MXenes

Mochalin’s work appears in ‘Advanced Materials’

Posted by on January 3, 2023

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, led an international group of experts in MXenes from the United States, Chile and Italy to publish an invited perspective article “Perspectives of 2D MXene Tribology.”

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Chemistry World features research of Mochalin’s group

Posted by on May 4, 2021

Discoveries by Dr. Vadym Mochalin’s research group and colleagues from Argonne National Lab are featured in the Chemistry World article “Super-slippery 2-D material could be ideal lubricant for planetary rovers” published March 24.

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Chemistry professors publish on MXenes

Posted by on February 2, 2021

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. Chenglin Wu, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, study mechanical properties of 2-D transition metal carbides (MXenes) and other 2-D materials.

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Grad student wins materials research poster contest

Posted by on February 2, 2021

Shuohan Huang received the Best Poster Award at the Synthesis, Properties and Applications of 2-D MXenes Symposium during the Spring 2020 Materials Research Society Meeting.

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Grad student wins ‘science as art’ contest

Posted by on September 1, 2020

Shuohan Huang, a Ph.D. student in chemistry, won first place in the Science as Art competition organized by the Materials Research Society. Her advisor is Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry.

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Mochalin lectures in Prague

Posted by on February 4, 2020

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, professor of chemistry, gave two invited seminars at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague on Jan. 16.

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Chemists develop new MXene materials

Posted by on January 6, 2020

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry and Shuohan Huang, an S&T doctoral student in chemistry, teamed up with researchers from three universities to develop 2-D MXene materials for 6G communications.

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Mochalin lectures in Germany on MXene materials

Posted by on November 5, 2019

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, presented an invited lecture on fundamentals of MXene chemistry at the Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium hosted by the Beilstein Institute in Mainz, Germany, in October.

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S&T researchers collaborate, publish in Nature Communications

Posted by on August 6, 2019

Nature Communications published a paper by S&T researchers titled “Adhesion of Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbides (MXenes) and Graphene to Silicon” in July. The authors are:

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Advanced Materials, Nano Energy publish S&T research on new 2-D materials

Posted by on February 6, 2018

Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, describes in recently published papers how a new family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, known as MXenes, could be used to harvest wasted frictional energy.

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