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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. |
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:
Big thanks to all our friends, partners, volunteers for help and their tireless work! We continue to help our defenders and deliver military equipment, humanitarian aid, tactical medicine and special medical supplies to units of Ukrainian Army, territorial defense and hospitals on the front line!
Registration is now open for the upcoming MXene Certificate Course, February 7-11, 2022! This virtual certificate course will teach best practices for the synthesis (2 days), characterization (2 days), and electrochemical measurements of MXenes with a new lecture in the biomedical applications of MXenes (you may choose electrochemical measurements OR biomedical applications - 1 day).
Stanislav Stankevich, research assistant from Latvias University, Riga, Latvia, performed secondment visit to Materials Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, due to the MSCA RISE research project NANO2DAY working on project tasks related to MXene based composites. Dates of performed secondment visit November 17-December 16, 2021.