Alkali-induced crumpling of Ti3C2Tx (MXene) to form 3D porous networks for sodium ion storage

Di Zhao; Mallory Clites; Guobing Ying; Sankalp Kota; Jie Wang; Varun Natu; Xin Wang; Ekaterina Pomerantseva; Minhua Cao; Michel W Barsoum

doi:10.1039/c8cc00649k

Alkali-induced crumpling of Ti₃C₂T_x (MXene) to form 3D porous networks for sodium ion storage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 1;54(36):4533-4536. doi: 10.1039/c8cc00649k.

Authors

Di Zhao¹, Mallory Clites, Guobing Ying, Sankalp Kota, Jie Wang, Varun Natu, Xin Wang, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Minhua Cao, Michel W Barsoum

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. barsoumw@drexel.edu.

PMID: 29663005
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc00649k

Abstract

We present a novel strategy for constructing three-dimensional (3D) porous Ti3C2Tx (MXene) networks by alkali-induced crumpling of Ti3C2Tx nanosheets. The 3D porous Ti3C2Tx networks display high capacity and outstanding rate performance as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries.