Hydrothermal‐Assisted In Situ Intercalation Synthesis of Ti3C2Tx MXene in 6 Hours
Muhammad Imran Rameel, Gediminas Monastyreckis, Filipa M Oliveira, Bing Wu, Jiří Šturala, Vlastimil Mazánek, Zdeněk Sofer, Daiva Zeleniakiene · 2026
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Muhammad Imran Rameel and co-authors report a fast way to make Ti3C2Tx MXene, a flaky two-dimensional material prized for conductivity and surface chemistry. Standard routes can take up to two days and often give low yields. Their method etches and separates the layers inside one sealed heated vessel, finishing in six hours at ninety degrees.
A mild mix of hydrochloric acid and lithium fluoride does the etching, while lithium chloride slips between layers during the same step and loosens them. The yield of separated nanosheets reached about seventy-four percent, with single flakes roughly a nanometre thick. Checks by diffraction and spectroscopy confirmed clean aluminium removal and a surface carrying chlorine, fluorine, and oxygen groups. The product conducted electricity very well. The authors present the single-step route as a practical path toward making MXenes at commercial scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhammad Imran Rameel, Gediminas Monastyreckis, Filipa M Oliveira, Bing Wu, Jiří Šturala, Vlastimil Mazánek, Zdeněk Sofer, Daiva Zeleniakiene |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |