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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 2377-2384Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03710
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- Academy of Finland [311058]
- HPC-EUROPA3 [INFRAIA-2016-1-730897]
- Swedish Research Council [2018-05973]
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This study explores the distribution and composition of surface functional groups on different MXenes using a multiscale computational approach. It shows that mixtures of functional groups are favorable on all studied MXene surfaces and that the distribution of functional groups is largely independent of the type of metal, carbon, or nitrogen species and/or number of atomic layers in the MXene. Some properties strongly depend on surface composition, while others exhibit only weak dependence.
Using a multiscale computational scheme, we study the trends in distribution and composition of the surface functional groups -O, -OH, and -F on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes). We consider Ti2N, Ti4N3, Nb2C, Nb4C3, Ti2C, and Ti3C2 to explore MXenes with different chemistry and different number of atomic layers. Using a combination of cluster expansion, Monte Carlo, and density functional theory methods, we study the distribution and composition of functional groups at experimentally relevant conditions. We show that mixtures of functional groups are favorable on all studied MXene surfaces. The distribution of functional groups appears to be largely independent of the type of metal, carbon, or nitrogen species and/or number of atomic layers in the MXene. We further show that some properties (e.g., the work function) strongly depend on the surface composition, while others, for example, the electric conductivity, exhibit only a weak dependence.
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