The Carbon-Anatase Dog: Colorized SEM image of nano-anatase (TiO2) crystals decorating amorphous graphene-like carbon, fabricated by oxidizing two-dimensional Ti3C2 powder. The resulting nano-TiO2 carbon sheets hybrid structure showed good performance as an anode material in lithium ion batteries and may have other attractive properties.
In a repeat of their 2012 win, Ph.D. students Babak Anasori (advisor: Michel Barsoum) and Michael Naguib (advisors: Michel Barsoum and Yury Gogotsi) once again brought home the Roland B. Snow Award from the MS&T conference, held October 27 through 31 in Montreal, Quebec. This American Ceramics Society (ACerS) award is “presented to the Best of Show winner of the Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition, an annual poster exhibit to promote the use of microscopy and microanalysis as tools in the scientific investigation of ceramic materials.” Anasori and Naguib’s winning image, “The Carbon-Anatase Dog,” will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. This is the fifth time in the last ten years that Drexel Materials students have earned the Roland B. Snow award.