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TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE - YUCOMAT 2022 TWELFTH WORLD ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE ON SINTERING - XII WRTCS 2022 Herceg Novi, August 29 – September 2, 2022
YUCOMAT conference included the participation of renowned plenary speakers, oral presentations, poster sessions and symposia related to contemporary programmes in the field of advance materials and nanotechnologies as well as an attractive social and cultural programme organised by Materials Research Society of Serbia and supported by FEMS. Big thanks to the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) for providing a grant to support Ukrainian scientists.
Our collaborators and partners presented our joint research at the Yucomat conference - at Symposium on Biomaterials and two collaborative posters at Conference Poster Session.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Particular emphasis is placed on the following topics, but are not limited to: Theory and technology of solid state and liquid phase sintering – fundamental and applied aspects; Grain boundary phenomena for advanced materials; Novel sintering methods: sintering under high pressure; shocked wave sintering; cold sintering; severe plastic deformation; low temperature sintering; hot pressing and hot isostatic pressing; laser sintering; spark plasma sintering; flash sintering; Controlled synthesis and processing of nanomaterials; Processing and properties of high-entropy materials; Microstructuralcontrol during sintering at multiple scales from nano to macro level o Hybride organic-inorganic materials; Sintering in additive manufacturing; Application of sintering theory in advance technology.
Symposium on Biomaterials:
PCL-MXene composite electrospun membrane for nerve regeneration: structural and biological assessment
Kateryna Diedkova1, Yevhen Samokhin1, Veronika Zahorodna2, Ivan Baginskiy2, Vitalii Balitskyi2, Oleksiy Gogotsi2, Viktoriia Korniienko1
1 Sumy State University, 31 Sanatorna St, Sumy 40007, Ukraine,
2 Materials Research Centre, 3 Krzhizhanovskogo St, Kyiv 03680, Ukraine
Pulsed NIR laser for photo-thermal ablation of MXene-loaded cells.
Maksym Pogorielov 1,2, Sergiy Kyrylenko 1, Oleksiy Gogotsi 3, Ivan Baginskiy 3, Vitalii Balitskyi 3, Veronika Zahorodna 3, Yevheniia Husak 1,4, Ilya Yanko 1, Mykolay Pernakov 1, Anton Roshchupkin 1, Mykola Lyndin 1, Bernhard B. Singer 5, Volodymyr Buranych 1, Oksana Sulaieva 7, Oleksandr Solodovnyk 1,8, Alexander Pogrebnjak 1,6, Yury Gogotsi 1,9
1 Sumy State University, 31 Sanatorna St, Sumy 40007, Ukraine
2 University of Latvia, 3 Jelgavas St, Riga LV-1004, Latvia
3 Materials Research Centre, 3 Krzhizhanovskogo St, Kyiv 03680, Ukraine
4 Silesian University of Technology, 2A Akademicka St, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
5 University Duisburg-Essen, 171 Virchowstraße, Essen 45147, Germany
6 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
7 Medical Laboratory CSD, 45 Vasylkivska St, Kyiv 02000, Ukraine
8 VERBA MEDICAL LTD, 31А Lushpy St, Sumy 40035, Ukraine
9 Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
POSTER SESSION
Upscaling the manufacture of MAX phases and MXenes synthesis
Ivan Baginskiy 1, Oleksiy Gogotsi 1,2, Vitalii Balitskyi 1, Veronika Zahorodna 1,2, Iryna Roslyk 1, Ivan Hryshko 1, Chris Shuck 3, Mikhail Shekhirev 3, Stepan Vorotylo 3, Yury Gogotsi 3
1 Materials Research Center, 3, Krzhyzhanovskogo street, Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine
2 Y-Carbon ltd, 18, Vasilevskoy street, Kyiv, 04116, Ukraine
3 A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, U.S.A
Femtosecond laser nanostructuring of MXene Films
I. Gnilitskyi 1,2, O. Gogotsi 3,4, V. Zahorodna 3,4, I. Baginskiy 3,4, V. Babizhetskyi 5, C. P. T McPolin 8, S. Bellucci 6, Y. Gogotsi 7 and A. V. Zayats 8
1 NoviNano Lab LLC, Pasternaka 5, 79015 Lviv, Ukraine
2 Department of Applied Physics, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine
3 Materials Research Center, 3, Krzhizhanovskogo Str., 03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
4 Y-Carbon Ltd., 18, Vandy Vasilevskoy Str., 04116 Kyiv, Ukraine
5 Faculty of Chemistry, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kyryla and Mefodia 6, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine
6 INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 54, 00044 Frascati, Italy
7 A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
8 Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK





MXenes potential applications include sensors, wound healing materials, and drug delivery systems. A recent study explored how different synthesis methods affect the safety and performance of MXenes. By comparing etching conditions and intercalation strategies, researchers discovered that fine-tuning the surface chemistry of MXenes plays a crucial role in improving biocompatibility. These results provide practical guidelines for developing safer MXenes and bring the field one step closer to real biomedical applications.
Exellent news, our joint patent application with Drexel University on highly porous MAX phase precursor for MXene synthesis published. Congratulations and thanks to all team involved!
Last Call! Have you submitted your abstract for IEEE NAP-2025 yet? Join us at the International Symposium on "The MXene Frontier: Transformative Nanomaterials Shaping the Future" – the largest MXene-focused conference in Europe this year! Final Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to showcase your research and engage with world leaders in the MXene field!
We are excited to announce the publication of latest review article on MXenes in Healthcare. This comprehensive review explores the groundbreaking role of MXenes—an emerging class of 2D materials—in revolutionizing the fields of medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR04853A.
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.
Congratulations to all collaborators with this interesting joint work!
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
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.
