Ink-processable stable dispersions and tunable hybrid materials from Ti3C2Tx MXenes: How MXenes can benefit from concepts familiar to colloidal chemists

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a) Photographs showing a stable dispersion of OAm stabilized MXenes in chloroform before (left) and after (right) the addition of DAs. b) Sketch depicting the expected nanostructure of the material, i.e., dispersed, OAm-stabilized MXene flakes (left) and stacks of DA cross-linked MXene flakes (right).

In their latest article, our Principal Investigator Dr. Hendrik Schlicke (SchlickeLab, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden — IPF) and his colleagues demonstrate how MXenes can benefit from concepts familiar to colloidal chemists: By employing ligand functionalization and molecular cross-linking they created ink-processable stable dispersions and tunable hybrid materials from Ti3C2Tx MXenes, which show promising properties for electronics and sensing applications.

The article was just published in Advanced Functional Materials.

Article: Molecular Cross-linking of MXenes: Tunable Interfaces and Chemiresistive Sensing

Authors: Yudhajit Bhattacharjee, Lukas Mielke, Mahmoud Al-Hussein, Shivam Singh, Karen Schaefer, Borja Rodríguez-Barea, Qiong Li, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Artur Erbe, Carmen Herrmann, Yana Vaynzof, Andreas Fery, Hendrik Schlicke

Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202518884 (open access)

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