In a hunt for more sustainable technologies, researchers are looking further into enabling two-dimensional materials in renewable energy that could lead to sustainable production of chemicals such as ...

An international team of researchers has developed a breakthrough method for producing MXenes—an important family of two-dimensional materials—with unprecedented purity and control. The new ...

MXenes – pronounced 'max-eens' – first discovered in 2011, are ceramics that comprise one of the largest families of two-dimensional (2D) materials. MXenes are made from a bulk crystal called MAX. 2D ...

Michael Naguib remembers with humor and humility the day he accidentally discovered a remarkable new material. It was a hot August morning in 2010. Naguib, a PhD student at Drexel University, had been ...

The MXene class of materials has many talents. An international team has now demonstrated that MXenes, properly functionalized, are excellent catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in ...

Electrocatalysts play a key role in enabling hydrogen generation through water splitting. Among the latest materials under investigation, two-dimensional (2D) materials known as MXenes have shown ...

Reporting their findings in Advanced Materials ("Ultrafast Synthesis of MXenes in Minutes via Low-Temperature Molten Salt Etching"), researchers now have introduced a novel low-temperature molten salt ...

Two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, known as MXenes, have emerged as versatile additives and interface modifiers in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Their exceptional electrical ...