Gas-phase synthesis of Ti2CCl2 enables an efficient catalyst for lithium-sulfur batteries

Maoqiao Xiang; Zihan Shen; Jie Zheng; Miao Song; Qiya He; Yafeng Yang; Jiuyi Zhu; Yuqi Geng; Fen Yue; Qinghua Dong; Yu Ge; Rui Wang; Jiake Wei; Weiliang Wang; Haiming Huang; Huigang Zhang; Qingshan Zhu; Chuanfang John Zhang

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Gas-phase synthesis of Ti₂CCl₂ enables an efficient catalyst for lithium-sulfur batteries

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State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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School of Chemical Engineering, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Innovation Academy for Green Manufacture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., 117 West Third Ring Road, North Section, Beijing 100840, China
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College of Materials Science & Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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School of Physics, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, Center for Neutron Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Solid State Physics & Material Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Materials Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Corresponding authors: hgzhang@ipe.ac.cn (H.Z.); qszhu@ipe.ac.cn (Q.Z.)
Received Date: August 19, 2023

Accepted Date: November 16, 2023

Published Online: November 19, 2023

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1. ■ A scalable gas-phase technology has been developed for the synthesis of MXenes.
2. ■ In-depth mechanistic analysis deciphers the origin of the formation of Ti₂CCl₂.
3. ■ Ti₂CCl₂ MXene has low vacancies and excellent metallic conductivity.
4. ■ Ti₂CCl₂ MXene dramatically prolongs the cyclability of Li-S batteries.
5. ■ The strategy pushes MXenes from laboratory to industrial applications.

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MXenes have aroused intensive enthusiasm because of their exotic properties and promising applications. However, to date, they are usually synthesized by etching technologies. Developing synthetic technologies provides more opportunities for innovation and may extend unexplored applications. Here, we report a bottom-up gas-phase synthesis of Cl-terminated MXene (Ti₂CCl₂). The gas-phase synthesis endows Ti₂CCl₂ with unique surface chemistry, high phase purity, and excellent metallic conductivity, which can be used to accelerate polysulfide conversion kinetics and dramatically prolong the cyclability of Li-S batteries. In-depth mechanistic analysis deciphers the origin of the formation of Ti₂CCl₂ and offers a paradigm for tuning MXene chemical vapor deposition. Inbrief, the gas-phase synthesis transforms the synthesis of MXenes and unlocks the hardly achieved potentials of MXenes.

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Maoqiao Xiang, Zihan Shen, Jie Zheng, Miao Song, Qiya He, Yafeng Yang, Jiuyi Zhu, Yuqi Geng, Fen Yue, Qinghua Dong, Yu Ge, Rui Wang, Jiake Wei, Weiliang Wang, Haiming Huang, Huigang Zhang, Qingshan Zhu, Chuanfang John Zhang. Gas-phase synthesis of Ti₂CCl₂ enables an efficient catalyst for lithium-sulfur batteries[J]. The Innovation, 2024, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100540

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