Mo-based MXenes: Synthesis, properties, and applications

Iftikhar Hussain; Umay Amara; Faiza Bibi; Abdul Hanan; Muhammad Nazim Lakhan; Irfan Ali Soomro; Amjad Khan; Irum Shaheen; Uzair Sajjad; Gokana Mohana Rani; Muhammad Sufyan Javed; Karim Khan; Muhammad Bilal Hanif; Mohammed A Assiri; Sumanta Sahoo; Wail Al Zoubi; Debananda Mohapatra; Kaili Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.cis.2023.103077

Mo-based MXenes: Synthesis, properties, and applications

Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2024 Feb:324:103077. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2023.103077. Epub 2024 Jan 4.

Authors

Iftikhar Hussain¹, Umay Amara², Faiza Bibi³, Abdul Hanan³, Muhammad Nazim Lakhan⁴, Irfan Ali Soomro⁵, Amjad Khan⁶, Irum Shaheen⁷, Uzair Sajjad⁸, Gokana Mohana Rani⁹, Muhammad Sufyan Javed¹⁰, Karim Khan¹¹, Muhammad Bilal Hanif¹², Mohammed A Assiri¹³, Sumanta Sahoo¹⁴, Wail Al Zoubi¹⁵, Debananda Mohapatra¹⁶, Kaili Zhang¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong. Electronic address: ihussaintoori1@gmail.com.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ Sunway Centre for Electrochemical Energy and Sustainable Technology (SCEEST), School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Selangor 47500, Malaysia.
⁴ Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science, School of Science, STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Institute of Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, PR China.
⁶ School of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan, Chungnam 31253, South Korea.
⁷ Sabanci University, SUNUM Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, Tuzla 34956, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁸ Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan.
⁹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Keelung Road, Taipei 10607, Taiwan. Electronic address: gmohanarani@gmail.com.
¹⁰ School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
¹¹ School of Electrical Engineering & Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China.
¹² Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.
¹³ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁴ School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 38541, South Korea. Electronic address: sumanta95@gmail.com.
¹⁵ Materials Electrochemistry Laboratory, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: wailalzoubi@ynu.ac.kr.
¹⁶ Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: debanandam@unist.ac.kr.
¹⁷ Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong. Electronic address: kaizhang@cityu.edu.hk.

PMID: 38219341
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2023.103077

Abstract

Ti-MXene allows a range of possibilities to tune their compositional stoichiometry due to their electronic and electrochemical properties. Other than conventionally explored Ti-MXene, there have been ample opportunities for the non-Ti-based MXenes, especially the emerging Mo-based MXenes. Mo-MXenes are established to be remarkable with optoelectronic and electrochemical properties, tuned energy, catalysis, and sensing applications. In this timely review, we systematically discuss the various organized synthesis procedures, associated experimental tunning parameters, physiochemical properties, structural evaluation, stability challenges, key findings, and a wide range of applications of emerging Mo-MXene over Ti-MXenes. We also critically examined the precise control of Mo-MXenes to cater to advanced applications by comprehensively evaluating the summary of recent studies using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools. The critical future perspectives, significant challenges, and possible outlooks for successfully developing and using Mo-MXenes for various practical applications are highlighted.

Keywords: 2D material; Advancements; Applications; MXenes; Mo-MXenes; Synthesis.

Publication types

Review