COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2020
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Chong Cai,Ran Wang,Shufeng Liu,Xiaoya Yan,Lexin Zhang,Mingli Wang,Qi Tong,Tifeng Jiao
In recent years, new family of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide and carbonitrides-MXene has become critical materials due to their excellent structure and performance. Herein, we have investigated the synthesis of a new MXene-based composite material for efficient dye adsorption in sewage treatment, via a facile hydrothermal method . The characterization of the phytic acid (PA)-MXene composites showed that new rod-like Ti(OH)PO 4 components appeared in the hydrothermal process. In addition, compared with the original MXene , the prepared PA-MXene composite exhibited enhanced adsorption properties for the model dyes MB and RhB, and the adsorption capacity of the PA-MXene composite on MB remained at about 85 % after 12 cycles, indicating important potential as an adsorbent material in wastewater treatment .
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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Hao Xu,Dong Zhu,Wen Zhu,Fengzhan Sun,Jianxin Zou,Richard M. Laine,Wenjiang Ding
Rechargeable magnesium sulfur batteries (MSBs) assembled with earth-abundant and safe Mg anodes less prone to form dendrites on surface and sulfur-containing cathodes offer considerable potential for high energy densities. Nevertheless, suitable sulfur host materials and electrolytes are at present key factors that retard commercial introduction. Here, we explore preparation of Ti 3 C 2 @CoO composites as sulfur hosts with high concentration electrolytes consisting of Mg(TFSI) 2 and AlCl 3 in diglyme as new types of MSBs. Density functional theory (DFT) simulations indicate that CoO adsorbs magnesium polysulfides more strongly than Ti 3 C 2 while Ti 3 C 2 is more conductive to Mg 2+ diffusion and transfer than CoO. Coincidentally, use of 1 M electrolyte restrains dissolution of magnesium polysulfides in electrolytes during battery cycling. The experiments indicate that combining Ti 3 C 2 @CoO sulfur hosts and 1 M Mg(TFSI) 2 /AlCl 3 /diglyme electrolyte provides viable MSBs, maintaining discharge capacities of 540 mAh g −1 after 70 cycles at 100 mA g −1 . Mechanistic studies indicate that these MSBs work via a S/MgS x ( x = 2–8) redox process although oxidation of polysulfide to sulfur is not efficient in initial cycling. The systems studied here may offer valuable insights and inspiration in the design of appropriate electrolytes and sulfur-host materials for MSBs.
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BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY
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2021
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Mengmeng Zhang,Lisha Mei,Li Zhang,Xiao Wang,Xiaochen Liao,Xiuwen Qiao,Chenglin Hong
Electrochemical immunoassays are commonly used to detect biomarkers and Ti 3 C 2 MXene anchored CuAu-LDH two-dimensional hydroxide heterojunctions for dual-mode electrochemical immunosensors were fabricated in this work. Layered double hydroxides have a large surface area, high chemical stability, tunable metal composition and interchangeable anions, however, the insulating nature of LDH further limits its catalytic performance. For this reason, Ti 3 C 2 Mxenes were introduced to improve this problem. 2D layers of Ti 3 C 2 Mxenes with large specific surface area and excellent conductivity have been well proven and widely used. And the surface of Ti 3 C 2 Mxenes (due to the presence of abundant surface functional groups), will facilitate the anchoring of metal ions and the nucleation of LDH. In addition, its excellent electrical conductivity will facilitate the electron transfer between Cu 2+ and Cu + . The immunosensor not only showed a heavy square wave voltammetry (SWV) signal. It also exhibited high electrocatalytic activity for H 2 O 2 redox reactions and improves the sensitivity of the Ampere Current (i-t) detection. The CEA immunosensor developed in this study showed a wide linear response (0.0001–80 ng/mL) and the lowest detection limits (SWV: 33.6 fg/mL and i-t: 45.4 fg/mL S/N = 3). The results confirmed the excellent analytical capability of the immunosensor.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2021
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Shiyan Sun,Xuefeng Sha,Jie Liang,Guang Yang,Xin Hu,Ziyang He,Meiying Liu,Naigen Zhou,Xiaoyong Zhang,Yen Wei
The adsorption applications of MXene-based adsorbents have intensively investigated recently. However, the performance of MXene-based adsorbents has been largely limited owing to their lack of functional groups and adsorptive sites. Therefore, surface functionalization of MXene is an important route to achieve better performance for environmental adsorption. Herein, polyionic liquid functionalized MXene (named as MXene-PIL) was prepared through a multi-component reaction and adsorptive removal of iodine by MXene-PIL was also evaluated. The successful generation of PIL on MXene was confirmed by a series of characterization measurements. Furthermore, the effects of contact time, iodine concentration, environmental temperature and other factors on the adsorption performance of MXene-PIL were investigated. Adsorption kinetic analysis including pseudo-first-order dynamic model, pseudo-second-order dynamic model and Weber-Morris model, adsorption thermodynamic analysis such as Langmuir and Freundlich models and Van’t Hoff equation were used for further analysis the adsorption behavior of iodine by MXene-PIL. We demonstrated that the adsorption capacity could be as high as about 170 mg/g, which is obviously larger than the unmodified MXene and most of other reported adsorbents. Taken together, a simple strategy has been developed for in-situ generation of PIL on MXene and the resultant composites show potential application for adsorptive removal of iodine.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2021
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Houbao Liu,Zeya Huang,Tian Chen,Xinqing Su,Yunan Liu,Renli Fu
The novel multifunctional materials with anti-electromagnetic interference (EMI) and effective thermal management are ideal for modern electronic industry. Generally, the EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) and thermal conductivity (TC) of materials can be effectively enhanced by compounding with high electrically and thermally conductive fillers. However, it seems that the high-performance cannot be compensated without sacrificing the high fillers loading. Herein, from one-dimensional silver nanowires (AgNWs) and two-dimensional MXene, three-dimensional MXene/AgNWs aerogels were designed as electric and heat transferring skeletons for epoxy nanocomposites by directional-freezing and freeze-drying methods. The resultant MXene/AgNWs/Epoxy nanocomposites with a low MXene/AgNWs content of 8.2 wt% combine a high electrical conductivity of 1532 S/m, and an exceptional EMI SE value of 94.1 dB with 3 mm thickness at the X-band frequency, as well as an improved TC of 2.34 W/m·K. The fabricated MXene/AgNWs/Epoxy nanocomposites possess excellent comprehensive properties enable valuable applications in electronic devices for EMI shielding and thermal management.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2019
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Weiyi Chen,Bin Han,Yili Xie,Shujie Liang,Hong Deng,Zhang Lin
Converting carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to multiple energy-rich chemicals by photocatalysis could validly mitigate the severe issues of climate changes and energy shortages. Exploring efficient catalysts for enhancing the performance of CO 2 photoreduction is still challenging. Herein, a novel three-dimensional hierarchical Co-Co layered double hydroxide/Ti 3 C 2 T X nanosheets (Co-Co LDH/TNS) nanoarray was successfully prepared via an in-situ MOF-derived strategy. This wise design rationally integrates the functional and structural merits of active Co species with conductive MXene to a hierarchical nanoarray architecture composed of ultrathin nanosheets, which can remarkably promote separation of photogenerated charge carriers and accelerate electrons transmission. Benefitting from these features, the hierarchical Co-Co LDH/TNS composites manifest significant enhancement on the CO 2 -to-CO evolving rate (1.25 × 10 4 µmol h −1 g −1 ) under illumination (>400 nm) with a high apparent quantum efficiency (0.92%) and excellent stability. Our work demonstrates that 3D hybrid structure composed of MXene species can serve as promising candidates for CO 2 photoreduction, providing fundamental guidance to improve photocatalytic performance by rational engineering of complex hierarchical architecture materials.
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Nano Research
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2019
·Vol. 13
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Zhao Xing,Zha Xiang-Jun,Tang Li-Sheng,Pu Jun-Hong,Ke Kai,Bao Rui-Ying,Liu Zheng-ying,Yang Ming-Bo,Yang Wei
As a renewable and environment-friendly technology for seawater desalination and wastewater purification, solar energy triggered steam generation is attractive to address the long-standing global water scarcity issues. However, practical utilization of solar energy for steam generation is severely restricted by the complex synthesis, low energy conversion efficiency, insufficient solar spectrum absorption and water extraction capability of state-of-the-art technologies. Here, for the first time, we report a facile strategy to realize hydrogen bond induced self-assembly of a polydopamine (PDA)@MXene microsphere photothermal layer for synergistically achieving wide-spectrum and highly efficient solar absorption capability (≈ 96% in a wide solar spectrum range of 250–1,500 nm wavelength). Moreover, such a system renders fast water transport and vapor escaping due to the intrinsically hydrophilic nature of both MXene and PDA, as well as the interspacing between core-shell microspheres. The solar-to-vapor conversion efficiencies under the solar illumination of 1 sun and 4 sun are as high as 85.2% and 93.6%, respectively. Besides, the PDA@MXene photothermal layer renders the system durable mechanical properties, allowing producing clean water from seawater with the salt rejection rate beyond 99%. Furthermore, stable light absorption performance can be achieved and well maintained due to the formation of ternary TiO2/C/MXene complex caused by oxidative degradation of MXene. Therefore, this work proposes an attractive MXene-assisted strategy for fabricating high performance photothermal composites for advanced solar-driven seawater desalination applications.
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Nano Energy
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2019
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Ding-chuan Zuo,Sheng-chao Song,Chang-sheng An,Lin-bo Tang,Zhen-jiang He,Jun-chao Zheng
This study presents a nanostructured Sn/SnO x @Ti 3 C 2 composite by in-situ growth of Sn/SnO x nanoparticles on the interlayer of 2D MXene (Ti 3 C 2 T x ) nanosheets through facile electrostatic attraction and liquid phase reduction. X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy results illustrate that Sn/SnO x nanoparticles are uniformly distributed into the MXene (Ti 3 C 2 T x ) interlayer, forming a sandwich-like nanostructured composite. MXene (Ti 3 C 2 T x ) nanosheets suppress Sn/SnO x nanoparticles’ volume expansion and agglomeration and accelerate the Li-ion and electron transition due to the distinguished confinement effect and excellent graphite-like layered structure. Furthermore, Sn/SnO x nanoparticles are embedded as pillars to enhance the longitudinal structural stability of MXene matrix by preventing the re-stacking of nanosheets during lithium insertion/extraction. The nanosized particles still reduce lithium migration path and increase active areas. Therefore, the Sn/SnO x @Ti 3 C 2 composite maintains 594.2 mAh g −1 after 200 cycles with a capacity recovery after 100 cycles. The synergistic effect of Sn/SnO x on MXene facilitates Sn/SnO x @Ti 3 C 2 nanostructures , thereby exhibiting excellent electrochemical properties for lithium-ion batteries.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2019
·Vol. 7
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·9716-9725
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IF 10.733
Yuan Tian,Yongling An,Shenglin Xiong,Jinkui Feng,Yitai Qian
Metal-based anode materials such as Sb, Sn, Bi, etc., attract great attention for battery use due to their high electronic conductivity and high energy density. However, the large volume expansion during the alloying–dealloying process results in fast performance decay. In this work, we successfully grow hierarchical Sb, Sn and Bi firmly on MXene paper via a facile one-step electrodeposition process in a green ethylene glycol-based system. As robust, flexible, free-standing and binder-free anodes for potassium-ion batteries, the hierarchical structure provides a short diffusion distance for potassium ions and buffer volume change during the potassiation/depotassiation process. Highly conductive and flexible MXene paper serves as an elastic current collector providing an electronic highway to facilitate electron transport and accommodate volume change during the cycling process. MXene@Sb delivers a high reversible capacity of 516.8 mA h g−1, a high rate capacity of 270 mA h g−1 at 500 mA g−1, and stable capacity retention with a capacity fading rate of only 0.042% per cycle. This work may also be interesting in relation to research on other rechargeable batteries, catalysts, sensors, etc.
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ACS Nano
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2020
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Chuang Sun,Xinlei Shi,Yabo Zhang,Jiajie Liang,Jie Qu,Chao Lai
Lithium-iodine (Li-I2) batteries are promising candidates for next-generation electrochemical energy storage systems due to their high energy density and the excellent kinetic rates of I2 cathodes. However, dissolution of iodine and iodide has hindered their widespread adoption for practical applications. Herein, a Ti3C2Tx MXene foam with a three-dimensional hierarchical porous architecture is proposed as a cathode-electrolyte interface layer in Li-I2 batteries, enabling high-rate and ultrastable cycling performance at a high iodine content and loading mass. Theoretical calculations and empirical characterizations indicate that Ti3C2Tx MXene sheets with high metallic conductivity not only provide strong chemical binding with iodine species to suppress the shuttle effect but also facilitate fast redox reactions during cell cycling. As a result, the Li-I2 battery using a cathode with 70 wt % I2 cycled stably for over 1000 cycles at a rate of 2 C, even at an ultrahigh loading mass of 5.2 mg cm–2. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the highest reported loading at such a high iodine content. This work suggests that using a Ti3C2Tx MXene interface layer can enable the design and application of high-energy Li-I2 batteries.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2019
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IF 3.45
Jiyou Shen,Jun Shen,Wenjing Zhang,Xiaohui Yu,Hua Tang,Mingyi Zhang,Zulfiqar,Qinqin Liu
Ti 3 C 2 -MXene, which exhibits excellent electronic conductivity and optical properties , has been identified as a promising noble-metal-free co-catalyst for the development of efficient photocatalysts for environmental remediation. Herein, CeO 2 /Ti 3 C 2 -MXene hybrids were prepared by the in-situ growth of cube-like CeO 2 using ultrathin Ti 3 C 2 -MXene nanosheets as a two-dimensional platform via a simple hydrothermal route. Upon exposure to solar light, the CeO 2 /Ti 3 C 2 -MXene hybrid with the optimal ratio of Ti 3 C 2 -MXene exhibited enhanced performance in photocatalytic tetracycline degradation and CO 2 reduction, with activities 6.3 and 1.5 times greater than those of pristine CeO 2 , respectively. The improved activity of CeO 2 /Ti 3 C 2 -MXene was attributed to the Schottky junction induced by the built-in electric field between CeO 2 and Ti 3 C 2 -MXene, which drives the photogenerated electrons from CeO 2 to Ti 3 C 2 -MXene and expedites the segregation of the electrons and holes. This work may shed light on the careful design of novel Schottky junctions utilizing noble-metal free Ti 3 C 2 -MXene as co-catalysts for building efficient photocatalytic systems enacted in pollutant degradation and energy conversion.
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RSC Advances
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2018
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·20576-20584
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Ningxian Hao,Yang Wei,Jialiang Wang,Zhiwei Wang,Zhaohua Zhu,Shulin Zhao,Min Han,Xiao Huang
Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical (PEC) oxygen evolution reactions (OER) are receiving considerable attention owing to their important roles in the overall water splitting reaction. In this contribution, ternary NiFeCo-layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoplates were in situ hybridized with Ti3C2Tx (the MXene phase) via a simple solvothermal process during which Ti3C2Tx was partially oxidized to form anatase TiO2 nanoparticles. The obtained Ti3C2Tx/TiO2/NiFeCo-LDH composite (denoted as TTL) showed a superb OER performance as compared with pristine NiFeCo-LDH and comercial IrO2 catalyst, achieving a current density of 10 mA cm−2 at a potential of 1.55 V versus a reversible hydrogen electrode (vs. RHE) in 0.1 M KOH. Importantly, the composite was further deposited on a standard BiVO4 film to construct a TTL/BiVO4 photoanode which showed a significantly enhanced photocurrent density of 2.25 mA cm−2 at 1.23 V vs. RHE under 100 mW cm−2 illumination. The excellent PEC-OER performance can be attributed to the presence of TiO2 nanoparticles which broadened the light adsorption to improve the generation of electron/hole pairs, while the ternary LDH nanoplates were efficient hole scavengers and the metallic Ti3C2Tx nanosheets were effective shuttles for transporting electrons/ions. Our in situ synthetic method provides a facile way to prepare multi-component catalysts for effective water oxidation and solar energy conversion.
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