Liquid‐phase exfoliation of nonlayered non‐van‐der‐waals crystals into nanoplatelets

H Kaur, JN Coleman - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For nearly 15 years, researchers have been using liquid‐phase exfoliation (LPE) to produce
2D nanosheets from layered crystals. This has yielded multiple 2D materials in a solution …

Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications

AP Balan, AB Puthirath, S Roy, G Costin, EF Oliveira… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The discovery of novel materials that are stable at ambient conditions with emergent
functionalities is a pressing need of the 21st century to keep the pace of social and …

Synthesis, properties, and applications of MBenes (two-dimensional metal borides) as emerging 2D materials: a review

A Sharma, VS Rangra, A Thakur - Journal of Materials Science, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials like conventional graphene, hexagonal boron
nitride (h-BN, monolayer), and transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) have gotten a …

2D metal borides (MBenes): Synthesis methods for energy storage applications

AJ Khan, SS Shah, S Khan, A Mateen, B Iqbal… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are being widely discussed because they have
huge potential for use. Of these, 2D transition metal borides, known as MBenes, are the …

Data-driven quest for two-dimensional non-van der Waals materials

R Friedrich, M Ghorbani-Asl, S Curtarolo… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are frequently associated with the sheets forming bulk
layered compounds bonded by van der Waals (vdW) forces. The anisotropy and weak …

Curbing pollutant CO2 by using two-dimensional MXenes and MBenes

M Ozkan, KAM Quiros, JM Watkins, TM Nelson… - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
Nearly 85% of current human-caused CO 2 emissions result from the burning of fossil fuels,
including coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon pollution warms the planet and increases …

Progress, challenges, and opportunities in the synthesis, characterization, and application of metal-boride-derived two-dimensional nanostructures

H Gunda, LE Klebanoff, PA Sharma… - ACS Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) metal-boride-derived nanostructures have been a focus of intense
research for the past decade, with an emphasis on new synthetic approaches, as well as on …

Ultrathin MgB2 nanosheet-modified polypropylene separator for high-efficiency lithium-sulfur batteries

YC Zhang, YW Li, C Han, Y Qin, J Zhang, J Wu… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The separator is an important component in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. However, the
conventional polypropylene (PP) separators have the problem of easy shuttling of lithium …

Large-Scale Synthesis of Electrochemically Active Titanium Diboride-Based Nanosheets by High-Energy Ball Milling

B Gaykwad, A Thakur, A Buch… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
AlB2-type layered metal diborides have sought renewed research attention in recent years
on account of their ability to yield XBenes─ their quasi-two-dimensional (2D) counterparts …

Plasmon coupling inside 2D-like TiB2 flakes for water splitting half reactions enhancement in acidic and alkaline conditions

A Zabelina, E Miliutina, D Zabelin, V Burtsev… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hybridization of catalytic and plasmon active materials provides an elegant way for
efficiently improving of photo-electrochemical (PEC) water splitting. In this work, we propose …