High-permittivity Solvents Increase MXene Stability and Stacking Order Enabling Ultraefficient Terahertz Shielding

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2D transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) suggest an uncommonly broad combination of important functionalities amongst 2D materials. Nevertheless, MXene suffers from facile oxidation and colloidal instability upon conventional water-based processing, thus limiting applicability. By experiments and theory, It is suggested that for stability and dispersibility, it is critical to select uncommonly high permittivity solvents such as N-methylformamide (NMF) and formamide (FA) (εr  = 171, 109), unlike the classical solvents characterized by high dipole moment and polarity index. They also allow high MXene stacking order within thin films on carbon nanotube (CNT) substrates, showing very high Terahertz (THz) shielding effectiveness (SE) of 40-60 dB at 0.3-1.6 THz in spite of the film thinness < 2 µm. The stacking order and mesoscopic porosity turn relevant for THz-shielding as characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The mechanistic understanding of stability and structural order allows guidance for generic MXene applications, in particular in telecommunication, and more generally processing of 2D materials.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

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Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - 11(2024), 5 vom: 28. Feb., Seite e2305099

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hong, Xiaodan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Zhenyu [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Zhong-Peng [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Ahmadi, Mohsen [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Linfan [VerfasserIn]
Liljeström, Ville [VerfasserIn]
Dudko, Volodymyr [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jiali [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Xiaoqi [VerfasserIn]
Tsapenko, Alexey P [VerfasserIn]
Breu, Josef [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Zhipei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Kauppinen, Esko [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Ikkala, Olli [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Janus film
Journal Article
MXene
Permittivity
Stability
Terahertz shielding
X-ray scattering

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Date Revised 05.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/advs.202305099

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NLM365352942