Recent Progress and New Horizons in Emerging Novel MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications for Current Environmental Remediation and Energy Crises

Karim Khan; Ayesha Khan Tareen; Muhammad Iqbal; Ye Zhang; Asif Mahmood; Nasir mahmood; Zhe Shi; Chunyang Ma; J. R. Rosin; Han Zhang

doi:10.1007/s41918-024-00224-x

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2024, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (1) DOI: 10.1007/s41918-024-00224-x

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Recent Progress and New Horizons in Emerging Novel MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications for Current Environmental Remediation and Energy Crises

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¹Additive Manufacturing Institute, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

²School of Mechanical Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, 523808, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

³Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Engineering, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

⁴Department of Bio-Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan

⁵School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, 421001, Hengyang, Hunan, China

⁶School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

⁷School of Science, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

⁸Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

^a karim_khan_niazi@yahoo.com

^k hzhang@szu.edu.cn

Karim Khan

was born in Paharpur, Dera-Ismail-Khan, K.P.K., Pakistan. He received his B.Sc. degree (2005) from Gomal University, M.Sc. (2009) degree in physics from the University of Peshawar, M. Phil (2012) degree in solid state physics, from the University of the Punjab, Pakistan, and did research in the “National Centre for Physics”, Quaid-e-Azim University, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree (2016) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and he also served as Postdoctoral fellow (2017–2019), in Shenzhen university, China. To date, he has over 80 scientific publications and two patents. His current research focuses on 2D electrocatalyst materials and their applications in energy producing/storage/saving devices as well as developing sensors for biomedical application. In the past five years, Dr. Karim Khan published different research manuscripts in different journals, including Nano Today, Advanced Materials, Small, JMCA, Nano-Micro letters, JMCC, Progress in Solid State Chemistry, etc., with total citations of all his publications ~ 3 000 times, with H-index 24.

Ayesha Khan Tareen

is at present a Post-Doctoral fellow in Shenzhen university. She received her Ph.D. degree (physical chemistry/materials) in 2018 from the Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), M. Phil degree (analytical chemistry) in 2015 from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur and B. SC degree (chemistry) in 2012 from Government College University Lahore. Her Research interests are in magnetic/superconductivity and transition metal nitride, 2D material synthesis and applications (biomedical sensors, photocatalysts, fuel cells, dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)).

Muhammad Iqbal

is recently a master student in the Department of Bio-Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, and he published 15 articles with total citations of about 200 and H-index 17.

Ye Zhang

is professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, and published 64 article with citation of 3 749 and h-index 24.

Asif Mahmood

is researcher in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and he published 106 articles with total number of citations 10 482 and H-index of about 45.

Nasir mahmood

is working in the School of Science, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. he published about 191 articles with 14852 citations and 45 H-index.

Zhe Shi

is professor in Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Chunyang Ma

J. R. Rosine

is researcher in Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China and published almost 100 articles with a total number of citations about 4 000 and H-index about 37.

Han Zhang

received his B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2006 and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2010. He is currently a director of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of 2D-materials and Devices, and the Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University. His current research focuses on the ultrafast and nonlinear photonics of 2D materials. He is also the Highly Cited Researchers of the Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019. He was awarded the Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2019. In the past five years, Prof. Han Zhang's group published more than 400 papers, including Physics Reports, PNAS, Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Comm., Adv. Mater., etc. The total citations of all his publications are more than 69 000 times, and his H-index is 129.

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Unsustainable fossil fuel energy usage and its environmental impacts are the most significant scientific challenges in the scientific community. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received a lot of attention recently because of their great potential for application in addressing some of society’s most enduring issues with renewable energy. Transition metal-based nitrides, carbides, or carbonitrides, known as “MXenes”, are a relatively new and large family of 2D materials. Since the discovery of the first MXene, Ti₃C₂ in 2011 has become one of the fastest-expanding families of 2D materials with unique physiochemical features. MXene surface terminations with hydroxyl, oxygen, fluorine, etc., are invariably present in the so far reported materials, imparting hydrophilicity to their surfaces. The current finding of multi-transition metal-layered MXenes with controlled surface termination capacity opens the door to fabricating unique structures for producing renewable energy. MXene NMs-based flexible chemistry allows them to be tuned for energy-producing/storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, gas/biosensors, water distillation, nanocomposite reinforcement, lubrication, and photo/electro/chemical catalysis. This review will first discuss the advancement of MXenes synthesis methods, their properties/stability, and renewable energy applications. Secondly, we will highlight the constraints and challenges that impede the scientific community from synthesizing functional MXene with controlled composition and properties. We will further reveal the high-tech implementations for renewable energy storage applications along with future challenges and their solutions.

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Karim Khan, Ayesha Khan Tareen, Muhammad Iqbal, Ye Zhang, Asif Mahmood, Nasir mahmood, Zhe Shi, Chunyang Ma, J. R. Rosin, Han Zhang. Recent Progress and New Horizons in Emerging Novel MXene-Based Materials for Energy Storage Applications for Current Environmental Remediation and Energy Crises. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2024, 7(1): DOI:10.1007/s41918-024-00224-x