During August, Andreas Rosenkranz, director of the Millennium Nucleus for Advanced MXenes for Sustainable Applications (AMXSA), took part in prominent academic events that strengthened the center’s presence in high-impact international settings.
The main highlight was his participation in the 33rd International Materials Research Congress (IMRC 2025), held in Cancún, Mexico, and organized by the Mexican Materials Society and the Materials Research Society (MRS). This congress, the most important in Latin America in the field of materials science, brought together over 2,000 participants from 45 countries. Within this framework, Rosenkranz played a leading role as organizer of Symposium D2, “2D Materials for Extreme Environments,” and delivered an invited lecture, contributing to the global discussion on the advances and challenges of two-dimensional materials.
Complementing this participation, at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany), he delivered the presentation “2D MXenes – Potential in Machine Components” during the seminar “Application of 2D Materials in Machine Components,” an event that brought together specialists in nanomaterials, tribology, and functional surfaces.
Finally, on August 26 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he was a speaker at the seminar “New Materials for Tribo-electric Nanogenerators” with the presentation “2D Materials and MXenes.” The event addressed recent advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs) and introduced the binational project “Wear-resistant thin film-based triboelectric nanogenerators for self-powered sensing,” co-funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) of Chile and the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Participation in these instances reinforces the commitment of the AMXSA Millennium Nucleus to international collaboration and its leadership in the research of 2D materials and their applications in energy and tribology.
