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Wenderott Receives NSF-CAREER Award - Drexel University College of Engineering
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (216+ words) Wenderott Receives NSF-CAREER Award Drexel Anne Stevens Assistant Professor Jill Wenderott has received a five-year NSF-CAREER award for her project "Entropy-driven oxynitrides." These novel ceramic materials are exceptionally strong and possess tunable optical and electronic properties due to their unique…...
A Nanomaterial Flex " MXene Electrodes Help OLED Display Technology Shine, While Bending and Stretching
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (468+ words) Recently reported in'Nature, their work improves on existing technology by integrating a flexible, phosphorescent polymer layer and transparent electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an OLED that can be stretched to 1. 6 times its original size, while maintaining most…...
MXene Current Collectors Could Reduce Size, Improve Recyclability of Li-Ion Batteries
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (209+ words) This is an exciting finding because MXenes are compatible with a variety of electrode materials, so they have the potential to improve next-generation batteries without requiring significant structural design changes," said Professor Patrice Simon, Ph D, a co-author of the…...
Drexel to Lead $5 Million Multinational Effort to Produce MXene Materials for Water Desalination and Medical Diagnostics
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (398+ words) While the material boasts more than 70 patents and has been licensed by the Japanese company Murata Manufacturing Company for development in electronics-related applications, its broad commercialization has been slowed by the lack of a commercial-scale production of materials designed for…...