December 2017
Armin’s SEM Image titled “Nano Nemo (MXene) on the Water” won the JEOL USA’s 2017 Grand SEM Prize. Please see the following links for more information.
https://www.jeolusa.com/BLOG/PostId/296/science-and-art-combine-for-winning-sem-images
Download the 2018 JEOL USA’s Calendar https://www.jeolusa.com/Portals/2/imagecontest/2018-Calendar.pdf
November 2017
Armin won the best poster award of the Materials Engineering department at the Auburn University’s College of Engineering Research Showcase.
Jafar won the honorary place for his poster at the Auburn University’s College of Engineering Research Showcase.
September 2017
Dr. Beidaghi, Armin VahidMohammadi, and Jafar Orangi Attended the 232nd ECS Fall meeting held in National Harbor, M.D.
Jafar presented his poster titled “Development and Optimization of Capacitive Deionization for Treatment of High-Strength Agricultural Waters” in the ECS Meeting. He won the best poster award in their symosium, congratulations to him!
Armin presented two talks titled “Hybrid Electrodes of Conducting Polymers and Two-Dimensional Ti3C2(MXene) for Li and Na Ion Storage” and “Aluminum Intercalation and High Capacity of Two-Dimensional (2D) Vanadium Carbide (MXene) Cathode in Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries” in addition to a poster titled “Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides (MXenes): A Large Family of Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries” in the ECS meeting.
August 2017
Dr. Beidaghi and Emre Kayali Attended the XXVI International Materials Research Congress 2017 held in Cancun, Mexico.
Dr. Beidaghi presented his talk titled “Cathode Materials for Aluminum Batteries” at the XXVI International Materials Research Congress 2017 held in Cancun, Mexico.
Emre presented his talk titled “Effect of Processing on the Lateral Size, Number of Layers, and Electrochemical Performance of 2D MXenes” at the XXVI International Materials Research Congress 2017 held in Cancun, Mexico.
April 2017
Dr. Beidaghi attended the 2017 MRS Spring meeting held in Phoenix, AZ.
Dr. Beidaghi presented his talk titled “Two-Dimensional Vanadium Carbide (MXene) as a High Capacity Cathode Material for Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries” at the 2017 MRS Spring meeting held in Phoenix, AZ.
Congratulations to Armin VahidMohammadi and Jafar Orangi for being awarded “Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP Round 12)” fellowship.
March 2016
Armin’s SEM image titled “Nano Nemo on the Water” won the JEOL USA’s March 2017 image contest. Congratulations to him. Check more on the winning image in the following link:
https://www.jeolusa.com/HOME/Misc/JEOL-USA-Image-Contest-Entries-Winners
December 15, 2016
Check Inside Science magazine’s interview with Dr. Beidaghi and Armin about their winning image in 2016 MRS Fall Meeting “Science as Art” competition in Boston.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/making-art-materials-science
December 1, 2016
Armin’s SEM image titled “Nano Lord Voldemort” won the first place in 2016 MRS Fall Meeting “Science as Art” competition in Boston. Congratulations to him.
Check the winning image and find out more information about the competition in the following links.
http://www.mrs.org/science-as-art
http://materials.typepad.com/mrs_meeting_scene/
November 2016
Dr. Beidaghi and Armin VahidMohammadi attended the 2016 MRS Fall meeting held in Boston, MA.
Armin presented his talk titled “In Situ Polymerization of Conducting Polymers on Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides (MXenes) for Hybrid Electrodes with High Gravimetric and Volumetric Capacitances” at the 2016 MRS Fall meeting held in Boston, MA.
May 15, 2016
Welcome to our new Ph.D. students, Emre Kayali and Jafar Orangi who joined our group this semester.
April 26, 2016
Congratulations to Armin for being awarded “Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP Round 11)” fellowship.
April 6, 2016
Welcome to Andrew Tormanen who joined our group as an undergraduate researcher.
August 28, 2015
Congratulations to Armin for being awarded Auburn University’s college of engineering Woltsoz Fellowship and becoming the 2015-2016 Woltsoz fellow of Materials Engineering department.