Effect of Ti3AlC2 precursor on the electrochemical properties of the resulting MXene Ti3C2 for Li-ion batteries

作者：Kong, Fanyu; He, Xiaodong; Liu, Qianqian; Qi, Xinxin; Zheng, Yongting; Wang, Rongguo; Bai, Yuelei^*

来源：Ceramics International, 2018, 44(10): 11591-11596.

DOI：10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.03.223

• Precursor
• MXene Ti3C2
• Electrochemical properties
• Li-ion batteries
• PITT

The presented work compared the etching behavior between combustion synthesized Ti3AlC2 (SHS-Ti3AlC2) and pressureless synthesized Ti3AlC2 (PLS-Ti(3)lC(2)). Because the former had a more compact structure, it was harder to be etched than PLS-Ti3AlC2 under the same conditions. When served as anode material for Li-ion batteries, SHS-Ti3C2 showed much lower capacity than PLS-Ti3C2 at 1 C (52.7 and 87.4 mAh g(-1), respectively) due to the smaller d-spacing. Furthermore, Potentiostatic Intermittent Titration Technique (PITT) was used to determine the Li-ion chemical diffusion coefficient (D-Li+) of Ti3C2 in the range of 10(-10) - 10(-9) cm(2) s(-1), indicating that Ti3C2 could exhibit an excellent diffusion mobility for Li-ion.

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  哈尔滨工业大学