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A Freeze-and-Thaw-Assisted Approach to Fabricate MXene/ZIF-8 Composites for High-Performance Supercapacitors and Methylene Blue Adsorption

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Herein, an effective strategy was carried out to exfoliate multilayer-MXene via the gentle water freezing-and-thawing method. Following that, we designed and fabricated novel microporous Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks-8 (ZIF-8) type metal-organic frameworks hybrids incorporated with MXene by a facile layer-by-layer deposition approach which is highly desirable to overcome the severe restacking problem of MXene layers. As a supercapacitor electrode, the MXene/ZIF-8-4 composite achieved a high capacitance of 1279.5 F g −1 at 0.5 A g −1 . Moreover, the capacitance retention of MXene/ZIF-8-4 composite could maintain 90.88% after 10000 cycles at 5 A g −1 . Furthermore, asymmetrical supercapacitor has been fabricated using MXene/ZIF-8 composite as positive electrode and exhibit exceptional electrochemical performance. This device exhibits a large specific capacitance of 354.7 F g −1 at 0.5 A g −1 , and energy density of 57.84 Wh kg −1 at a power density of 0.628 kW kg −1 . In addition, MXene/ZIF-8 composites are transformed into different a loosely organized porous aerogel using freeze-drying process. As a result, the 3D porous MXene/ZIF-8 aerogels exhibit a high adsorption capacity of 459 mg g −1 to remove Methylene blue (MB).

Source: Journal of The Electrochemical Society

DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/aba934

Authors: Yue Li, Pascal Kamdem, Xiao-Juan Jin

Institutions: Beijing Forestry University, Michigan State University

Language: English

Topic: MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Affordable and clean energy

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Scholarship Council