Yury Gogotsi

Yury Georgievich Gogotsi (born December 16, 1961) is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States since 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology.

In 1984 Yury Gogotsi received his Masters of Science (M.S.) degree in metallurgy from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Department of high-temperature materials and powder metallurgy.

In 1986 he received his Ph.D. Candidate of Science in Physical Chemistry (advisor – prof. V.A.Lavrenko), at that time — the youngest Ph.D. in Chemistry in Ukraine, from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

1992—1993 — Research scientist, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

University of Karlsruhe, Germany

1993—1995 — Research scientist at the Center for Materials Research, NATO/Norwegian Research Council Fellowship

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

1995 he received a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree in Materials Engineering from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Drexel University College of Engineering, Philadelphia, United States

1995—1996 — Research Scientist

University of Oslo, Norway

1996—1999 — Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

University of Tübingen, Germany

1999—2000 — Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with tenure;

1999—2000 — Assistant Director, UIC Research Resources Center;

2000—present — Professor of Materials Science and Engineering;

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States

2001—present — Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (courtesy appointment);

2001—2003 — Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering ;

2002—2007 — Associate Dean of the College of Engineering for Special Projects;

2002—present — Professor of Chemistry (courtesy appointment);

2003—present — Founder and Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (since 2014 – A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute);

Prof. Yury Gogotsi produced several publications (Science, 2006; Science 2010; Science 2011, etc.), with the Simon/Gogotsi review in Nature Materials published in 2008 currently being the most cited article (Web of Science) in the electrochemical capacitors (supercapacitors) field.

Gogotsi was a part of the team that discovered a new family of two-dimensional (2D) carbides and nitrides — MXenes that show exceptional potential for energy storage and other applications.

He developed a general approach to synthesis of porous and low-dimensional materials using selective extraction of elements/components, which can be used to generate carbide-derived porous carbons, carbon nanotubes, graphene, 2D carbides, etc.

He described new forms of carbon, such as conical and polygonal crystals.

He also discovered a new metastable phase of silicon.

His work on phase transformations under contact load contributed to the field of high-pressure surface science.

He was the first to conduct hydrothermal synthesis of carbon nanotubes and show the anomalous slow movement of water in functionalized carbon nanotubes by in situ electron microscopy.

This study ultimately led to development of nanotube-tipped single-cell probes.

Gogotsi is the co-author of two books, editor of 14 books, has more than 100 publications in conference proceedings, and more than 800 articles in peer reviewed journals, credited on more than 80 European and US patents (more than 30 licensed to industry) and more than 250 plenary, keynote and invited lectures and seminars.

He has been cited over 100,000 times and currently has an h-index of 175 (Google Scholar) / 152 (Web of Science).

2008—present — Trustee Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering;

2010—present — Distinguished University Professor;

Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor of materials science at Drexel University — director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (since 2014 – A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute).

Presently, Professor Y. Gogotsi leads a scientific research group that develops new nanostructured carbon materials (nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, carbide-derived carbon, onion-like carbon) and works on the hydrothermal synthesis of carbon nanostructures and ceramics.

He also contributed to development of effective water desalination and capacitive deionization techniques, electrical energy storage — batteries and supercapacitors, as well as applications of carbon nanomaterials for energy and biomedicine.

Gogotsi's work (together with P. Simon) on the relations between the structure and capacitive performance of carbon nanomaterials led to a scientific progress in the field and ultimately resulted in the development of a new generation of supercapacitors that facilitate the storage and utilization of electrical energy.

05/2017–present — Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Endowed Professor;

In the Stanford’s list of top 2% researchers in the world across all scientific disciplines, Yury Gogotsi was ranked #53 in 2019 among all living and deceased scientists.