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MXenes are a family two-dimensional transition metal carbide and nitride materials, which often exhibit very good metallic conductivity and are thus of great interest for applications in, e.g., flexible electronics, electrocatalysis, and…
High-temperature solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) are a potential core power-to-X (P2X) technology due to their unparalleled system efficiencies, that can exceed 85 % when excess heat from exothermic downstream processes is available.…
Note this is a rather coarse version of our manuscript since uploading tex files are necessary (we are not willing to upload all tex files). The existence of BiXenes, a new family of 2D monolayers is here predicted. Theoretically, BiXenes…
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A well-established procedure for the photoelectrochemical (PEC) splitting of water relies on using porous electrodes of WO3 sensitized with BiVO4 as a visible scavenger photoanode semiconductor. In this work, we propose an evolved…
The junctions formed between gate contact and III-nitride are crucial components of GaN-based electronics and optoelectronics. In this work, solution-processed inorganic Ti3C2Tx MXene films were spray coated on the AlGaN/GaN epitaxial wafer…
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We compute from first principles the electronic, vibrational, and transport properties of four known MXenes compound : Ti3C2, Ti3C2F2, Ti3C2(OH)2, and Ti2CF2. We study the effect of different surface terminations and monosheet thickness on…
The properties of MXenes, a new group of quasi-two-dimensional d-metal carbide or nitride nanomaterials derived by chemical exfoliation from the MAX phases, can be very sensitive to the presence of surface functional groups. Herein, the…
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