INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR - MXenes - a new family of 2D materials, 10.09.2018
The seminar will be held at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, on 10th of September 2018 startig at 9.30 a.m., Wołoska 141 street, room 215.
Recently, the layered early transition metal carbides, nitrides or carbonitrides (called MXenes) have been introduced among numerous fields of science. They are novel and poorly studied family of 2D materials characterized with separated expanded layers with the general formula of Mn+1Xn (n=1, 2, 3). MXenes have attracted both academic and industrial interest due to their intriguing properties. This made the applicability of these materials in many technological areas very attractive.
The main guest of the seminar is scientist Michael Naguib who obtained his PhD in 2014 at Drexel University, USA. During his doctoral studies, Michael co-discovered a large family of MXenes that have promising energy storage applications, including in ion batteries and supercapacitors, was awarded Drexel’s Outstanding promise Doctoral Award, in 2016 he was selected as one of Drexel’s 40 under 40, recognizing 40 alumni under the age of 40 who are breaking new ground and excelling in their fields. Subsequently, he was a Wigner Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked on understanding the effect of surface termination and electronic structure on the electrochemical properties of two-dimensional transition metal based materials including MXenes, and oxides. Michael is also strongly involved in the FIRST Energy Frontier Research Center, which is primarily located within Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and includes researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and seven partner universities including Drexel. Currently, Michael is working at Tulane University as an Assistant Professor in the department of Physics and Engineering Physics.