The MXene nano-lasagna: Novel 2D materials gain momentum

Versatile group of materials suitable for a wide range of applications, from #energystorage to #medicine: #MXenes, a new class of two-dimensional materials. Empa researchers make significant progress in modeling and synthesizing MXenes.
www.empa.ch/web/s604/mxe...
@nanotechsurflab.bsky.social

The image combines a model derived from a scanning electron microscopy image (left) with a snippet of the underlying crystal structure of a studied MXene featuring precisely controlled surface terminations.

New route into #2D materials: Research team from @tudresden.bsky.social, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2...

Hidden cost of MXene solvent exchange: vigorous shaking damages Ti3C2Tx nanosheets irreversibly, killing conductivity long-term.

Gentle processing is key!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#MXenes #Nanotech

@rsc.org

Nanogenerators for energy harvesting: a holistic review of mechanisms, materials, and emerging applications

This Nanotechnology Reviews review examines #Nanogenerator advancements, highlighting how #MXenes and #Biodegradable composites enable high-efficiency #EnergyHarvesting for self-powered wearable medical devices and autonomous #Sensor systems.
#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1515/ntre...

Stretchable OLEDs Just Got a Huge Upgrade Wearable displays are catching up with phones and smart watches. For decades, engineers have sought OLEDs that can bend, twist, and stretch while maintaini...

#Oleds #Materials #science #Mxenes #Flexible #displays […]

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Researchers fabricate PMMA–MXene (Ti₃C₂Tₓ) nanocomposite thin films, tuning MXene loading to enhance both optical and electrical conductivity — a route toward flexible electronic and photonic devices.
Open Chemistry
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#MXenes #Nanocomposites #AdvancedMaterials

Did you miss our last #GRAPHERGIAhub Webinar Series? 💡

Read the article & watch the recording of the session “Laser-Induced #Graphene & #MXenes for Wearable Devices”:

🔗 graphergia.eu/2025/11/13/g...

▶️ youtu.be/pKaGZbBDeoM?...

@forth-ite.bsky.social @australo.bsky.social

#GRAPHERGIA #Energy

It is a gorgeous morning at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston!
📣 My talk is TODAY (Mon, Dec 1st) at 4.30 pm in Sheraton Back Bay.
📖 I will talk about V-MXenes (& V-MAX phases) and sprinkle in some electrocatalytic properties.
⭐ Let me know if you are around!
#F25MRS #MXenes #MAXPhases #chemsky #matsky

Research into more efficient and reliable batteries - IT4Innovations New research shows that introducing single atoms into specialised two-dimensional materials called MXenes, and subtly straining their structure, can significantly accelerate chemical reactions and pre...

⚡ Boosting Li-S Battery Performance!

Researchers from China, the USA & IT4Innovations used single-atom MXenes + strain engineering to speed up reactions & stop polysulfide “shuttling.”

Full story: www.it4i.cz/en/about/inf...

#Batteries #MXenes #Supercomputer #eINFRAcz

Recent advancements and assessments in MXene-based composites stability for efficient solar-heating water evaporation: A systematic and comprehensive review MXenes, an extensive family of two-dimensional (2D) materials, have attracted significant attention across diverse fields owing to their exceptional b…

Learn more about strategies to enhance the oxidation stability of MXenes through preparation of composites, and their performance in photothermal water evaporation systems in this comprehensive review #MXenes #wastewater_treatment #photothermal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did you miss our #GRAPHERGIAhub Webinar Series yesterday?⚡🌐

▶️ Catch the presentations & watch the full recording: graphergia.eu/2025/11/13/g...

Thank you to the over 50 participants who joined us to discuss about laser-induced #graphene & #MXenes for #WearableSensors

@forth-ite.bsky.social

⚡ The next #GRAPHERGIAHub Webinar Series – Session 3 is coming up!

🗓️ Join us on 13 NOV at 12:00 CET for a session on #WearableSensor technologies.

👉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👀 Info: graphergia.eu/2025/10/23/g...

#2Dmaterials #graphene #MXenes

@forth-ite.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Teng Zhang on his successful PhD defense! A great contribution to the science of #MXenes!

🔊 Save the date for the next #GRAPHERGIAhub webinar on laser-induced #graphene & #MXenes for #WearableDevices!

🗓️ 13 November - 12:00 CET
🖥️ Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Speakers: Spyros Yannopoulos (@forth-ite.bsky.social) & Marko Spasenović (POLYGRAPH)

@australo.bsky.social

SnSiGeN4, a novel MXene, boosts photocatalytic water splitting for cleaner energy—potentially transforming hydrogen production and reducing our carbon footprint. What are your thoughts on MXenes in renewable energy? Let's discuss! #CleanEnergy #SustainableTech #MXenes LINK

Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemical Behavior of Layered Vanadium Nitride MXene MXenes have been extensively studied for over a decade, with numerous compositions successfully synthesized. However, the top-down synthesis of vanadium nitride (V2NTx) has remained elusive despite it...

Interested in nitride MXenes? Together with the Djire group, we synthesized V2NTx and compared it to its carbide sibling. The new 2D nitride exhibits improved performance and greater stability. Available #openaccess at ACS Nano.
Check it out!
#MXenes #chemsky #matsky
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#GRAPHERGIA at #GrapheneWeek2025 ! ⚡

Join Diana Marcano (Poznań Institute of Technology)
in our workshop with #SAFARIProject on 25/09

Don't miss her talk "Advancing Biosensors via Sustainable #MXenes: The SAFARI Project's Green & Upscaled Synthesis"

👉 graphergia.eu/2025/08/26/e...

#2Dmaterials

Illustration from the Royal Society of Chemistry showing four colorful shaped diagrams, each labeled with different scientific focus areas like "Theoretical studies" and "High/low temperature," to explain surface engineering and electrochemical reactions.

Advances of the Week - Week 10
This paper reviews MXene–carbon hybrids that combine conductivity, stability, and high surface area for advanced energy storage.
🔗 Read: https://rsc.li/3I4drxU
#ChemSky #AdvancesOfTheWeek #EnergyStorage #Supercapacitors #MXenes #OpenAccess

Do you want to know where the field of #MXenes goes? Scan the QR code to listen to my #MXene lecture tomorrow or find it later on YouTube.
youtube.com/@icanxtalks625

I look forward to delivering a plenary lecture on Challenges and Opportunities in Characterization of #MXenes at the 2025 Advanced Light Source User Meeting in Berkeley on Monday, August 11th: als.lbl.gov/agenda/

Selectivity Control in the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction over Mo2C MXene by a Nitrogen-Rich Environment Electrochemical ammonia formation through electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction (NRR) is an environmentally friendly route, but the low intrinsic activity of catalytic materials and competition with the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) represent a major hurdle for large-scale implementation. Strategies to achieve high NRR selectivity in aqueous medium, which is promising for scale up due to their simplicity, nontoxicity, and low cost, are still quite limited. Using density functional theory calculations combined with descriptor-based analyses, we investigate NRR over Mo2C, a two-dimensional material from the MXene class that is considered as a potential NRR catalyst based on previous experimental and theoretical work. We outline that several reaction mechanisms and elementary reaction steps contribute to the formation of ammonia for Mo2C(0001), indicating that the conventional picture of a single rate-determining step is insufficient to describe the complex proton-coupled electron transfer steps of NRR. Our theoretical study shows that a nitrogen-rich environment around the catalytically active site allows selectivity to be directed toward ammonia formation due to increased NRR activity while simultaneously decreasing HER activity. This finding could serve as a guide for the synthesis of heterogeneous electrocatalysts with a nitrogen-rich environment near the active site to steer the selectivity problem of the competing NRR and HER to ammonia formation.

🚨 New Article!
"Selectivity Control in the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction over Mo2C MXene by a Nitrogen-Rich Environment"
🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
This study opens a new design space for sustainable nitrogen fixation! 🌱⚡
#MXenes #Electrocatalysis #GreenAmmonia #NRR #SustainableCatalysis #Nature

OECD Publishes Case Study on 2D Titanium Carbide MXenes  - Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. On June 30, 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report entitled 2D Titanium Carbide MXenes: Case Study

B&C's NANOblog : OECD Publishes Case Study on 2D Titanium Carbide MXenes
www.lawbc.com/oecd-publish...
#MXenes, #OECD, #WPMN

You can find me at RamanFest 2025 in Frankfurt on Tuesday, June 2. Welcome to my keynote lecture on Raman spectroscopy of #MXenes!
ramanfestconf.com/2025/

I look forward to speaking about Multifunctional Materials Assembled from 2D #MXenes and other Nanoscale Building Blocks in the Pregl Colloquium at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana.
www.ki.si/en/news/preg...

Effect of Sonication Approaches on the Silanization and Structural Quality of Multilayer Ti3C2Tx Multilayer Ti3C2Tx is successfully silanized by trimethoxy(octyl)silane using four sonication methods, thus evaluating their impact on Ti3C2Tx's structural quality. Spectroscopy techniques confirm th...

New paper from PhD student Eva Tormos Feliu. From her TFM, where we collaborated with Profs. Andreas Rosenkranz and Monica Soler at @uchile.bsky.social
We report surface functionalization of #MXenes to increase their hydrophobicity.
#2Dmaterials
@ub.edu @in2ub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/adem...

次世代導電性材料「Ti3C2Tx MXene」の特設サイトが公開へ 日本材料技研が、次世代導電性材料「Ti3C2Tx MXene」の特設Webサイトを公開。特性や応用を詳しく紹介する情報源として注目されています。

次世代導電性材料「Ti3C2Tx MXene」の特設サイトが公開へ #東京都 #中央区 #日本材料技研 #MXenes #Ti3C2Tx

日本材料技研が、次世代導電性材料「Ti3C2Tx MXene」の特設Webサイトを公開。特性や応用を詳しく紹介する情報源として注目されています。

Honored to receive the Robert C. Haddon Research Award from the Nanocarbons Division, and deliver my Award Lecture on #MXenes and Their Hybrids with #graphene and Other Materials at #ECS247. Thanks to my research team, my collaborators and my nominator. @drexelbritt.bsky.social

Piezo‐Electro‐Catalytic Hydrogen Production via Piezoelectric Fluoropolymers Piezo-electro-catalysis is demonstrated to double the efficiency of hydrogen production from acid by combining a self-poled fluoropolymer with a platinum mesh. The improvement is attributed to locali...

New paper on #Hydrogen Evolution!

Really proud of this one - dx.doi.org/10.1002/aesr...

We figured out a way to make non-stick fluoropolymers 'stick' to metals. This meant that if we use #MXenes to polarise the fluoropolymer we get excellent #piezoelectric coupling.

#chemsky 🧪 #science

Our Methods article in Small Methods is the first work addressing the application of X-ray Computed Tomography (micro-CT and nano-CT) to #MXenes. We hope it will provide useful guidance to the #2Dmaterials research community: doi.org/10.1002/smtd...