime focus of the IEEE NAP-2023 was on nanoscale materials with emphasis on interdisciplinary research exploring and exploiting their unique physical and chemical proprieties for practical applications.
Director of MRC and Carbon-Ukraine Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi visited CEST labs in Wiener Neustadt (Low Energy Ion Scattering, Batteries development) and TU Vienna (ELSA, SFA). He meet with Dr. Pierluigi Bilotto, Dr. Chriatian Pichler and their colleagues, discussing novel materials and r&d activities for new technologies.
MX-MAP Session was held during the YUCOMAT Conference 2023 titled: "Towards MXenes’ biomedical applications by high-dimensional immune MAPping", HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01 project MX-MAP.
CANBIOSE project participants from MRC Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi and Veronika Zahorodna performed secondment visit to project partner organization European Institute of Membranes in Montpellier (France) on August -September 2023.
MRC researchers Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi and Veronika Zahorodna were visiting Nanobiomedical Centre, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznan, Poland due to close collaboration with AMU team led by Dr. Igor Iatsunskiy. 
Meeting during the MXene international conference held in Drexel University on Aug. 3, 2022, and discussing the roadmap for launching MX-MAP research project on MXenes for medical applications.
Presenting our recent collaborative research paper on MXene use for PPT anticancer therapy, the biocompatibility of MXenes in vitro and in vivo studies: