CARBON
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2024
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Yawen Zhang,Chengyi Si,Zhongpan Zhang,Le Li,Xiaoqiang Fan,Minhao Zhu
Self-lubricating coating has sparked significant research interest due to its remarkable tribology performance. However, traditional microcapsules-based self-lubricating coating still faces challenges in long-term serviceability and poor anti-corrosion performance. In this paper, a novel self-lubricating epoxy resin coating was proposed based on hierarchical design and energy wear theory. Microcapsules (MC) containing Polyalphaolefin (PAO40) were prepared via the solvent evaporation approach. Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene (T) with high thermal conductivity was then incorporated into the MC-enhanced epoxy resin coating (EP) to construct the novel self-lubricating EP coating (T-MC-EP). Compared to the EP coating, the thermal conductivity of the T-MC-EP coating increased by 79.4%. Finite element analysis indicated that T constructed thermally conductive network in the coating, serving as the main heat carrier. Furthermore, the wear rate decreased by 91.2%, primarily attributed to the formation of lubricating oil film during friction and the reduction of epoxy resin molecular oxidation fracture caused by friction heat. After 31 days of salt spray testing, the T-MC-EP coating also exhibited superior anti-corrosion performance. This work provides an innovative insight into designing multifunctional coating , including excellent mechanical, thermal, tribological, and anti-corrosive performance.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2019
·Vol. 7
·期 37
·11549-11558
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IF 6.641
Chunli Hou,Huangzhong Yu,Chengwen Huang
MXenes, a newly interesting family of two-dimensional (2D) materials, have recently attracted wide attention owing to their unique photoelectric properties. In this study, 2D Ti3C2Tx, a classic representative of the MXene family, is fabricated and functioned as a hole transport layer (HTL) in polymer solar cells (PSCs) due to its features of outstanding metallic conductivity, excellent optical transparency, suitable work function, and superior mechanical properties. The Ti3C2Tx nanosheets deposited from neutral solutions are incorporated between the photoactive layer and the anode electrode as HTLs to facilitate charge transport and collection characteristics in PSCs. The results show that the Ti3C2Tx film possesses good light transmission and high conductivity. The photovoltaic characteristics of the Ti3C2Tx-based devices are systematically investigated. It is demonstrated that the incorporation of Ti3C2Tx as a HTL endows PSCs with superior charge extraction capability, exhibiting a significantly higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.53% than that of the only ITO-based device (4.21%) with PBDB-T as the donor and ITIC as the acceptor. Such photovoltaic performance also outperforms that of the state-of-the-art PEDOT:PSS-based devices (10.11%). Furthermore, the Ti3C2Tx-based device also shows better long-term stability under atmospheric conditions without any encapsulation than the PEDOT:PSS devices, which indicates that the 2D Ti3C2Tx material possesses great potential in PSCs.
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光伏技术
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Nanomaterials
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2024
·Vol. 14
·期 22
·1835
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IF 4.4
Chong Li,Ran Tao,Jinqiao Hou,Huanming Wang,Chen Fu,Jingting Luo
Ammonia (NH 3 ) gas is prevalent in industrial production as a health hazardous gas. Consequently, it is essential to develop a straightforward, reliable, and stable NH 3 sensor capable of operating at room temperature. This paper presents an innovative approach to modifying SnO 2 colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) on the surface of Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene to form a heterojunction, which introduces a significant number of adsorption sites and enhances the response of the sensor. Zero-dimensional (0D) SnO 2 quantum dots and two-dimensional (2D) Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene were prepared by solvothermal and in situ etching methods, respectively. The impact of the mass ratio between two materials on the performance was assessed. The sensor based on 12 wt% Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene/SnO 2 composites demonstrates excellent performance in terms of sensitivity and response/recovery speed. Upon exposure to 50 ppm NH 3 , the frequency shift in the sensor is −1140 Hz, which is 5.6 times larger than that of pure Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene and 2.8 times higher than that of SnO 2 CQDs. The response/recovery time of the sensor for 10 ppm NH 3 was 36/54 s, respectively. The sensor exhibited a theoretical detection limit of 73 ppb and good repeatability. Furthermore, a stable sensing performance can be maintained after 30 days. The enhanced sensor performance can be attributed to the abundant active sites provided by the accumulation/depletion layer in the Ti 3 C 2 T x /SnO 2 heterojunction, which facilitates the adsorption of oxygen molecules. This work promotes the gas sensing application of MXenes and provides a way to improve gas sensing performance.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2023
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Zhe Liu,Xichao Mo,Shuhao Tian,Jie Chen,Yanpeng Liu,Haiyang Wu,Yawei Zhao,Yanrong Wang,Shanglong Peng
As one of the two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials , MXene exhibits great potential on gas-sensing owing to its high specific area, rich functional groups and great charge transfer mobility. Herein, electrostatic adsorption and calcination strategies were taken for ZIF-derived Co 3 O 4 and alkalized Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene to fabricate Co 3 O 4 /MX7.5 heterojunction . It can be found that Co 3 O 4 nanoparticles (NPs) uniformly grow on the surface of alkalized Ti 3 C 2 T x . Alkalized Ti 3 C 2 T x with lower work function (lower than 3.9 eV) can transfer more electrons towards Co 3 O 4 and promote the redox of Co 2+ . These increased Co 2+ ions can help to adsorb more adsorbed oxygen and produce more oxygen defects, which enhances contact interaction between ethanol molecules and adsorption sites. The formation of heterojunction between Co 3 O 4 and MXene is observed by UV–vis spectra, and this interface effect enhances the ability of gas sensors. Therefore, the sensors based on the obtained Co 3 O 4 /MX7.5 heterojunction can operate at a relatively low temperature (140 °C) with a response of 3500 % and a low detection limit of 1 ppm. And it also delivers long-term stability (about 30 days). This work demonstrates practical application for detecting ethanol at a relatively low working temperature and keeping their response in a long term.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2024
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Xiaoyu Mao,Changhua Li,Xiaofeng Zhang,Hao Chen,Chao Zhang,Rui Gou,Yi He
In this study, we developed a composite material comprising UIO-66-NH 2 encapsulated tannic acid (TA) loaded on Ti 3 C 2 Tx to improve the corrosion resistance of water borne epoxy (WEP) coatings. The successful synthesis of the material was determined by FT-IR, XRD, XPS, EDS, TGA, SEM and TEM characterization. Furthermore, ultraviolet (UV)tests were conducted to evaluate the release rate of TA at varying pH levels, revealing a release rate of approximately 95 % at pH 2. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) results over 60 d indicated that the R c value of TU-T/WEP remained unchanged at 3.934 × 10 8 , demonstrating a two-order magnitude increase compared to those of pure epoxy coatings, attributed to the synergistic active and passive protection of TU-T materials. The self-healing ability of the TU-T/WEP coating was validated through manual scratch experiments. Additionally, the EIS test showed that the R c value of TU-T/WEP coating increased to 3.5 × 10 5 after 72 h, representing a two-order magnitude increase over that of the WEP coating alone. This study introduces a novel approach using green tannic acid as a corrosion inhibitor and amino-functionalized Ti 3 C 2 Tx with UIO-66-NH 2 to enhance corrosion resistance and self-healing aproperties of coatings.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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Qiyue Jia,Hongyu Gao,Wenling Du,Jiaxin Bai,Mei Li,Jiansheng Liu,Zhanli Chai
Expediting the separation and transfer of photogenerated carriers is crucial for plasmonic materials to improve the performance of photocatalysts. However, it remains a significant challenge to strengthen the local surface plasma resonance (LSPR) through the modulation of surface functional groups. Herein, Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene is combined with two typical semiconductor materials to form Ti 3 C 2 T x /CdS (TCS) with dominated surface O x groups and Ti 3 C 2 T x /C 3 N 4 (TCN) with surface-terminated F x species. The obtained TCS composite shows a higher photocatalytic performance (96.7 %) than TCN (86.7 %) and the corresponding bare catalysts in the degradation of tetracycline within 60 min under visible-light irradiation. Moreover, the degradation rate of Ti 3 C 2 T x /CdS composite decreases by only 2.3 % after 4 cycles photocatalytic process, which is more stable than Ti 3 C 2 T x /C 3 N 4 (3.3 %) and CdS (39.3 %). The improved photocatalytic activity and stability mainly result from the enhanced LSPR effect of Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene. In particular, the better performance of TCS compared to TCN indicates that the LSPR effect is highly related to the surface-terminated [O]/[F] ratio. These results directly provide a strategy to enhance the electric field dynamics of MXene materials for improving photocatalytic performance.
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Advanced Materials Technologies
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2020
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·期 8
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IF 5.969
Xingxing Li,Yanan Ma,Peizhi Shen,Chuankun Zhang,Minglei Cao,Shaojun Xiao,Jinfeng Yan,Shijun Luo,Yihua Gao
Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene, as a new 2D material, with unique physical and chemical properties, is ideal for building high performance miniaturized electrochemical energy storage devices. However, the operating voltage window of Ti 3 C 2 T x based microsupercapacitor (MSC) in symmetric structure is very narrow (≤0.6 V), which affects its practical application. Herein, a flexible asymmetric microsupercapacitor (AMSC) based on Ti 3 C 2 T x //polypyrrole (PPy)/MnO 2 is reported, where Ti 3 C 2 T x is deposited on graphite paper (GP) by electrophoresis method as negative electrodes, MnO 2 and PPy are electrochemically deposited on GP successively as positive electrodes, and polyvinyl alcohol/sulfuric acid (PVA/H 2 SO 4 ) as the quasi-solid electrolyte. This AMSC based on Ti 3 C 2 T x //PPy/MnO 2 operates at 1.2 V voltage window, which is two times wider than symmetric Ti 3 C 2 T x based MSC. And its maximum areal capacitance and areal energy density can reach up to 61.5 mF cm −2 and 6.73 µWh cm −2 respectively. Moreover, three above AMSCs in series connection can turn on three lights after being charged. And the AMSC also shows high flexibility under mechanical bending level (bending angle with 0°–180°). The flexible AMSC based on Ti 3 C 2 T x //PPy/MnO 2 with ultrahigh energy density is a promising candidate for exploiting and fabricating next-generation miniature integrated energy storage devices.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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Hang Xu,Mingjing Ge,Yin Liu,Chen Yao,Houzhen Zhou,Mingmei Ding,Yang Li
Singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) is an electrophilic oxidant capable of selectively eliminating contaminants in complex wastewater, which is highly expected in environmental remediation. However, due to the limitations in synthesizing catalysts with well-defined adsorption and active sites, the efficient and selective generation of 1 O 2 remains challenging. Herein, isolated Ru-O 3 moiety decorated two-dimensional Ti 3 C 2 T x catalysts (Ru-SA/Ti 3 C 2 T x ) were prepared to regulate 1 O 2 generation via peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation. The constructed catalysts with asymmetric dual-metal structures (Ti-O-Ru) exhibited surprising mass activity of 1.4 × 10 4 min −1 ·mol −1 with a high 1 O 2 generation selectivity of 98.3 %. Mechanism inquiry indicated that the enhanced adsorption and electron transfer between PMS and Ru-SA/Ti 3 C 2 T x attributed to the synergistic effect of the strong adsorption at the Ru sites and the rapid electron transfer in the asymmetric Ti-O-Ru structures. Theoretical calculations demonstrated that Ru-O 3 moiety decreased the formation energy barrier of key intermediate *O, thus converting to a 1 O 2 -dominated oxidation path. Two possible degradation pathways of tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) were proposed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS), and the toxicities of intermediates were significantly decreased due to the strong electrophilic attack of 1 O 2 . This study deepened the understanding of the specific contribution of individual sites in multi-site synergistic, which furnished implications for the design and optimization of Fenton-like catalysts.
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Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
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2023
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Chunhu Tan,Tingting Zhang,Gongying Wang,Libin Zhang,Chang Liu,Weihua Li,Jiansheng Li,Rui Lu
Currently, despite the wide application of Ti 3 C 2 T x in various fields, little information is available regarding its toxicity to humans, thus, it is necessary to study its interactions with human proteins as well as its biotoxicity. In the study, spectroscopic analysis and molecular simulation were used to investigated the interaction mechanism between human serum albumin (HSA) and Ti 3 C 2 T x with different oxidation degrees. The three prepared Ti 3 C 2 T x materials with different oxidation degrees were analyzed by X-ray diffractometer, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope, and the results demonstrated that TiO 2 nanoparticles were formed during the oxidation process. In conclusion, the results of the ultra violet spectrum, fluorescence spectra and zeta potential measurements showed that fully oxidized Ti 3 C 2 T x (F-Ti 3 C 2 T x ) had a greater binding ability to HSA than unoxidized Ti 3 C 2 T x (U-Ti 3 C 2 T x ), followed by partially oxidized Ti 3 C 2 T x (P-Ti 3 C 2 T x ). Based on synchronous fluorescence, circular dichroism and infrared characterization, it has been determined that with a gradual increase of Ti 3 C 2 T x oxidation degree, its effect on the conformation of HSA increases, followed by F-Ti 3 C 2 T x > P - Ti 3 C 2 T x > U - Ti 3 C 2 T x . Further analysis of the fluorescence binding ability revealed that hydrogen bonds played a major role in the interaction between HSA and Ti 3 C 2 T x .
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2025
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Xiaoyang Zhu,Yang Zhang,Yu Zhang,Panpan Xie,Yunchuan Liu,Wenhui Zhang,Shenao Zhang,Yusen Wang,Guan Wu,Wangyang Lu,Nan Li
Customizing smart clothing for monitoring the physiological and vital sign information in real time has raised demands for wearable sensors with rapid response, good stability, high sensitivity and excellent mechanical properties. Herein, a flexible high-entropy doped oxide Cu 0.9 Fe 0.06 Ni 0.01 Cr 0.01 Co 0.01 Mn 0.01 (HE-Cu 2 O) nanoparticle modified Ti 3 C 2 T x (HECT) fiber was prepared through a facile hydrothermal growth and heat treatment process. Due to rich active sites, high reactivity and large surface area, HE-Cu 2 O appears impressive detection ability, admired adsorption inclination and exceptional reaction kinetics, confirming by DFT calculation. What’s more, the covalent coupling between the Ti 3 C 2 T x conductive frameworks and HE-Cu 2 O nanoparticles can further avoid the negative influence of metal oxide on the electronic conductivity, ensuring fast electron transfer rate. As a result, the HECT fiber can be operated in DA/PBS solution with reliable electrocatalyst properties, including low detection limit (1 μM), rapid response rate (<2 s), remarkable long-term cycling performance (100 cycling) and excellent reproducibility (RSD ≈ 2.01 %). Additionally, when the HECT fiber, matching with the Ag/AgCl electrode and Pt wire, weaves into the garment, the integrated system retains obvious response level, less response time (<5 s) and outstanding electrocatalyst performance under dynamic situations (bending, running, rope skipping and doing yoga), demonstrating a potential in practical application.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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Muhammad Muneeb Ahmad,Yunyun Ma,Vadivel Saravanan,Hira Shahid,Lulu Huang,Munzar Badshah,Qiaosheng Pu
Solar-driven interfacial water evaporation has emerged as a promising strategy to address freshwater scarcity. Several solar evaporators have been explored for photothermal water evaporation but their use is limited due to high cost and low evaporation rates. In this study, a super hydrophilic and highly porous Ti 3 C 2 T x /alginate aerogel solar evaporator is fabricated using a novel and straightforward freeze–thaw and solvent exchange approach. Compared to conventional approaches, such as directional freezing and freeze-drying, the proposed method yields a highly porous structure that enhances photothermal performance while simplifying the fabrication process. MXene in Ti 3 C 2 T x /alginate aerogel improves light absorption while its super hydrophilic surface and porous structure facilitate continuous water transport, significantly boosting the water evaporation rate. The optimal aerogel evaporator (M 40 AA) demonstrated a high-water evaporation rate of 2.09 kg m -2 h −1 under one sun irradiation and an evaporation efficiency of 86.09 %. The 14.63, 14.51, and 13.51 kg m −2 of purified water were collected in 7 h through a simple device in the purification of river water, dyes wastewater, and simulated seawater, respectively. Ti 3 C 2 T x could be recycled, from the aerogel evaporator with only a 7.6 % decline of the evaporation rate up to 5 days of continuous use.
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2025
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Yanqiao Ding,Yinpei Luo,Chun Huang,Shifu Gu,Bingsheng Du,Yingchun Dong,Yijie Shi,Hangyu Liu,Mati Horprathum,Wei Hu,Yong He
Achieving highly sensitive detection of ppb-level NO2 at room temperature remains a significant challenge for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS) due to their low chemical activity. Herein, a synergistic sensitization strategy is proposed, combining highly conductive MXene with high specific surface area mixed MOS. In this work, NiO–SnO2 is synthesized by thermal annealing using Ni–Sn–BTC (BTC: benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic) as a template. The mesoporous structure and high conductivity of NiO–SnO2/Ti3C2Tx provide a variety of channels for gas diffusion and carrier transfer. Gas sensor tests reveal that the fabricated NiO–SnO2/Ti3C2Tx sensor exhibits a 4.33-fold improvement in response (Rg/Ra = 70.86 to 200 ppb) to 200 ppb of NO2 at room temperature (RT, 25 °C) compared to NiO–SnO2. In addition, the sensor also maintains a low detection limit (50 ppb), superior selectivity (response ratio >30), good repeatability (RSD: 2.3%), and long-term stability at RT and 60% RH (RH: relative humidity). The outstanding sensing properties are mainly attributed to the functionalized surfaces and multiple-type heterojunctions formed by NiO, SnO2, and Ti3C2Tx phases, which significantly improve gas adsorption and electrical transduction function of the sensor.
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