April 30, 2024 - Kaitlin McKenzie, a senior chemical engineering major, earned the first-place award for Technical Presentation at the (AIChE) regional meeting April 6 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
McKenzie, whose research in the lab of faculty advisor Mona Bavarian is partially supported by the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship, presented “The Sustainable Production of Wool Textile-Based Supercapacitors Using MXenes."
The project’s objective is to investigate the electrochemical properties of textile-based supercapacitors fabricated with conductive fibers prepared by using two dimensional metal carbide nanosheets (MXene) self-assembled on yarns. For this project, vanadium-based and titanium-based MXenes were used.