Handan Balıkçı defended her thesis successfully on Jan 18th. The study showed that a two-sided strain sensor with different graphene nanoplatelet ink concentrations can be used in a dynamic range and exhibited promising outcomes to be used in wearable devices. A sensor with two high gauge factors, working linear in different strains! Thanks Handan and we would like to express our special thanks to our university’s EEE department, Micro Nano Systems Laboratory, for their extraordinary support within the scope of this study.

A brand new publication entitled as “Electrostatic Repulsive Features of Free-standing Titanium Dioxide Nanotube-based Membranes in Biofiltration Applications” in collaboration with Dr. Melis Sardan Ekiz from HUNITEK has just been published in ACS Langmuir. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03331The work is based on the Bogac’s MSc studies which has been defended in last summer.

Additionally, the work has been featured as the front cover of the related issue!

Zahid successfully defenden his thesis on Dec 26th. Zahid showed that not only the heteroatom doping of graphene, but also sp2 domain size and side group functionalizations have a significant effect on the charge storage capacity of graphene-based electrodes. Thanks!