Versatile MXene Gels Assisted by Brief and Low-Strength Centrifugation

Weiyan Yu; Yi Yang; Yunjing Wang; Lulin Hu; Jingcheng Hao; Lu Xu; Weimin Liu

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01302-3

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)

Author Affiliations

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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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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