News
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.
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.