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Mesoporous MXene powders synthesized by acid induced crumpling and their use as Na-ion battery anodes
Materials research letters, v 6(4), pp 230-235
03 Apr 2018
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Abstract
Manipulating the shapes of, otherwise flat, two-dimensional, 2D, flakes is important in many applications. Herein by simply decreasing the pH of a Ti
3
C
2
T
x
MXene colloidal suspension, the 2D nanolayers crash out into crumpled flakes, resulting in randomly oriented powders, with a mesoporous architecture. Electrodes made with the latter showed capacities of 250 mAh g
−1
at 20 mA g
−1
in sodium-ion batteries. The rate performance, 120 mAh g
−1
at 500 mA g
−1
, was also respectable. This acid-induced, reversible, crumpling approach is facile and scalable and could prove important in electrochemical, biological, catalytic, and environmental MXene-based applications.
By simply decreasing the pH of a Ti
3
C
2
T
x
colloidal suspension, we induce the 2D flakes flocculate into mesoporous crumpled flakes, that we then show can be used as Na-ion battery anodes.
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- Title
- Mesoporous MXene powders synthesized by acid induced crumpling and their use as Na-ion battery anodes
- Creators
- Varun Natu - Drexel UniversityMallory Clites - Drexel UniversityEkaterina Pomerantseva - Drexel UniversityMichel W. Barsoum - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Materials research letters, v 6(4), pp 230-235
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Grant note
- 1609272 / Division of Materials Research (10.13039/100000078) National Science Foundation (10.13039/501100008982) 621-2012-4430 / Swedish Research Council (10.13039/501100004359)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000432339300002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85042476812
- Other Identifier
- 991019169631204721
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