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IXth International Materials Science Conference HighMatTech-2025
October 6-10, 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine

Plenary Symposium

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Yury Gogotsi

D.Sc., Dr.h.c., Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Distinguished University Professor
Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, USA
Yury Gogotsi is a Distinguished University Professor and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Endowed Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA). He is the founding Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) from Kyiv Polytechnic and a DSc degree from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1995. Together with his students and colleagues, he made principal contributions to the development of materials for electrochemical capacitors and other energy storage devices, discovered MXenes, demonstrated the tuning of structure and porosity of carbide-derived carbons, and developed new processes for the synthesis, surface modification, and purification of nanotubes and nanodiamonds. He also published the first microscopic observation of water inside carbon nanotubes, discovered polygonal nanotubes (graphite polyhedral crystals), and shaped the field of high-pressure surface science.
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Andrey Ragulya

Dr.Sci., Prof., Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine
President of Frantsevich Ukrainian Materials Research Society
Prof. Andrey Ragulya is full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and full member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering. Prof. A. Ragulya received his Ph.D. (1993) and D.Sc. (2001) degrees from the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine. Since 1985 he has been working at Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine in the field of nanomaterials and sintering technology. At the beginning of 90th Andrey Ragulya proposed the theoretical basis for Rate Controlled Sintering Process (RCSP), which previously had been experimentally considered by Prof. H. Palmour. Andrey Ragulya put forward a new ideology of so-called rate-controlled thermally activated processes, which has been confirmed experimentally for numerous technological processes, in particular, synthesis of nanosized particles of ceramic and metallic materials. In 2015 he was awarded with the State Prize of Ukraine for these efforts. Since 2002 he has been in the position of Deputy Director of the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science and the Leader of the research team dealing with the development and characterization of nanosized particles, nanostructured ceramics & ceramic composites. He is an author of 6 books and 1 textbook in the area of nanomaterials, more than 270 papers and 16 patents.