Materials Research Centre

06/04/2026

04/02/2026

📢✨ We highly recommend checking out new paper:
“Critical Assessment of Intrinsic Antibacterial Properties and Photothermal Therapy Potential of MXene Nanosheets.” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.5c04961

Along with the key findings, we’re also excited to share the Supplementary Cover Art — it beautifully illustrates our vision of MXene-based targeted complexes that can eliminate bacteria via photothermal conversion under near-infrared irradiation. 🔥🦠

15/01/2026

MXenes are well-known as highly biocompatible two-dimensional nanomaterials with a wide range of biomedical applications, including antibacterial strategies. However, the coexistence of high biocompatibility and reported strong antibacterial effects presents a fundamental contradiction that requires...

10/11/2025

Also, don’t miss this remarkable study on the biocompatibility of MXenes — an important contribution for many research directions in materials science and biomedicine.

🧬 The paper, “Effects of Etching and Delamination on Biocompatibility of Ti-Based MXenes”, highlights how surface chemistry critically influences MXene–cell interactions and provides a practical guide to engineering safer MXenes for biomedical applications.

A lot of experimental work went into this research — sincere thanks to all partners and collaborators for their effort and for publishing these important results!

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c08807

This research was supported by two Horizon Europe MSCA-2021-SE-01 projects (№101086184) and (№101131147).

MXenes, a class of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, have emerged as promising candidates for biomedical applications due to their electrical conductivity, photothermal response, and rich surface chemistry. However, their biocompatibility is highly sensitive to synthesis condit...

10/11/2025

We’re excited to share recent article — “2D MXenes in the Design of Heavy Metal Ion Sensors” — available online:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teac.2025.e00270

This review focuses on the application of emerging 2D materials – MXenes – in heavy metal ion sensing systems.
Article discusses their unique surface properties, functionalization capabilities, and applications in detecting lead, copper, mercury, silver, arsenic, and cadmium ions.
The article also compares MXene-based sensors with other materials and explores their action mechanisms.

🙏 Many thanks to our wonderful partners for this work.
We’re excited to keep advancing research in this direction!

10/11/2025

Huge thanks to our collaborators and partners from Lithuania for this exciting and important work! NanoTechnas - Center of Nanotechnology and Materials Science

🎉 New publication from the NanoTechnas team! 🎉

We’re excited to share that our latest paper has been published in Materials Today Nano!
📄 Read it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2588842025001439

🔬 About the work
This study explores the application of pristine Ti3C2Tx MXenes in enzymatic biosensing, focusing on their intrinsic electrochemical properties — without forming nanocomposites.
Incorporating Nafion or Aquivion as binders improved coating uniformity and adhesion of the MXene layer. Optimizing polymer concentration was critical for balancing layer morphology, mechanical stability, and electrochemical activity.

🤝 Collaboration
This work was carried out in collaboration with our colleagues from Materials Research Centre !
A huge thanks to everyone involved for their expertise and teamwork!

25/07/2025

Three-Year Project Aims to Achieve Industrial Production by 2028   Khalifa University of Science and Technology’s Research & Innovation Center for Graphene and 2D Materials (RIC2D) along with partners at the University of Padua (Italy), and Carbon-Ukraine (Ukraine), are working together with the ...