MXene Pioneer Yury Gogotsi to Deliver Shipley Distinguished Lecture at Clarkson
Internationally recognized materials scientist Yury Gogotsi will visit Clarkson University on Oct. 15 to deliver the 2026 Shipley Distinguished Lecture, offering the Clarkson and North Country communities an opportunity to hear from a pioneer in the development of an emerging class of advanced materials.
The lecture, “Two-Dimensional Materials: Building the Technology of Tomorrow,” will begin at 5 p.m. in Room 362 of Clarkson’s Science Center.
Gogotsi is widely known for pioneering the discovery and development of MXenes, a rapidly expanding family of two-dimensional materials with potential applications in energy storage, electronics, sensing, environmental remediation and other technologies.
He is a Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. His research has helped establish MXenes as a major class of advanced materials now being investigated worldwide for technologies ranging from batteries and supercapacitors to environmental and biomedical applications.
The Shipley Distinguished Lecture was established in 1994 through a gift from the Shipley Family Foundation and was organized for many years by the late Clarkson Professor Egon Matijević. The series brings internationally distinguished scientists and engineers to Clarkson to share transformative advances in science and technology with the University and surrounding communities.
Since its establishment, the series has welcomed 26 leading scientists and engineers, including 11 Nobel Prize laureates. In addition to providing the public with access to prominent researchers, the lecture series fosters scientific exchange and gives Clarkson undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to interact directly with distinguished scholars.
For additional information about the lecture, contact Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson’s Egon Matijević Endowed Chair, at eandrees@clarkson.edu.
