The First International Conference on Energy Storage Materials (ICEnSM 2017) was held in Shenzhen, the innovative city of China, on 18-21 November 2017. ICEnSM is a unique conference series initiated by the editors of a new Journal, Energy Storage Materials, published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-storage-materials), and Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, co-founded by Tsinghua University and University of California at Berkeley.
This conference featured world-class plenary speakers, keynote speakers, and oral/poster presentations.
Energy Storage Materials was requesting written nominations from the international community for its 2017 Energy Storage Materials Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding scientist in the field of energy storage and conversion materials and devices who has made significant contribution and whose work shows significant innovation in the field. The award was presented at this Conference, and the winner will be asked to give a plenary lecture at this conference and to write a paper related to his/her lecture for Energy Storage Materials. In addition, the Best Paper Award, the Most Cited Paper Award, and the Excellent Reviewer Awards in 2016 was conferred at the conference as well.
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 was presented to Professor Gogotsi at the ICEnSM 2017 (2017 International Conference on Energy Storage Materials) on November 21, 2017.
The award, which is sponsored by Elsevier, gives special recognition to a person who has accomplished outstanding achievements in energy storage materials and devices. At the 2017 International Conference on Energy Storage Materials Professor Yury Gogotsi also gave a Keyneote lecture on Multidimensional Materials and Electrode Architectures for High-Rate Hybrid (Faradic+Capacitive) Energy Storage.
Professor Yury Gogotsi is recognized as one of the leaders in materials for electrochemical capacitors. His seminal work on carbon nanomaterials helped to better understand the mechanisms of capacitive energy storage. He introduced new materials to the field, such as carbon onions, and invented new technologies, such as electrochemical flow capacitors. Professor Gogotsi's recent work has concentrated on development of a new family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), which he and his colleagues at Drexel University discovered in 2011. He is the author of over 500 of refereed journal papers and co-inventor of more than 60 inventions with patents issued or filed. He has an H-index of 92/109 (Web of Science/Google Scholar) and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics in 2014-2017. Dr. Gogotsi is Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor, Distinguished University Professor and Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute at Drexel University. He is also a Distinguished Foreign Professor at Jilin University, China.
Source: http://www.icensm.org/
Here we demonstrate a new developed method for depositing Ti3C2Tx MXenes onto hydrophobic electrospun PCL membranes using oxygen plasma treatment. These novel patches hold tremendous potential for providing mechanical support to damaged heart tissue and enabling electrical signal transmission,thereby mimicking the crucial electroconductivity required for normal cardiac function. After a detailed investigation of scaffold-to-cell interplay, including electrical stimulation, novel technology has the potential for clinical application not only for cardiac regeneration, but also as neural and muscular tissue substitutes.
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.