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Oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene towards high performance lithium/ sodium storage

Show Author's Information Xiaolan Song1,§,  Hui Wang1,§,  Shengming Jin1,  Miao Lv1,  Ying Zhang1,  Xiaodong Kong1,  Hongmei Xu1,  Ting Ma1,  Xinyuan Luo1,  Hengfeng Tan1,  Dong Hu1,  Chaoyong Deng2,  Xinghua Chang1( ),  Jianlong Xu3( )
Hunan Key Lab of Mineral Materials and Application, School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., LTD, Qingyuan 513055, China
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

§ Xiaolan Song and Hui Wang contributed equally to this work.

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delamination, lithium ion battery, sodium ion battery, oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene, pseudocapacitance contribution
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2D MXenes are highly attractive for achieving ultrafast and stable lithium/sodium storage due to their good electric conductivity and abundant redox active sites. While, effective strategies for scalable preparation of oligolayered MXenes are still under exploration. Herein, oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene is successfully obtained after conventional synthesis of multilayered Ti3C2 and subsequent delamination process via an organic solvent of tetramethyl-ammonium hydroxide (TMAOH). Comprehensive electrochemical study reveals that surface-controlled redox reaction dominated the charge storage behavior of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx with fast reaction kinetics. Impressively, the obtained oligolayered Ti3C2Tx exhibits excellent lithium/sodium storage performance, featured for a high specific capacity of 330 mAh·g-1 at 1.0 A·g-1 after 800 cycles for lithium storage and 280 mAh·g-1 at 0.5 A·g-1 after 500 cycles for sodium storage. Such impressive performance will advance the development of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx based materials for lithium/sodium storage and even broaden their application into energy storage.


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Oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene towards high performance lithium/ sodium storage

Show Author's information Xiaolan Song1,§, Hui Wang1,§, Shengming Jin1, Miao Lv1, Ying Zhang1, Xiaodong Kong1, Hongmei Xu1, Ting Ma1, Xinyuan Luo1, Hengfeng Tan1, Dong Hu1, Chaoyong Deng2, Xinghua Chang1( ), Jianlong Xu3( )
Hunan Key Lab of Mineral Materials and Application, School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., LTD, Qingyuan 513055, China
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

§ Xiaolan Song and Hui Wang contributed equally to this work.

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2D MXenes are highly attractive for achieving ultrafast and stable lithium/sodium storage due to their good electric conductivity and abundant redox active sites. While, effective strategies for scalable preparation of oligolayered MXenes are still under exploration. Herein, oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene is successfully obtained after conventional synthesis of multilayered Ti3C2 and subsequent delamination process via an organic solvent of tetramethyl-ammonium hydroxide (TMAOH). Comprehensive electrochemical study reveals that surface-controlled redox reaction dominated the charge storage behavior of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx with fast reaction kinetics. Impressively, the obtained oligolayered Ti3C2Tx exhibits excellent lithium/sodium storage performance, featured for a high specific capacity of 330 mAh·g-1 at 1.0 A·g-1 after 800 cycles for lithium storage and 280 mAh·g-1 at 0.5 A·g-1 after 500 cycles for sodium storage. Such impressive performance will advance the development of oligolayered Ti3C2Tx based materials for lithium/sodium storage and even broaden their application into energy storage.

Keywords: delamination, lithium ion battery, sodium ion battery, oligolayered Ti3C2Tx MXene, pseudocapacitance contribution

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Received: 02 January 2020
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Published: 28 April 2020
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This work was supported by Science Research Initiation Fund of Central South University (No. 202045012), Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province (No. 20181ACE50013), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University (No. 2019zzts708), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61705152).

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