Recent Progress and New Horizons in Emerging Novel MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications for Current Environmental Remediation and Energy Crises

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Recent Progress and New Horizons in Emerging Novel MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications for Current Environmental Remediation and Energy Crises - Electrochemical Energy Reviews

Unsustainable fossil fuel energy usage and its environmental impacts are the most significant scientific challenges in the scientific community. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received a lot of attention recently because of their great potential for application in addressing some of society’s most enduring issues with renewable energy. Transition metal-based nitrides, carbides, or carbonitrides, known as “MXenes”, are a relatively new and large family of 2D materials. Since the discovery of the first MXene, Ti3C2 in 2011 has become one of the fastest-expanding families of 2D materials with unique physiochemical features. MXene surface terminations with hydroxyl, oxygen, fluorine, etc., are invariably present in the so far reported materials, imparting hydrophilicity to their surfaces. The current finding of multi-transition metal-layered MXenes with controlled surface termination capacity opens the door to fabricating unique structures for producing renewable energy. MXene NMs-based flexible chemistry allows them to be tuned for energy-producing/storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, gas/biosensors, water distillation, nanocomposite reinforcement, lubrication, and photo/electro/chemical catalysis. This review will first discuss the advancement of MXenes synthesis methods, their properties/stability, and renewable energy applications. Secondly, we will highlight the constraints and challenges that impede the scientific community from synthesizing functional MXene with controlled composition and properties. We will further reveal the high-tech implementations for renewable energy storage applications along with future challenges and their solutions. Graphical Abstract

Unsustainable fossil fuel energy usage and its environmental impacts are the most significant scientific challenges in the scientific community. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received a lot of attention recently because of their great potential for application in addressing some of society’s most enduring issues with renewable energy. Transition metal-based nitrides, carbides, or carbonitrides, known as “MXenes”, are a relatively new and large family of 2D materials. Since the discovery of the first MXene, Ti3C2 in 2011 has become one of the fastest-expanding families of 2D materials with unique physiochemical features. MXene surface terminations with hydroxyl, oxygen, fluorine, etc., are invariably present in the so far reported materials, imparting hydrophilicity to their surfaces. The current finding of multi-transition metal-layered MXenes with controlled surface termination capacity opens the door to fabricating unique structures for producing renewable energy. MXene NMs-based flexible chemistry allows them to be tuned for energy-producing/storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, gas/biosensors, water distillation, nanocomposite reinforcement, lubrication, and photo/electro/chemical catalysis. This review will first discuss the advancement of MXenes synthesis methods, their properties/stability, and renewable energy applications. Secondly, we will highlight the constraints and challenges that impede the scientific community from synthesizing functional MXene with controlled composition and properties. We will further reveal the high-tech implementations for renewable energy storage applications along with future challenges and their solutions.

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Karim Khan (He/Him)
Researcher, University of Technology Sydney

My research and professional experiences are in synthesis, characterisation ( like, TG/DTA, XRD, SEM/TEM, XPS, RAMAN, Hall-effect, 4-probe method, Ellipsometry, Electrocatalytic measurements, Gloves boxes, PPMS/SQUID, etc) in a weekly/daily routine for my research work) and application of nanoparticles (Mayenite Electrides, Oxides, Nitrides, and Carbides) and 2D-materials (Graphene family, Xenes, MXenes, TMDCs, and their nanocomposites), and bulk targets formation, for example, Transparent Conducting Oxides target (Mayenite electride, etc), their Thin Films  (physical deposition method (Magnetron Sputtering, Spin-Coating, Rod coating, spray coating, 3D-Printing, etc), and chemical deposition techniques) for numerous applications like, electrochemistry-related to catalysts (for CO2 reduction, Oxygen reduction reaction, complete water splitting/hydrogen production (Oxygen/Hydrogen evaluation reaction, etc.), renewable energy producing/storage devices as electrode materials, (fuel cells, Supercapacitore, batteries), and sensors (traditional and MEMS/NEMs devices). Welcome for collaboration in research and funding.

Karim Khan, PhD

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Researcher (2024-till now)

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Research Associate (2023-2024)

Shenzhen University,

Senior researcher: Electrocatalytic gas sensors (2021-2023)

Nuoan Environment Industries, Shenzhen, China

Postdoctoral fellow in Material Science /Physics (2017-2021)

Shenzhen University and Dongguan University of Technology,

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Physics / Materials (2013-2016)

Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering (NIMTE),

Chinese academy of sciences (CAS), Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.

Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Solid State Physics (2010-2012)

Centre of Excellence in Solid State Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

Research: National Center for Physics (N.C.P), 

Quaid-e-Azim University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Master of Science (M. Sc) in Physics (2006-2009)

Institute of Physics and Electronics, 

University of Peshawar, Pakistan.

karim_khan_niazi@yahoo.com

Cell:  0086-13828851449 (China)

Top 2% highly-cited researchers worldwide (2020-2023)

ORCID iD     https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8689-9245

https://publons.com/researcher/3037967/karim-khan/

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