Scientists state the material has promising applications, such as high-capacity batteries and advanced electronics.
Tulane Universitys School of Science and Engineering has actually produced a new household of two-dimensional products with appealing applications, including high-capacity batteries and sophisticated electronic devices.
The research study, which was led by Michael Naguib, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, was released in the journal Advanced Materials.
” Two-dimensional materials are nanomaterials with density in the nanometer size (a nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter) and lateral measurements thousands of times the thickness,” Naguib stated. “Their flatness provides special set of residential or commercial properties compared to bulk products.”
The new household of 2D materials is called transition metal carbo-chalcogenides, or TMCC. It combines the qualities of two families of 2D materials– transition metal carbides and transition metal dichalcogenides.
According to Naguib, the Ken & & Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Science and Engineering, the latter is a broad family of materials that has been intensively researched and shown to be extremely promising, particularly for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He stated that one of the troubles in utilizing them is their poor electrical conductivity and stability.
Michael Naguib, the Ken & & Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Science and Engineering, is a specialist in two-dimensional material and electrochemical energy storage. Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano
On the other hand, he stated, shift metal carbides are exceptional electrical conductors with a lot more powerful conductivity. Merging the two households into one is prepared for to have terrific potential for many applications such as batteries and supercapacitors, catalysis, sensing units and electronic devices.
” Instead of stacking the 2 various materials like Lego foundation with numerous troublesome user interfaces, here we establish a brand-new 2D material that has the combination of both compositions with no user interface,” he said.
” We utilized an electrochemical-assisted exfoliation process by placing lithium ions in-between the layers of bulk transition metals carbo-chalcogenides followed by agitation in water,” stated Ahmad Majed, the very first author of the short article and a doctoral candidate in Materials Physics and Engineering at Tulane working in Naguibs group.
Unlike other unique nanomaterials, Majed stated, the process of making these 2D TMCC nanomaterials is scalable and easy.
In addition to Naguib and Majed, the team consists of Jiang Wei, an associate professor in physics and engineering physics; Jianwei Sun, an assistant professor in physics and engineering physics; PhD candidates Kaitlyn Prenger, Manish Kothakonda, and Fei Wang at Tulane; and Dr Eric N. Tseng and teacher Per O.A. Persson of Linköping University in Sweden.
This study was supported by Naguibs National Science Foundation Career Award which he received less than a year earlier.
Referral: “Transition Metal Carbo-Chalcogenide “TMCC”: A New Family of 2D Materials” by Ahmad Majed, Manish Kothakonda, Fei Wang, Eric N. Tseng, Kaitlyn Prenger, Xiaodong Zhang, Per O. Å. Persson, Jiang Wei, Jianwei Sun and Michael Naguib, 13 April 2022, Advanced Materials.DOI: 10.1002/ adma.202200574.