Dr. Yury Gogotsi

Education

• D.Sc.    Materials Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, 1995
• Ph.D.     Physical Chemistry, Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine, 1986
• M.S.        Metallurgy, Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine, 1984 (with Honors, 5.0 perfect GPA)
  

Professional History

• Drexel University
  08/2000 – present    Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
  02/2003 – present    Director, A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (http://nano.drexel.edu)
  11/2001 – present    Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (courtesy appointment)
  12/2002 – 08/2007    Associate Dean of the College of Engineering for Special Projects
  09/2002 – 09/2006    Assistant Professor of Chemistry (courtesy appointment)
• University of Illinois at Chicago
  9/2001-8/2003    Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  1999-2000    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with tenure
  1999-2000    Assistant Director, UIC Research Resources Center
  1996 –1999    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• University of Tübingen, Germany
  1995 - 1996        Research Scientist
• Center for Materials Research, University of Oslo, Norway
  1993 - 1995    NATO/Norwegian Research Council Fellowship
• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  1992 - 1993    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
• University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  1990 - 1992    A. von Humboldt Fellowship
  
• Institute for Materials Science, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  1986 - 1990     Research Associate
  

Honors and Awards

• 2006    Nano 50 Awards from NASA Tech Briefs Magazine, in Innovator and Technology categories
• 2006    Best Paper Award, American Society for Composites
  
• 2005    Fellow, American Ceramic Society
  
• 2005    Fellow, The World Innovation Foundation
  
• 2005    Drexel University College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award
  
• 2004    Academician, World Academy of Ceramics
  
• 2003    R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine
  
• 2003    Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society (also in 2005 and 2007)
  
• 2002    S. Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS)
  
• 2002    G.C. Kuczynski Prize from the International Institute for the Science of Sintering
  
• 2002    Full Member, International Institute for the Science of Sintering
  
• 2002    Research Achievement Award from Drexel University
  
• 2002-2004    106 Club of Drexel University (more than $1M external funding per year)
  
• 2001        Winner of the Collegiate Inventors Competition (student advisor)
  
• 1999    UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award
  
• 1998    NSF CAREER Award
  
• 1993    I.N. Frantsevich Prize from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Featured Publications

• J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, C. Portet, P. Simon, and P. L. Taberna, Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer, Science, 313, 1760-1763 (2006)
• H. Ye, N. Titchenal, Y. Gogotsi, F. Ko, SiC Nanowires Synthesized from Electrospun Nanofiber Templates, Advanced Materials, 17, 1535-1539 (2005)
• N. Naguib, H. Ye, Y. Gogotsi, A.G. Yazicioglu, C.M. Megaridis, M. Yoshimura, Observation of water confined in nanometer channels of closed carbon nanotubes, Nano Letters, 4 (11) 2237-2243 (2004)
• Y. Gogotsi, A. Nikitin, H. Ye, W. Zhou, J.E. Fischer, B. Yi, H. C. Foley, M. W. Barsoum, Nanoporous carbide-derived carbon with tuneable pore size, Nature Materials, 2 (9) 591–594 (2003)
• F. Ko, Y. Gogotsi, A. Ali, N. Naguib, H. Ye, G. Yang, C. Li, P. Willis, Electrospinning of Continuous Carbon Nanotube-Filled Nanofiber Yarns, Advanced Materials 15 (14), 1161-1165 (2003)
• Y. Gogotsi, S. Welz, D.A. Ersoy, M.J. McNallan, Conversion of Silicon Carbide to Crystalline Diamond-Structured Carbon at Ambient Pressure, Nature, 411, 283-287 (2001)
• Y. Gogotsi, J. A. Libera, A. Güvenç-Yazicioglu, C. M. Megaridis, In-situ multi-phase fluid experiments in hydrothermal carbon nanotubes, Appl. Phys. Lett., 79 (7), 1021-1023 (2001)
• Y. Gogotsi, J.A. Libera, N. Kalashnikov, and M. Yoshimura, Graphite Polyhedral Crystals, Science, 290, 317-320 (2000)
• V. Domnich, Y. Gogotsi, S. Dub, Effect of phase transformations on the shape of the unloading curve in the nanoindentation of silicon, Appl. Phys. Lett., 76, 2214-2216 (2000)
• Y. Gogotsi, A. Kailer, K.G. Nickel, Transformation of Diamond to Graphite, Nature, 401, 663-664 (1999)

Featured Books Edited

• Y. Gogotsi (Ed.), Nanomaterials Handbook (CRC Press, Boca Raton) 2006, 800 pp.
• Y. Gogotsi, V. Domnich (Eds.), High Pressure Surface Science and Engineering (Institute of Physics Publ., Bristol, UK, 2003) 648 pp.