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    Tough and Fatigue Resistant Cellulose Nanocrystal Stitched Ti3C2Tx MXene Films

    Year: 2022

    Journal: Macromol. Rapid Commun., Volume 43, JUN

    Authors: Usman, Ken Aldren S.; Bacal, Christine Jurene O.; Zhang, Jizhen; Qin, Si; Lynch, Peter A.; Mota-Santiago, Pablo; Naebe, Minoo; Henderson, Luke C.; Hegh, Dylan Y.; Razal, Joselito M.

    Organizations: Australian Research Council [FT130100380, IH140100018, DP180100094]; Deakin University (Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme)

    Keywords: cellulose nanocrystals; MXenes; SAXS; WAXS; sequential bridging; tough films

    Ti3C2Tx MXene (or MXene for simplicity) has gained noteworthy attention for its metal-like electrical conductivity and high electrochemical capacitance-a unique blend of properties attractive toward a wide range of applications such as energy storage, healthcare monitoring, and electromagnetic interference shielding. However, processing MXene architectures using conventional methods often deals with the presence of defects, voids, and isotropic flake arrangements, resulting in a trade-off in properties. Here, a sequential bridging (SB) strategy is reported to fabricate dense, freestanding MXene films of interconnected flakes with minimal defects, significantly enhancing its mechanical properties, specifically tensile strength (approximate to 285 MPa) and breaking energy (approximate to 16.1 MJ m(-3)), while retaining substantial values of electrical conductivity (approximate to 3050 S cm(-1)) and electrochemical capacitance (approximate to 920 F cm(-3)). This SB method first involves forming a cellulose nanocrystal-stitched MXene framework, followed by infiltration with structure-densifying calcium cations (Ca2+), resulting in tough and fatigue resistant films with anisotropic, evenly spaced, and strongly interconnected flakes - properties essential for developing high-performance energy-storage devices. It is anticipated that the knowledge gained in this work will be extended toward improving the robustness and retaining the electronic properties of 2D nanomaterial-based macroarchitectures.
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