Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages 17665-17674Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08770
Keywords
pillared-MXenes; few-layered MXenes; SnS; large interlayer spacing; lithium ion storage
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51901206]
- Taihu Electric Corporation [0001]
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MXenes have been widely explored in energy storage because of their extraordinary properties; however, the majority of research on their application was staged at multilayered MXenes or assisted by carbon materials. Scientifically speaking, the two most distinctive properties of MXenes are usually neglected, composed of large interlayer spacing and abundant surface chemistry, which distinguish MXenes from other two-dimensional materials. Herein, few-layered MXene (f-MXene) nanosheet powders can be easily prepared according to the modified solution-phase flocculation method, completely avoiding the restacking phenomenon of f-MXene nanosheets in preparation and oxidation issues during the storage process. Via further employing the solvothermal reaction and annealing treatment, we successfully constructed pillared SnS/Ti3C2Tx composites decorated with in situ formed TiO2 nanoparticles. In the composites, MXenes can play the role of a conductive network, a buffer matrix for volume expansion of SnS, while the active SnS nanoplates can fully deliver the advantage of high capacity and further induce interlayer engineering of Ti3C2Tx during cycling. As a result, the pillared SnS/Ti3C2Tx MXene composites exhibit obvious improvement in electrochemical performance. Interestingly, there is an apparent enhancement of capacity at succedent cycling, which can be ascribed to the pillar effect of Ti3C2Tx MXenes. The efforts and attempts made in this work can further broaden the development of pillared MXene composites.
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