Joint team makes advance in next-gen displays

Yury Gogotsi, a Member of the Supervisory Board of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and a Professor at Drexel University, USA, has become a key figure in building the next generation stretchable OLED display. He is one of the discoverers of MXenes, the materials that have formed a basis for this breakthrough display technology, leading a team of researchers from Drexel University and Seoul National University.

The Seoul-based team of materials scientists has demonstrated that MXenes can successfully replace brittle indium tin oxide in OLED displays while maintaining high brightness, flexibility, and record efficiency. The next-gen displays maintain stable brightness as they stretch double the size.

According to Professor Gogotsi, this technology paves the way for the potential applications of displays in wearable and embedded electronics, particularly smart wearable health monitors woven into fabric, although further research is still required before commercialisation.

P.S. Prof. Yury Gogotsi, an alumnus of Kyiv Polytechnic, is on the Clarivate list of the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2025. Remarkably, he is listed in three categories – Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials Science.

At present, Yury Gogotsi remains a role model for his Kyiv Polytechnic colleagues. In 1984, he earned his master’s in metallurgy from the Kyiv Polytechnic’s Department of High-Temperature Materials and Powder Metallurgy. In 1986, he earned his PhD, or Candidate of Science, in Physical Chemistry (advisor – Prof. Volodymyr Lavrenko) from Kyiv Polytechnic, becoming at that time the youngest PhD in Chemistry in Ukraine. Recognising his outstanding achievements in science and great contribution to the development of successful collaboration with the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute as its founder and director, the Kyiv Polytechnic Academic Council awarded Yury Gogotsi an honorary doctorate on 14 May 2018.

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