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Tailoring Structure, Composition, and Energy Storage Properties of MXenes from Selective Etching of In-Plane, Chemically Ordered MAX Phases
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Tailoring Structure, Composition, and Energy Storage Properties of MXenes from Selective Etching of In-Plane, Chemically Ordered MAX Phases

Ingemar Persson, Ahmed El Ghazaly, Quanzheng Tao, Joseph Halim, Sankalp Kota, Vanya Darakchieva, Justinas Palisaitis, Michel W. Barsoum, Johanna Rosén and Per O A Persson
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), v 14(17), pp e1703676-n/a
2018
PMID: 29611285

Abstract

2D materials; capacitance; in-plane order; MXene; vacancies Chemical Sciences Kemi Materialkemi Materials Chemistry Natural Sciences Naturvetenskap
The exploration of 2D solids is one of our times generators of materials discoveries. A recent addition to the 2D world is MXenes that possses a rich chemistry due to the large parent family of MAX phases. Recently, a new type of atomic laminated phases (coined i-MAX) is reported, in which two different transition metal atoms are ordered in the basal planes. Herein, these i-MAX phases are used in a new route for tailoriong the MXene structure and composition. By employing different etching protocols to the parent i-MAX phase (Mo2/3Y1/3)(2)AlC, the resulting MXene can be either: i) (Mo2/3Y1/3)(2)C with in-plane elemental order through selective removal of Al atoms or ii) Mo1.33C with ordered vacancies through selective removal of both Al and Y atoms. When (Mo2/3Y1/3)(2)C (ideal stoichiometry) is used as an electrode in a supercapacitor-with KOH electrolytea volumetric capacitance exceeding 1500 F cm(-3) is obtained, which is 40% higher than that of its Mo1.33C counterpart. With H2SO4, the trend is reversed, with the latter exhibiting the higher capacitance (approximate to 1200 F cm(-3)). This additional ability for structural tailoring will indubitably prove to be a powerful tool in property-tailoring of 2D materials, as exemplified here for supercapacitors.

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