2nd International Conference on MXenes, Beijing, China on May 10-12, 2019
www.MXenes2019.org
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.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials became the focus of material research in the past decade owing to their unique chemical, electronic, optical, mechanical, and thermal properties that are different from their bulk counterparts. These unique properties are, in part, the result of quantum confinement effect in the atomically-thin 2D layers and are strongly dependent on the layer thickness and composition. Moreover, the properties of 2D materials are highly tunable by chemical doping, strain engineering, and external fields.
While graphene is still remaining the most widely researched 2D material, the discovery of 2D titanium carbide (Ti3C2) by Drexel University researchers in 2011 added a new family of materials known as MXenes to the 2D world. In general, the term MXenes refers to a very large family of 2D transition metal carbides, carbonitrides, and nitrides with the formula Mn+1XnTx, where M represents an early transition metal, X is carbon and/or nitrogen, and T stands for surface termination (such as OH, O, Cl, or F).
Research on MXenes is ongoing in more than 40 countries, with China leading in the number of publications. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the 1st International Conference on MXenes for Energy was organized at Jilin University in 2018. It attracted about 200 researchers. The 2nd International Conference on MXenes is expected to have twice the number of attendees and will also cover all areas of applications of MXenes, including but not limited to energy storage and generation, electromagnetic interference shielding, antennas, transparent conductors, gas and pressure sensors, water purification, gas separation membranes, photo- and electrocatalysis, medicine and plasmonics. Due to a large variety of transition metals and surface functionalities, MXenes’ properties can be tuned by selecting combinations of transition metals, X elements, and controlling their surface chemistries. There are endless and quickly expanding opportunities for producing MXenes with desirable properties.
Leading Chinese and foreign researchers working on MXenes will be giving plenary and invited talks at the conference. We hope that this conference will provide a forum for scientists from all over the world, both theorists and experimentalists, to meet and share information about synthesis, fundamental properties and applications of this quickly expanding family of 2D materials.
Conference co-chairs Prof. Bin Xu (Beijing University of Chemical Technology) and Prof. Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University and Jilin University) are looking forward to seeing you in Beijing!
Read more about the conference on www.MXenes2019.org
Congratulations and thank you to our collaborators from TU Wien and CEST for very interesting work and making it published! In this work, an upscalable electrochemical MXene synthesis is presented. Yields of up to 60% electrochemical MXene (EC-MXene) with no byproducts from a single exfoliation cycle are achieved.
Thank you to our collaborators for the amazing joint work recently published in Graphene and 2D Nanomaterials about MXene–silk fibroin composite films aiming to develop materials with tunable electronic and thermal properties
Congratulations to all collaborators with this interesting joint work!
Dr. Oleksiy Gogotsi, director of MRC and Carbon-Ukraine, innovative companies that are among the leaders on the world MXene market, visited 2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit. together with Dr. Maksym Pogorielov, Head of Advanced Biomaterials and Biophysics Laboratory, University of Latvia.
MRC and Carbon-Ukraine team visited the 3rd International MXene conference held at Drexel University on August 5-8, 2024. Conference brought together the best reserchers and leading experts on MXene field. 
Together with colleagues from the University of Latvia, MRC/Carbone Ukraine, Adam Mickiewicz University, University Clinic Essen, and others, we have developed a novel concept involving the binding of antibodies to MXenes. In our research, we utilized anti-CEACAM1 antibodies to develop targeted photo-thermal therapy for melanoma (in vitro), paving the way for future in vivo studies and clinical trials. For the first time, we demonstrate the feasibility of delivering MXenes specifically targeted to melanoma cells, enabling the effective ablation of cancer cells under near-infrared (NIR) light. This new technique opens up vast potential for the application of MXenes in cancer treatment, diagnostics, drug delivery, and many other medical purposes.
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.