Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 094(2024)

Versatile MXene Gels Assisted by Brief and Low-Strength Centrifugation

Weiyan Yu1...2, Yi Yang1,2, Yunjing Wang2, Lulin Hu1,2, Jingcheng Hao2,3,*, Lu Xu1,2,**, and Weimin Liu12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing at Yantai, Yantai, 264006, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People’s Republic of China
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    Due to the mutual repulsion between their hydrophilic surface terminations and the high surface energy facilitating their random restacking, 2D MXene nanosheets usually cannot self-assemble into 3D macroscopic gels with various applications in the absence of proper linking agents. In this work, a rapid spontaneous gelation of Ti3C2Tx MXene with a very low dispersion concentration of 0.5 mg mL-1 into multifunctional architectures under moderate centrifugation is illustrated. The as-prepared MXene gels exhibit reconfigurable internal structures and tunable rheological, tribological, electrochemical, infrared-emissive and photothermal-conversion properties based on the pH-induced changes in the surface chemistry of Ti3C2Tx nanosheets. By adopting a gel with optimized pH value, high lubrication, exceptional specific capacitances (~ 635 and ~ 408 F g-1 at 5 and 100 mV s-1, respectively), long-term capacitance retention (~ 96.7% after 10,000 cycles) and high-precision screen- or extrusion-printing into different high-resolution anticounterfeiting patterns can be achieved, thus displaying extensive potential applications in the fields of semi-solid lubrication, controllable devices, supercapacitors, information encryption and infrared camouflaging.

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    Weiyan Yu, Yi Yang, Yunjing Wang, Lulin Hu, Jingcheng Hao, Lu Xu, Weimin Liu. Versatile MXene Gels Assisted by Brief and Low-Strength Centrifugation[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 094

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Aug. 14, 2023

    Accepted: Nov. 25, 2023

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Hao Jingcheng (jhao@sdu.edu.cn), Xu Lu (xulu@licp.cas.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01302-3

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