Chathushka Hettige is a current PhD student in Inorganic Nanomaterials laboratory of Queensland University of Technology supervised under Distinguished Prof. Dmitri Golberg. Her Research study focuses on improving the stability of the novel 2D material called MXene. She is specialized in using different mechanical activation methods and CVD techniques in MAX phase synthesis; the parental precursor of the MXene. The thermal stability and chemical stability of MXenes are investigated by both bulk characterization techniques such as thermogravimetric analysis and UV-Vis spectroscopy as well as in situ TEM experiments.