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Low temperature solution synthesis of reduced two dimensional Ti 3 C 2 MXenes with paramagnetic behaviour
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Low temperature solution synthesis of reduced two dimensional Ti 3 C 2 MXenes with paramagnetic behaviour

Yeoheung Yoon, Thi Anh Le, Anand P Tiwari, Ikjoon Kim, Michel W Barsoum and Hyoyoung Lee
Nanoscale, v 10(47), pp 22429-22438
21 Dec 2018
PMID: 30475358

Abstract

MXenes - two dimensional, 2D, early transition metal, M, carbides and nitrides, X - are the latest addition to the 2D materials' world. Herein, we report on a facile low temperature solution chemical synthesis method to reduce Ti C T multilayered, ML, MXenes. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, magnetization measurements and other techniques, we concluded that immersing Ti C T MLs in the reducing agent Li-ethylenediamine (Li-EDA) - held at temperatures varying from room to 120 °C - reduces the 2D layers creating Ti ions and oxygen vacancies. Above a temperature (T) of ≈10 K, the magnetic susceptibilities, χ, are temperature independent, implying that the resulting powders are Pauli paramagnetic. The loss of the magnetic signal upon intercalation of Li or EDA, together with a Curie-like increase in χ at T < 10 K, is consistent with that of a disordered metal that is close to a metallic to insulator transition and proves that the magnetism is associated with the 2D flakes. This result is the first evidence of any magnetism of any MXene.

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