Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2023
·Vol. 11
·期 32
·10973-10984
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IF 6.4
Ming Du,Shilei Ji,Canhui Qian,Lutao Li,Wei Chen,Huajie Huang,Jianping Yang,Jian Zhang,Xinbao Zhu,Xing’ao Li
The accessibility of photogenerated charge transfer channels and the activity of catalytic reaction sites are critical for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, a 3D porous N-doped Ti3C2Tx MXene matrix confining Cd0.5Zn0.5S nanoparticles (N-TCT@CZS) was fabricated via electrostatic absorption, thermal nitridation, and in situ growth processes, forming a stable heterojunction with excellent photocatalytic HER activity. Comprehensive experimental and theoretical analyses indicated that N dopants could induce more unsaturated structures and increase the abundance of active sites, while the 3D N-TCT MXene matrix with a stable scaffold configuration and interconnected porous channels could promote charge transfer kinetics, which synergistically realizes electronic structure modulation and spatial configuration design of photocatalysts. Besides, the Cd–N bonds between the N-TCT MXene and CZS enhance the interfacial interaction and expedite the directional interfacial charge transfer, thus substantially boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Consequently, the optimal N-TCT@CZS-3 nanohybrid photocatalyst possesses a superior photocatalytic HER rate of 10.90 mmol g−1 h−1, which is 4.8 times higher than that of the pristine CZS nanoparticles. This work proposes an applicable avenue for designing and fabricating novel functional 3D MXene-supported semiconductor materials for solar energy conversion.
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JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Zhimin He,Zhengjie Tan,Yu Pu,Qiyu Li,Wei Hong,Rong Li,Xinglong Gou
Ti 3 C 2 T x nanosheets arrays sandwiched with FeNi 2 S 4 nanoparticles are in-situ grown on Ni-Fe foam (FeNi 2 S 4 -Ti 3 C 2 T x @NFF) via a facile one-pot hydrothermal route. The as-prepared FeNi 2 S 4 -Ti 3 C 2 T x @NFF exhibits simultaneously excellent catalytic activity towards oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions with low overpotentials (136 and 97 mV at 10 mA cm -2 , respectively) and superior stability. Moreover, a symmetrical electrolyzer utilizing FeNi 2 S 4 -Ti 3 C 2 T x @NFF as the anode and cathode only requires 1.51 V for overall water splitting to reach 10 mA cm -2 , and can continuously operate at 20 mA cm -2 for 100 h. The outstanding catalytic performance of the catalyst can be attributed to increased active sites in the well-dispersed FeNi 2 S 4 nanoparticles, enhanced electronic conductivity due to introduction of Ti 3 C 2 T x nanosheets, strong electronic coupling between Ti 3 C 2 T x and FeNi 2 S 4 , improved mass transfer through the hierarchically porous structures and robust self-supporting configuration.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2023
·Vol. 11
·期 38
·20651-20664
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IF 11.9
Fangfang Su,Zhongjie He,Jinliang Xie,Jing Zhang,Weirui Zhang,Yangyang Xin,Aibo Zhang,Dongdong Yao,Yaping Zheng
In recent years, solar energy has gained significant attention due to its clean, abundant, and renewable characteristics. Among various solar energy applications, solar thermal conversion has emerged as one of the most promising and straightforward methods. As a new type of photothermal material, MXene has been widely studied, but its low layer roughness and high reflection coefficient result in weak light–thermal conversion performance. In this work, we prepared nanofluids (hereafter named “Ti3C2Tx/FCuS-IL” and “Ti3C2Tx/HCuS-IL”) for light–thermal conversion by utilizing electrostatic interactions between polydopamine modified Ti3C2Tx and CuS composite photothermal materials (Ti3C2Tx/FCuS and Ti3C2Tx/HCuS) with [EBIM]NTf2. The introduction of floral and hollow CuS can effectively increase the surface roughness of Ti3C2Tx, thereby increasing the light receiving area of the material. Research has demonstrated that ionic liquids (ILs) can serve as effective heat collecting working fluids, expanding the liquid path range of nanofluids and providing them with enhanced thermal stability. Furthermore, ILs exhibit lower viscosity, which is advantageous for their efficient pumping in various industrial applications. Research on the light absorption performance and light–thermal conversion performance has found that the Ti3C2Tx/FCuS-IL and Ti3C2Tx/HCuS-IL nanofluids could achieve complete spectral absorption at lower mass fractions of 0.08% and 0.10%, respectively, and exhibited a faster heat transfer rate. The equilibrium temperature (Teq) that Ti3C2Tx/FCuS-IL (0.08%) could achieve was 80.2 °C at 1 sun, with a light–thermal conversion efficiency (ηLTC) of up to 94% and good cycling stability. Additionally, the evaporation performance of Ti3C2Tx/FCuS-IL (0.12%) and Ti3C2Tx/HCuS-IL (0.12%) had been improved by 148.6% and 134.3% compared to pure water at 1 sun. The outstanding light–thermal conversion performance of these nanofluids holds great potential advantages in various applications, such as seawater desalination, cancer treatment, hydrophobic anti-icing, and more.
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ACS Applied Energy Materials
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2023
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Hao Li,Shenyue Gao,Hang Ding,Yuetong Tao,Shenghua Ma,Gang Wang,Beibei Wang
Interfacial solar steam generation is considered the next-generation desalination and sewage treatment technology. However, realizing solar evaporators with broad-spectrum absorption, efficient thermal conversion, and high stability remains a challenge. The high light-trapping surface structure and fast water transport channels of the evaporator improve the evaporation efficiency, and solar evaporators have great potential in the field of solar steam generation. Herein, the mixture of transition-metal carbide (Ti3C2Tx) and core–shell Ag–SiO2 nanoparticles (Ag@SiO2 NPs) is fabricated as a three-dimensional (3D) vertical porous Ti3C2Tx/Ag@SiO2 gel evaporator via ice templating technology. The synergistic interaction between dual Ti3C2Tx–Ag plasma materials confined in a cross-linked microcapillary structure realizes 97.6% wide absorption in the wavelength range of 250–2500 nm. The SiO2 coating on the surface of Ag NPs can inhibit the oxidation of Ag NPs and conduct heat collection management. The 3D vertically cross-linked porous structure promotes efficient water transport and improves the mechanical strength of the evaporator. The Ti3C2Tx/Ag@SiO2 gel evaporator exhibits a high evaporation rate of 1.42 kg m–2 h–1 and a photothermal conversion efficiency of 98% under 1 sun illumination. The Ti3C2Tx/Ag@SiO2 gel evaporator shows great application prospects in seawater desalination and sewage purification.
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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Haifeng Bian,Guoli Zhang,Qingxi Zhai,Yanyan Du,Yujie Ma,Beibei Yang,Shaochun Tang,Duan Bin,Xiangkang Meng,Hongbin Lu
Stainless steel (SS) is a promising material for designing bipolar plates (BPs), but their further application is limited by serious corrosion problems in the acidic environment. Ti 3 C 2 T x is expected to be used for SS BPs coatings, while galvanic corrosion will occur after the damage of Ti 3 C 2 T x coating. Herein, a PPY/Ti 3 C 2 T x -AE double-layer coating (DC) is well-designed and prepared on 304SS BP, which is composed of an inner electropolymerized PPY layer and an outer Ti 3 C 2 T x -acrylic epoxy layer. When tested in 0.2 M HCl solution, the corrosion potential and corrosion current density of the DC are 38 mV and 0.00927 μA cm −2 respectively, which are superior to those of the PPY coating and the Ti 3 C 2 T x coating. Moreover, the DC presents the best long-term stability among the three coatings. The excellent corrosion resistance is attributed to the barrier and anodic protection effects as well as the solution of galvanic corrosion. The new coating system provides a new insight into the design of DC coatings of SS BPs.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2023
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Linsen Li,Xiang Gong,Zhuwei Yang,Riguang Zhang,Zhao Jiang,Tao Fang
As the candidates for large-scale hydrogen storage , liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) exhibit evident advantages in hydrogen storage density and convenience of storage and transportation. Among them, NECZ (N-ethylcarbazole)/12H-NECZ (dodecahydro-N-ethylcarbazole) is considered as a typical system with the lower hydrogenation/dehydrogenation temperature. However, the low dehydrogenation efficiency restrict its commercial applications. In this work, the single-layer Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene was employed as the support to load the Pt nanoparticles for the 12H-NECZ dehydrogenation reaction. The effect of transition metals , loading amounts and morphologies of catalysts were analyzed. It was found that the 3 wt% Pt/S–Ti 3 C 2 T x catalyst exhibited the best catalytic performance with 100% conversion, 91.55% selectivity of NECZ and 5.62 wt% hydrogen release amount at 453 K, 101.325 kPa for 7 h. The product distributions and kinetics analysis suggested that the elementary reaction from 4H-NECZ to NECZ was the rate-limiting step. The selectivity of NECZ is sensitive to the dehydrogenation temperature. Combined with the XRD , SEM , HRTEM , XPS , BET and FT-IR results, it could be indicated that the special two-dimension structure of S–Ti 3 C 2 T x and electronic effect between Pt and S–Ti 3 C 2 T x enhanced the dehydrogenation efficiency of 12H-NECZ. The measurements of cyclic dehydrogenation indicated that the Pt/S–Ti 3 C 2 T x catalyst exhibited good stability after 42 h. This work brought a new strategy for the design of efficient catalysts using two-dimensional materials in the applications of the liquid organic storage hydrogen technology .
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POLYMER
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2023
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Kefan Fan,Kun Li,Liuwenlin Han,Zhijian Yang,Junjiao Yang,Junying Zhang,Jue Cheng
The advent of hydrogel-based flexible strain sensors has generated enormous research interest due to their outstanding biocompatibility. However, developing hydrogel-based strain sensors with high gauge factor, wide detection range and multifunctional integration is still challenging. Here, a novel multifunctional hydrogel-based strain sensor is composed of two-dimensional transition metal carbides/nitrides (Ti 3 C 2 Tx MXene) and Polyacrylamide- co -Poly- N -hydroxyethylene acrylamide/Carboxy Methyl Cellulose-Fe 3+ dual network structure (PAAm-PHEMAA/CMC-Fe 3+ ) with multiple hydrogen bonds and coordination interactions. The dual network design endowed the hydrogel-based human motion sensor with fast rebound and high tensile properties , enabling it to exhibit high sensitivity (response time ∼120 ms and gauge factor ∼1.62), and a wide detection range (0–700%), including joint movements as well as more subtle human motions (facial micro-expression changes and speech). More importantly, the hydrogel-based strain sensor exhibited excellent EMI (41 dB, X-band) and UV shielding properties (365 nm, 100%, 0.5 mm) due to the synergy of porous structure, moderate conductivity, and ionic solution environment. Moreover, it demonstrated robust adhesion (29 kPa), high shape adaptability, and self-healing capability. This innovative multi-functional flexible sensor design provides guidance for the development, research and application of high-performance flexible wearable materials.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2023
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Qing-Ming Wang,Jin-Chang Lin,Zhen-Hui Liu,Qiu-Feng Lü
Ti 3 C 2 T x -based modified separation materials are widely used in the field of wastewater separation, but most of them have poor fluxes. Here, grafting of l -cysteine and l -histidine onto polydopamine-pretreated Ti 3 C 2 T x surface was used to obtain amino acid-modified Ti 3 C 2 T x (L-CPT and L-HPT), respectively, by covalent and non-covalent bonds under mild conditions, enriching variety and number of hydrophilic groups on the Ti 3 C 2 T x surface. Polyurethane sponge (PU) coated with L-CPT and L-HPT (L-CPTPU and L-HPTPU) exhibit excellent underwater oleophobicity and show impressive separation efficiency (>99.4%) for various oil-water mixtures. Especially, L-CPTPU and L-HPTPU achieved high-throughput separation for cyclohexane-water mixtures with maximum permeation fluxes of 220,319 and 222,197 L m -2 h -1 , respectively, and had excellent resistance to corrosive media. Besides, polyamide membranes modified with L-CPT and L-HPT (L-CPTPA and L-HPTPA) form abundant permeation channels, achieving high-efficiency separation for toluene in water emulsion with separation efficiency greater than 99.1%. In addition, L-CPTPA and L-HPTPA exhibited remarkable rejection (>99.1%) and high permeability (>1100 L m -2 h -1 bar -1 ) for 20 mg L -1 malachite green solution. Therefore, the amino acid-modified Ti 3 C 2 T x can functionally modify PU and PA substrates toseparate oily wastewater and dye wastewater, respectively.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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Shuqian Xie,Jinbing Shu,Hui Huang,Junhong Li,Ruirui Yue,Jingkun Xu
Improving the electrocatalytic performance by modulating the surface and interface electronic structure of noble metals is still a research hotspot in electrocatalysis . Herein, we prepared the heterogeneous catalyst based on the well-dispersed PdCu nanoalloy and the N -doped Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene support (PdCu/N-Ti 3 C 2 T x ) via in situ growth of PdCu nanoparticles on the fantastic N-Ti 3 C 2 T x sheets. By exploring the electrocatalytic properties of ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR), the composition optimized Pd 1 Cu 1 /N-Ti 3 C 2 T x delivers higher mass activity/specific activity/intrinsic activity (2200.7 mA mg Pd -1 /13.1 mA cm −2 /2.2 s −1 ), anti-poisoning ability and stability than those of Pd/N-Ti 3 C 2 T x , Pd 1 Cu 1 /Ti 3 C 2 T x and commercial Pd/C, which can be attributed to the modified surface electronic features of Pd by the participation of Cu atoms and N-Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene , as well as the “metal-carrier” effect between the PdCu nanoalloy and N-Ti 3 C 2 T x heterogeneous interface. Furthermore, the conductivity of N-Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene can be improved by N -doping, and the abundant terminal groups (-O, –OH, -F and N) on the N-Ti 3 C 2 T x surface can promote the electron exchange between PdCu and N-Ti 3 C 2 T x . This work provides an effective strategy for engineering heterogeneous electrocatalysts for enhanced electrocatalytic EOR by adjusting the interfacial electronic structure of noble metals.
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Nano Energy
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2018
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Chao Peng,Ping Wei,Xiaoyao Li,Yunpeng Liu,Yonghai Cao,Hongjuan Wang,Hao Yu,Feng Peng,Liyun Zhang,Bingsen Zhang,Kangle Lv
It is of prime importance to harness the transfer and flow of photogenerated electrons and holes to elongate the lifetimes of charge carriers and enhance the activity of semiconductor photocatalyst , which can be achieved by hybridizing the photocatalyst with appropriate cocatalysts with right electronic properties and placement. Herein, MXenes, a young family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides , are exploited as a hole mediator to enhance the photocatalytic activity of TiO 2 . We grow TiO 2 sheets exposing (001) surfaces on layered Ti 3 C 2 T x , and then photodeposited Cu 2 O nanodots on TiO 2 . We experimentally prove that the Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene from the wet HF etching method behaves as a low work function material ( ϕ = 3.4 eV). Thanks to this unique electronic property, the photogenerated electrons on TiO 2 hybridized with Ti 3 C 2 T x accumulate and tunnel to Cu 2 O to reduce it to elemental Cu as a reduction cocatalyst. The resulting Cu/TiO 2 @Ti 3 C 2 T x photocatalyst efficiently split water to produce hydrogen at 860 μmol g −1 h −1 . The results presented here demonstrate the promise of MXene materials in photocatalytic solar energy utilization. The insight into the electronic property of MXene sheds light on the new approach to the rational design of high-efficiency photocatalysts composed of MXenes.
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ACS Nano
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2018
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Sai Zhao,Hao-Bin Zhang,Jia-Qi Luo,Qi-Wei Wang,Bin Xu,Song Hong,Zhong-Zhen Yu
Two-dimensional transition-metal carbides/carbonitrides (MXenes) with both superb electrical conductivity and hydrophilicity are promising for fabricating multifunctional nanomaterials and nanocomposites. However, the construction of three-dimensional (3D) and lightweight MXene macroscopic assemblies with excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical performances has not been realized due to the weak gelation capability of MXene sheets. Herein, we demonstrate an efficient approach for constructing highly conductive 3D Ti3C2Tx porous architectures by graphene oxide assisted hydrothermal assembly followed by directional freezing and freeze-drying. The resultant hybrid aerogels exhibit aligned cellular microstructure, in which the graphene sheets serve as the inner skeleton, while the compactly attached Ti3C2Tx sheets present as shells of the cell walls. The porous and highly conductive architecture (up to 1085 S m–1) is highly efficient in endowing epoxy nanocomposite with a high electrical conductivity of 695.9 S m–1 and an outstanding electromagnetic interference (EMI)-shielding effectiveness of more than 50 dB in the X-band at a low Ti3C2Tx content of 0.74 vol %, which are the best results for polymer nanocomposites with similar loadings of MXene so far. The successful assembly methodology of 3D and porous architectures of Ti3C2Tx would greatly widen the practical applications of MXenes in the fields of EMI shielding, supercapacitors, and sensors.
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RARE METALS
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2024
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Li Zhao-Yang,Zhao Wei-Jun,Sun Yu,Zhou Bing,Feng Yue-Zhan,Liu Chun-Tai
The pressing demand for ultrathin and flexible shields to counter electromagnetic interference (EMI) has sparked interest in Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene materials due to their exceptional electrical conductivity, tunable surface chemistry, and layered structure. However, pure Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene films often lack the mechanical properties required for practical engineering applications, and traditional reinforcement methods tend to reduce electrical conductivity. This work demonstrates an effective strategy to enhance the alignment and densely packed layered structure of Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene films by regulating the acidity and alkalinity of Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene aqueous solutions. This approach simultaneously improves mechanical strength and electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE). Compared with original Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene films, MXene films modified with ammonia solution (NH 3 ·H 2 O) via OH − show a significant improvement in tensile strength (27.7 ± 1.9 MPa). Meanwhile, MXene films treated with hydrochloric acid (HCl) via H + reach an even higher tensile strength of 39 ± 1.5 MPa. Moreover, the EMI SE values of the treated MXene films increase significantly, each reaching 66.2 and 58.4 dB. The maximum improvements in EMI SE values for the acid- and alkali-treated samples are 17.9% and 4%, respectively. In conclusion, the simultaneous enhancement of mechanical strength and EMI shielding efficacy highlights the potential of acid- and alkali-treated Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene films for applications in ultrathin and flexible EMI shielding materials. Graphical abstract
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