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A potential application of two-dimensional (2D) MXenes, such as Ti2CTx and Ti3C2Tx, is energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors, batteries, and hydride electrochemical cells, where intercalation of ions between the 2D layers is…

Two-dimensional MXenes are promising solid lubricants, but the roles of compositional complexity and surface chemistry in governing interfacial friction remain unclear. Here, we systematically investigate the adhesion and friction behaviors…

Bare and surface-passivated Fe2N, Co2N, and Ni2N MXene were investigated by using density functional theory. Fe2N(OH)2, Fe2NO2, Co2NO2, Ni2NF2, Ni2N(OH)2, and Ni2NO2 are intrinsic half-metals, while other structures have antiferromagnetic…

Magnetic 2D materials have achieved significantly consideration owing to their encouraging applications. A variation of these 2D materials by occurrence of defects, by the transition-metal doping or adsorption or by the surface…

The chemical bonding in the carbide core and the surface chemistry in a new group of transition-metal carbides Tin+1Cn-Tx (n=1,2) called MXenes have been investigated by surface-sensitive valence band X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.…

This letter predicts unprecedented order-to-disorder transition behaviors in multicomponent MXenes using an integrated and improved first-principles Monte Carlo (MC) framework. The improvements include (i) structural relaxation and (ii)…

Half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors are promising candidates for spintronic applications due to the complete (100%) spin polarization of electrons around the Fermi level. Based on recent experimental and theoretical findings of…

The two-dimensional compound group of MXenes, which exhibit unique optical, electrical, chemical, and mechanical properties, are an exceptional class of transition metal carbides and nitrides. In addition to traditional applications in…

Despite the interest in MXenes in the last decade, all of the MXenes reported have a random mixture of surface terminations (-O, -OH, -F). In addition, restacked films have turbostratic disorder and often contain ions, solvent, and other…

Using a set of first-principles calculations, we studied the electronic structures of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, so called MXenes, functionalized with F, O, and OH. Our projected band structures and electron…

MXene and its derivatives have attracted considerable attention for potential application in energy storage like batteries and supercapacitors owing to its ultrathin metallic structures. However, the complexity of the ionic and electronic…

MXene, the two-dimensional derivatives of MAX compounds, due to their structural and compositional flexibility, is an ideal family of compounds to study a number of structure-property relations. In this work, we have investigated the…

Tuning the electronic and magnetic properties of a material through strain engineering is an effective strategy to enhance the performance of electronic and spintronic devices. Recently synthesized two-dimensional transition metal carbides…

Ti-based two-dimensional transition-metal carbides (MXenes) have attracted attention due to their superior properties and are being explored across various applications1,2. Despite their versatile properties, superconductivity has never…

MXenes are a new, and growing, family of 2D materials with very promising properties for a wide variety of applications. Obtained from the etching of MAX phases, numerous properties can be targeted thanks to the chemical richness of the…

Although two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) have fantastic physical and chemical properties as well as wide applications, it remains challenging to produce stable MXenes due to their rapid structural…

MXene, the class of two-dimensional materials, has been found to be useful as potential electrode materials for electrochemical capacitors. Although experimental investigation on the electrochemical performances of a few MXenes have been…

Two-dimensional Cr2N MXene as well as the surface-passivated Cr2NF2, Cr2N(OH)2 and Cr2NO2 are investigated by using density functional theory. The Cr2N is an anti-ferromagnetic metal. The F atom or OH group-passivation does not change the…

The transition metal carbides (namely MXenes) and their functionalized derivatives exhibit various physical and chemical characteristics and offer many potential applications in electronic devices and sensors. Using density functional…

This study reports first synthesis of MXene-derived co-existing phases. New family of two-dimensional materials such as Ti3C2 namely MXene, having transition metal forming hexagonal structure with carbon atoms have attracted tremendous…