2D metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) for energy storage

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Anasori, Babak ^a   Lukatskaya, Maria R ^a   Gogotsi, Yury ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

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AIR PURIFICATION; CARBIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING; ENERGY STORAGE; NITRIDES; PLASMONICS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES; SURFACE TERMINATION; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION METAL CARBIDE; VERSATILE CHEMISTRY; WATER PURIFICATION;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 85014081468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.98     Document Type: Review

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