EuroMXene 2026
Three of us (Pratiksha Thombre, Arunoda Lakmal, and Chris Shuck) traveled to Dublin Ireland to attend the EuroMXene 2026 conference. It was a wonderful week of science, networking, and community-building, … Read More
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Shuck Lab Wins Fulcrum Award!
I’m grateful to have received the Individual Fulcrum Award from the Rutgers Research Council for my project, “Designing Predictive Descriptors for MXene Electrochemistry through Work Function and Electronic State Correlations.” … Read More
Congratulations to Gregory York and Pele Townsend!
A big congratulations to Gregory York and Pele Townsend for winning awards at the Jean Wilson Day Celebration. Greg was awarded both the Wright Rieman Award and the ACS … Read More
Rutgers Undergraduate Research Symposium
Very proud of our undergraduate students, Gregory York Jr, Kristin Chang, Pele Townsend, and Augustus Figenshu, for their wonderful poster presentations at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Each is leading their … Read More
Congratulations Arunoda and Pratiksha!
Congratulations toArunoda Lakmal and Pratiksha Thombre on well-deserved recognition of their outstanding work and contributions. Arunoda Lakmal received the Zhou Fellowship and CCB Service Award, and Pratiksha Thombre received the … Read More
X-Site Dependency of Optical and Electronic Properties in Ti3(C2–yNy)Tx Carbonitride MXenes
Arunoda’s first 1st author paper was published in Chemistry of Materials! MXenes, a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides with the general formula of Mn+1XnTx (where M represents … Read More
Birthday
Happy Birthday Chris!
Summer Lab Outing 2025
Fun summer lab outing to a bowling place and group lunch at the Mediterranean Grill.
Solid-Solution MXenes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Read the article here! MXenes, among other two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, hexagonal BN, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), 2D metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), and covalent organic frameworks (COFs), are the … Read More
Basic Science Funding Creates Sustained Long-Term Benefits
Government funding for basic science research is vital. Without funding from NSF, DOE, DOD, NIST, etc., it would be impossible for professors to do the research that we love. But, … Read More