March 19, 2008	Drexel has been noted in a story published in the Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) and on NanoWerk.com on March 14, 2008, and on SolancoNews.com on March 16 about Gov. Rendell's $9.7 million plan for nanotechnology projects.  The story also appeared in the Philadelphia Business Journal March 17. Click here for the full story.
February 21, 2008	The Gogotsi group publishes papers about supercapacitors in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and in Angewandte Chemie International Edition with French collaborators.  Click here to read more.
August 2, 2007	Prof. Yury Gogotsi is featured on NanoScienceWorks.org.
July 3, 2007	Prof. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. Vadym Mochalin have been featured on the front page of the June 29 to July 5, 2007, weekly edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal for their collaboration with NanoBlox Inc.  Click here to read more, or e-mail us for additional information.
January 18, 2007	Drexel University has recently patented and licensed a novel technology for nanodiamond purification to NanoBlox Inc., a private company headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.  Please click here to read the full story.
January 17, 2007	Dr. Cristelle Portet, post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the prestigious DGA Prize from the French Minister of Research and the French Minister of Defense at a ceremony in Paris on January 22. Please click here to read more. Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student John Chmiola has been selected to receive a travel fellowship, supported by the National Science Foundation, to attend the European Ceramic Society Meeting in Berlin, Germany from June 17-21, 2007.  Chmiola, who is advised by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, has received NSF IGERT and Graduate Research Fellowships to support his Ph.D. study.  He will present a talk titled “Transforming Carbide Ceramics to Carbon: A Way to Advanced Supercapacitors” at the meeting in Berlin .
January 3, 2007	The Materials Characterization Facility was highlighted on Small Times last month.  Click here to read more.
January 2, 2007	Best Wishes for 2007 from the DNI!  Click here to preview (PDF) the 2007 calendar featuring colored micrographs from DNI faculty and students' research.  E-mail us if you'd like a copy!
November 16, 2006	Dee Breger, Director of Microscopy, was noted in an article in the New York Times Science section on Tuesday, November 14th, about the possible impact of a comet or asteroid nearly 5,000 years ago, which may have caused a "mega-tsunami."   Also, Breger was featured in a Chicago Tribune article from November 1st.  Some of her work is on display at an ongoing exhibition at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
November 13, 2006	Drexel received two Nano50 awards at the National Nano Engineering Conference in Boston, MA, November 9-10.  Dr. Gleb Yushin, research assistant professor, accepted a Technology Award on behalf of the carbide-derived carbon (CDC) development team.  Dr. Yury Gogotsi received an Innovator Award.  The Nano50 awards are sponsored by Nanotech Briefs.  For more information, please click here.
November 8, 2006	DNI was mentioned in a recent article in the Philadelphia Business Journal about the Delaware Valley's advantage in nanotechnology research and commercialization.
November 7, 2006	Two former participants in Drexel/Penn Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) programs received travel awards to attend the National Science Teachers Association regional meeting in Baltimore, MD, November 2-4: Mr. Keyvan Sadigh (RET '05) and Ms. Vijayalakshmi Karri (RET '06).  A networking session for RET participants was held on November 3 as part of the NSTA meeting.  The networking session and the travel award program were organized by Northeastern University and funded by the National Science Foundation.
November 6, 2006	The Materials Pennsylvania Coalition (MatPAC) will be offering the following courses for the spring 2007 semester: Advanced Characterization and Microstructural Analysis Materials for Nanotechnology Formation and Structure of Glass See the MatPAC web site for further details. (Click on "Courses Offered.")
October 30, 2006	A team of researchers including DNI Director Yury Gogotsi, NSF-IGERT Fellow Liz Hoffman, Prof. Michel Barsoum, and Research Assistant Professor Gleb Yushin, and partners at the University in Brighton (U.K) report work that may lead to significant improvements in the treatment of sepsis, an human immune response which causes around 1,500 worldwide deaths daily.  This work has already received coverage in the Drexel Daily Digest, Infection Control Today, Newswise, and physorg.com.  Click here to read more.
October 26, 2006	DNI and the College of Engineering celebrated the official opening of the Centralized Research Facilities on October 25, 2006 with a full day of events.  Click here for more information.  Or click here to view the photo album.
October 19, 2006	DNI hosted nine 9-12 year olds for a presentation on nanotechnology and a tour of some research laboratories today.  The students, all home-schooled, have formed a team to participate in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, an international annual event for which this year's theme is "Nano Quest: Exploring Existing Sciences at the Molecular Level."  Click here to view the photo album.
August 21, 2006	DNI is pleased to welcome Global Protection to the Materials & Nanotechnology Consortium. Click here to read more.
August 17, 2006	IGERT and NSF Graduate Fellow John Chmiola, advisor Yury Gogotsi, and colleagues Gleb Yushin, Cristelle Portet, and others from the Universite Paul Sabatier in France have published a paper in Science magazine. The paper describes a groundbreaking discovery related to pore sizes of the electrode material in supercapacitors. Click here to read more.
July 26, 2006	DNI is pleased to welcome Headwaters Technology Innovation Group to the Materials & Nanotechnology Consortium. Click here to read more.
June 28, 2006	Prof. Yury Gogotsi is a 2006 Nano 50 award winner. Click here to read more. Or for a complete list of Nano 50 award winners, visit the Nanotech Briefs web site.
June 21, 2006	Drs. Yury Gogotsi and Gary Friedman and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the Uiversity of Illinois at Chicago received a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation for their Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) project "Nanotube-based Nanofluidic Devices and Fundamental Fluid Studies at the Nanoscale."
June 21, 2006	Seven high school students who are taking part in the Summer Nanobiotech Camp hosted by Montgomery County Community College came to Drexel today for a field trip. The students saw presentations and demonstrations in various labs in the College of Engineering: the Microfabrication Facility, Dr. Jaydev Desai's medical robotics, the new Zeiss scanning electron microscope, and the Raman spectroscopy lab. Click here to view the photo album.
June 19, 2006	Three NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites hosted by Drexel University's College of Engineering are off to a successful start. The programs run through August 25, 2006. To find out more about these programs, follow the links to their web sites: DREAM: Drexel Research Experiences in Advanced Materials Sensors from Design to Implementation Engineering Cities
May 24, 2006	DNI Director Yury Gogotsi gave an address at the Science National Honor Society Induction Ceremony at Council Rock North High School May 23rd, 2006.
May 3 , 2006	DNI announces the structure of Centralized Research Facilities. Click here to read the story.
May 3 , 2006	Drexel Undergrad Creates 'Nano Blog' Click here to read the story.
April 28, 2006	Work done by Dr. Jonathan Spanier, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and DNI Co-Director, and colleagues has received extensive coverage on various news sites: PhysOrg.com , PoliticalGateway.com, LinuxElectronics.com, DailyIndia.com, TCMNet.com, PostChronicle.com, MonstersAndCritics.com, CCNMag.com, NewKerala.com, Playfuls.com, YubaNet.com, ScienceDaily.com, TechnologyNewsDaily, and newscientisttech.com, as well as internal sites and e-newsletters at Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania. Spanier collaborated with researchers at Penn and Harvard University to study the benefits of using water to stabilize memory bits in segments of oxide nanowires that are only about 3 billionths of a meter wide. The work was reported in the April Issue of Nano Letters. Click here to read more.
April 13 , 2006	Several images produced by Dee Breger, Director of Microscopy, have recently been used or will be used in some highly visible sources: Dr. Herwig Ott, Institut für Physik Universität Mainz, Scientific talk about quantum optics and ultracold quantum gases (Radiolarian image) College text Exploring the World Ocean, 1E, by Chamberlin/Dickey (Radiolarian image) Quarter page print advertisement to be used twice each in the journals Biotechniques, Nature Methods, and Nature by Cambrex Bio Science as well as a direct mailer (10,000 copies) (Velcro image) Avery Pix Inc./New Line Cinema as set dressing in motion picture "Mimzy" (four microplankton images) Now preparing 5th of 6-10 images for Telicom, journal of the Int'l Soc for Philos Enquiry Walking macrophage image in children's book "I Found a Dead Bird: A Kid's Guide to the Cycle of Life" by Jan Thornhill (fall, 2006) by Maple Tree Press Radiolarian image on cover of 2005 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory development brochure 25,000 copies of direct mailer for pharmaceutical client by Fire & Rain Co.
April 5 , 2006	Yury Gogotsi was quoted in an article titled "Storing Hydrogen in Polymer Pores" in Chemical & Engineering News. Click here to read the article online.
March 31, 2006	Work by the Spanier group may shed light on the expanding role of silicon in photonics. Click here to read more.
March 10, 2006	Work by Goknur Z. Cambaz, Gleb N. Yushin, Yury Gogotsi, and Vadim G. Lutsenko was featured on the cover of the March 8, 2006 issue of Nano Letters (Vol. 6, Issue 03). Click here to view a PDF version of the cover image.
January 25 , 2006	Drexel nanotech startup Reacta Corporation was featured in an article in IPLinks, an innovation and technology e-newsletter for the Philadelphia region. Click here to read the article.
January 9 , 2006	Ph.D. candidate Maria Pia Rossi (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) won the Graduate Student Technical Paper Competition organized by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) at the National Technical and Career Conference, held January 4-8, 2006. The topic of Pia's paper was "Using carbon nanopipes in nanofluidic devices for cell injection."
December 21 , 2005	Holiday Greetings from the DNI
December 8 , 2005	An article in yesterday's IP Links (Volume 3 Issue 11) highlights nanotechnology in the Mid-Atlantic Region (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware). Click here to read the article.
November 28 , 2005	Catch Prof. Yury Gogotsi on The Drexel InterView on DUTV tomorrow, Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 8:00 PM. The episode will be rebroadcast at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, November 30; Saturday, December 3; Sunday, December 4; and Monday, December 5. The interview originally aired last year. For more information on The Drexel InterView, go to http://www.drexel.edu/univrel/events/drexel_interview.html.
November 23 , 2005	The Nanomaterials Handbook (CRC Press) will soon hit the shelves. Prof. Yury Gogotsi is the editor, and DNI affiliated faculty members Michel Barsoum, Frank Ko, Giuseppe Palmese, and Jonathan Spanier have contributed chapters. The book can be ordered from Amazon.com and other retailers.
October 27, 2005	Mr. Michael Boyer, a teacher at North Penn High School and participant in the NSF-sponsored RETAIN and RET-Nano programs, has been awarded a total of $12,000 in grants to assist with the development of The Future is N.E.A.R. (Nanotechnology Education And Research) program at North Penn High School. Click here to see the first issue of the program's newsletter.
October 21, 2005	Drexel College of Engineering, the DNI, and the University of Pennsylvania's NanoBio Interface Center hosted a poster session and reception for the RETAIN and RET-Nano programs on Tuesday, October 18, 2005. Click here to read more.
October 5, 2005	Drexel, the DNI, and the Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium were mentioned in an article on yahoo.com and other internet sites about the formation of a Nanotechnology Commercialization Group through the Nanotechnology Institute. Click here to read the article.
October 4, 2005	As of October 2005, five companies have signed up and become members of Drexel University's Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium, and more are currently negotiating agreements. Click here to read more.
September 29, 2005	Catch Professors Yury Gogotsi and Frank Ko and Ph.D. students Donia El-Khamy and Jennifer Atchison Saturday October 15th at 7:30 PM on "Prime Time Weekend" on ABC 6. The program will feature Drexel's work in nanotechnology, nanofibers and spider silk, as well as outreach activities Drexel has used to educate high school students about nanotechnology.
September 27, 2005	Dr. Nily Dan (Chemical and Biological Engineering) was featured in an article on physorg.com and nanotech-now.com about work she and colleagues from Drexel and Georgia Institute of Technology reported at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society on August 28th, 2005. Click here to read the article.
August 25, 2005	The A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI) announces the launch of its redesigned website. Click here for more details.
April 26, 2005	Many nanotechnology research projects were honored at Drexel's Seventh Annual Research Day. Click here for more details.
April 25, 2005	Faculty, staff and students represented Drexel at the Pennsylvania Nanotechnology Conference 2005: "The Business of Nanotechnology," in Pittsburgh April 18-20. Click here for the full story.
April 12, 2005	Three Drexel Ph.D. students received NSF Graduate Fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year: Kate Allen (advisor: Brad Layton), Kris Behler (advisor: Yury Gogotsi), and Derek Halverson (advisor: Gary Friedman)
March 2 , 2005	DNI Director Yury Gogotsi recieves the College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award as part of Drexel's celebration of Engineers' Week.