THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE YUCOMAT 2023
Hunguest Hotel Sun Resort, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
September 4 - 8, 2023
The conference was organised by the Materials Research Society of Sebia and supported by MRS-Singapore with the participation of a pleiad of distinguished scientists - Dr. Knut W. Urban, Department of Physics RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Dr. Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA; Dr. Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University, USA; Dr. Lei Jiang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Dr. Paul S. Weiss, University of California, USA; Dr. Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; Dr. John A. Rogers, Northwestern University, USA; Dr. Arumugam Manthiram, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; Dr. Vladimir P. Torchilin, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; and other famous speakers.
Drexel University and MRS Serbia, with support from the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) that provided travel and registration, support to Ukrainian scientists on the 24th YUCOMAT Conference.
The program of this year's conference included 5 plenary sessions at which 19 invited lectures were delivered; 4 oral sessions where 50 talks were given; and 3 poster sessions where more than 100 works exhibited.
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.
Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MX-MAP project will develop key strategies for MXene medical applications. The long-term goal of MX-MAP is to create a pipeline using new MXene nanomaterials for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of immunological compatibility in biomedical applications. This international research/training programme aims to support the career development of young researchers with an interdisciplinary vision of science.
Collaborative works of MRC with Sumy State University and University of Latvia presented at the YUCOMAT 2023 conference:
Kateryna Diedkova, Alexander D. Pogrebnjak, Sergiy Kyrylenko, Pawel Zukowski, Yevheniia Husak, Wojciech Simka, Viktoriia Korniienko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Una Riekstina, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Yury Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov. Novel PCL-MXene electrospun membranes for conductive tissue regeneration. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Yuliia Varava, Volodymyr Deineka, Valeriia Korniienko, Kateryna Diedkova, Viktoriia Korniienko, Veronika Zahorodna, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov. Towards new approaches for ultraviolet sterilization of MXenes. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Inna Chorna, Zhanna Klishchova, Anton Roshchupkin, Ilya Yanko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov, Sergiy Kyrylenko. Genotoxicity of T3C2TxMXene demonstrated by DNA comet assay. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Kateryna Diedkova, Alexander D. Pogrebnjak, Sergiy Kyrylenko, Pawel Zukowski, Yevheniia Husak, Wojciech Simka, Viktoriia Korniienko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Una Riekstina, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Yury Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov. Novel PCL-MXeneelectrospun membranes for conductive tissue regeneration. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Zhanna Klishchova, Inna Chorna, Anton Roshchupkin, Ilya Yanko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov, Sergiy Kyrylenko. Induction of the DNA comets by T3C2Tx MXene is not an artefact of the DNA comet assay. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Inna Chorna, Zhanna Klishchova, Anton Roshchupkin, Ilya Yanko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov, Sergiy Kyrylenko. Genotoxicity of T3C2Tx MXene revealed by the DNA comet assay depends on the size of the MXene flakes. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Inna Chorna, Zhanna Klishchova, Milena Yalyzhko, Anton Roshchupkin, Ilya Yanko, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov, Sergiy Kyrylenko. Genotoxicity of T3C2Tx MXene depends on the size of the MXene flakes. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Kateryna Diedkova, Ilya Yanko, Viktoriia Korniienko, Una Riekstina, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Maksym Pogorielov. MXene-based cardiac patches for regenerative medicine. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Anastasia Konieva, Irina Kube-Golovin, Mykola Lyndyn, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Ivan Baginskiy, Veronika Zahorodna, Oksana Pogorielova, Iryna Roslyk, Igor Iatsunskyi, Maksym Pogorielov, Gunther Wennemuth. Novel MXene-anti-CEACAM1 complex for melanoma targeted treatment. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Collaborative works with Drexel University:
Veronika Zahorodna, Oleksiy Gogotsi, Iryna Roslyk, Ivan Baginskiy, Vitalii Balitskiy, Oksana Peschanska, Serhii Dukhnovskiy, Leonid Yaremenko, Ivan Hryshko, Stepan Vorotilo, Yury Gogotsi. Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) for cost effective sustainable MAX-Phase production without critical raw materials. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Oleksiy Gogotsi, Lingui Bi, Veronika Zahorodna, Iryna Roslyk, Ivan Baginskiy, Vitalii Balitskiy, Oksana Peschanska, Serhii Dukhnovskiy, Leonid Yaremenko, Stanislav Stankevich, Andrey Aniskevich, Yury Gogotsi. Scaling up of the MXene Dip-Coated Yarns production process for smart textiles, wearable electronics and structural monitoring and damage diagnostics. 24th Annual Conference on Material Science, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, September 4-8, 2023
Highlights
We are excited to share that our Carbon-Ukraine (Y-Carbon LLC) company participated in the I2DM Summit and Expo 2025 at Khalifa University in Abu-Dhabi! Huge thanks to Research & Innovation Center for Graphene and 2D Materials (RIC2D) for hosting such a high-level event.It was an incredible opportunity to meet brilliant researchers and innovators working on the next generation of 2D materials. The insights and energy from the summit will definitely drive new ideas in our own development.
Carbon-Ukraine team had the unique opportunity to visit XPANCEO - a Dubai-based deep tech startup company that is developing the first smart contact lenses with AR vision and health monitoring features, working on truly cutting-edge developments.
Our Carbon-Ukraine team (Y-Carbon LLC) are thrilled to start a new RIC2D project MX-Innovation in collaboration with Drexel University Yury Gogotsi and Khalifa University! Amazing lab tours to project collaborators from Khalifa University, great discussions, strong networking, and a wonderful platform for future collaboration.
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.
An excellent review highlighting how MXene-based sensors can help tackle one of today’s pressing environmental challenges — heavy metal contamination. Excited to see such impactful work moving the field of environmental monitoring and sensor technology forward!
Carbon-Ukraine team was truly delighted to take part in the kickoff meeting of the ATHENA Project (Advanced Digital Engineering Methods to Design MXene-based Nanocomposites for Electro-Magnetic Interference Shielding in Space), supported by NATO through the Science for Peace and Security Programme.
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!
Our team was very delighted to take part in International Symposium "The MXene Frontier: Transformative Nanomaterials Shaping the Future" – the largest MXene event in Europe this year! 
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!