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Challenges and Future Perspectives of Mxenes

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Handbook of Functionalized Nanostructured MXenes

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Two-dimensional materials are gaining huge attention towards technological applications owing to their unique properties. A broad spectrum of two-dimensional materials, i.e. nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides of low valent early transition metals, is known as MXene. It emerges as new material in the era between 2010 and 2011 (over 10 years ago). Owing to their tremendous characteristics like ease of functionalization, activated metallic hydroxide sites, high metallic conductivity, hydrophilicity, and high surface area make them attractive for many applications from energy storage to nanomedicine. Despite several studies reporting about the various applications of MXene, still various technological challenges including synthesis route, large-scale production, aggregation and storage, potential toxic effects, thermal and oxidative stability, environmental and biotechnological applications need to be focused to get the complete benefits of this fantastic material. As concern with future perspective, with growing research in this field along with the technological advancement, theoretical and experimental strategies are needed to make better use of MXene materials. It is expected that existing hurdles in MXene-related research will be overawed to pacify the related breakthrough in coming decades.

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  1. Institute of Polymer & Textile Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Nafisa Gull, Atif Islam, Abdul Mannan, Tabinda Riaz & Shahzad Maqsood Khan

  2. School of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Asma Khalid

  3. Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Rafi Ullah Khan

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Gull, N. et al. (2023). Challenges and Future Perspectives of Mxenes. In: Rizwan, K., Khan, A., Ahmed Asiri, A.M. (eds) Handbook of Functionalized Nanostructured MXenes. Smart Nanomaterials Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2038-9_22

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