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- Title
Effect of vacancies and edges in promoting water chemisorption on titanium-based MXenes.
- Authors
Marquis, Edoardo; Benini, Francesca; Anasori, Babak; Rosenkranz, Andreas; Righi, Maria Clelia
- Abstract
The functionality of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) in technological applications greatly depends on their wettability. For instance, MXenes' layer stability against degradative oxidation is notably reduced when stored in aqueous solutions, leading to the transformation into oxides. In this work, we study water adsorption on Ti-based MXenes by ab initio calculations. The energy gains for the molecular adsorption on Tin+1XnT2 is evaluated as a function of the termination (T = F, O, OH, mixture), the carbon/nitrogen ratio (X = C, N), the layer thickness (n) and water coverage. MXenes' hydrophilicity tends to increase due to the presence of defects as vacancies and flake edges. We demonstrate that physical adsorption occurs through hydrogen bonding on both defect-free layers and layers containing C/N or Ti atomic vacancies, with –OH terminations providing the strongest interactions (0.40–0.65 eV). In contrast, strong water chemisorption is observed on surfaces with a single termination vacancy (0.60–1.20 eV), edges (0.75–0.85 eV), and clusters of defects (1.00–1.80 eV). We verified that the presence of undercoordinated Ti atoms on the surface is the key factor in promoting H2O chemisorption, i.e., the degradative oxidation.
- Subjects
CHEMISORPTION; TRANSITION metal nitrides; PHYSISORPTION; TRANSITION metal carbides; NITRIDES; LEAD oxides
- Publication
Nano Convergence, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2196-5404
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40580-023-00364-8