A Two-Dimensional Zirconium Carbide by Selective Etching of Al3C3 from Nanolaminated Zr3Al3C5

Jie Zhou; Xianhu Zha; Fan Y Chen; Qun Ye; Per Eklund; Shiyu Du; Qing Huang

doi:10.1002/anie.201510432

A Two-Dimensional Zirconium Carbide by Selective Etching of Al3C3 from Nanolaminated Zr3Al3C5

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Apr 11;55(16):5008-13. doi: 10.1002/anie.201510432. Epub 2016 Mar 9.

Authors

Jie Zhou¹, Xianhu Zha¹, Fan Y Chen¹, Qun Ye¹, Per Eklund², Shiyu Du³, Qing Huang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Engineering Laboratory of Specialty Fibers and Nuclear Energy Materials (FiNE), Ningbo Institute of Materials Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315201, China.
² Thin Film Physics Division, Linköping University, IFM, 58183, Linköping, Sweden.
³ Engineering Laboratory of Specialty Fibers and Nuclear Energy Materials (FiNE), Ningbo Institute of Materials Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315201, China. dushiyu@nimte.ac.cn.
⁴ Engineering Laboratory of Specialty Fibers and Nuclear Energy Materials (FiNE), Ningbo Institute of Materials Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315201, China. huangqing@nimte.ac.cn.

PMID: 26959082
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510432

Abstract

The room-temperature synthesis of a new two-dimensional (2D) zirconium-containing carbide, Zr3C2T(z) MXene is presented. In contrast to traditional preparation of MXene, the layered ternary Zr3Al3C5 material instead of MAX phases is used as source under hydrofluoric acid treatment. The structural, mechanical, and electronic properties of the synthesized 2D carbide are investigated, combined with first-principles density functional calculations. A comparative study on the structrual stability of our obtained 2D Zr3C2T(z) and Ti3C2T(z) MXenes at elevated temperatures is performed. The obtained 2D Zr3C2T(z) exhibits relatively better ability to maintain 2D nature and strucural integrity compared to Ti-based Mxene. The difference in structural stability under high temperature condition is explained by a theoretical investigation on binding energy.

Keywords: carbides; layered structures; nanosheets; selective extraction; thermal stability.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't