Magnetocaloric effect: From materials research to refrigeration devices

V Franco, JS Blázquez, JJ Ipus, JY Law… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

MBenes: progress, challenges and future

B Zhang, J Zhou, Z Sun - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The prevalence of MXenes, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides/nitrides
separated from layered MAX phases, has generated much interest in exploring 2D transition …

A rising 2D star: novel MBenes with excellent performance in energy conversion and storage

T Xu, Y Wang, Z Xiong, Y Wang, Y Zhou, X Li - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
As a flourishing member of the two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial family, MXenes have
shown great potential in various research areas. In recent years, the continued growth of …

Establishing a theoretical landscape for identifying basal plane active 2D metal borides (MBenes) toward nitrogen electroreduction

X Guo, S Lin, J Gu, S Zhang, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To achieve efficient ammonia synthesis via electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction
(NRR), a qualified catalyst should have both high specific activity and large active surface …

New two-dimensional transition metal borides for Li ion batteries and electrocatalysis

Z Guo, J Zhou, Z Sun - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Exploring new two-dimensional (2D) crystals attracts great interest in the materials
community due to their potential intriguing properties. Here, we report a new family of 2D …

Novel 2D MBenes—synthesis, structure, and biotechnological potential

M Jakubczak, A Szuplewska… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D transition metal borides (MBenes) have emerged as promising post‐MXene
materials with potential application in various biotechnological fields. Although they possess …

A progress report on the MAB phases: atomically laminated, ternary transition metal borides

S Kota, M Sokol, MW Barsoum - International Materials …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The MAB phases are atomically layered, ternary or quaternary transition metal (M) borides
(TMBs), with the general formula (MB) 2 z A x (MB2) y (z= 1–2; x= 1–2; y= 0–2), whose …

Ternary Borides Cr2AlB2, Cr3AlB4, and Cr4AlB6: The First Members of the Series (CrB2)nCrAl with n = 1, 2, 3 and a Unifying Concept for Ternary Borides …

M Ade, H Hillebrecht - Inorganic chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Single crystals of the ternary borides Cr2AlB2, Cr3AlB4, Cr4AlB6, MoAlB, WAlB, Mn2AlB2,
and Fe2AlB2 were grown from the elements with an excess of Al. Structures were refined by …

MBene (MnB): a new type of 2D metallic ferromagnet with high Curie temperature

Z Jiang, P Wang, X Jiang, J Zhao - Nanoscale horizons, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We extend the 2D MXene family into the boride world, namely, MBenes. High-throughput
calculations screen twelve MBenes with excellent stability. Among them, 2D MnB MBene …

Synthesis and characterization of an alumina forming nanolaminated boride: MoAlB

S Kota, E Zapata-Solvas, A Ly, J Lu, O Elkassabany… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The 'MAlB'phases are nanolaminated, ternary transition metal borides that consist of a
transition metal boride sublattice interleaved by monolayers or bilayers of pure aluminum …