{"id":220362,"date":"2025-08-18T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mxene-as-a-frame-for-2d-water-films-shows-new-properties"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:02:59","slug":"mxene-as-a-frame-for-2d-water-films-shows-new-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mxene-as-a-frame-for-2d-water-films-shows-new-properties","title":{"rendered":"MXene as a frame for 2D water films shows new properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mxene-as-a-frame-for-2d-water-films-shows-new-properties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water still has unknown sides. When water is forced into two dimensions by enclosing it in appropriate materials, new properties, phase transitions, and structures emerge. MXenes as a class of materials offer a unique platform for exploring these types of phenomena. MXenes consist of transition metal carbides and nitrides with a layered structure whose surfaces can help them absorb water easily. The water forms an extremely thin film between the individual layers.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Dr. Tristan Petit, HZB, and Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, has investigated a series of MXene samples containing enclosed water and different ions at BESSY II using various analytical methods. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62892-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>X-ray <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/structural+analysis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">structural analysis<\/a> revealed the formation of amorphous ice clusters in the enclosed water, which increases the distance between the MXene layers. The previously metallic MXene film then becomes a semiconductor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water still has unknown sides. When water is forced into two dimensions by enclosing it in appropriate materials, new properties, phase transitions, and structures emerge. MXenes as a class of materials offer a unique platform for exploring these types of phenomena. MXenes consist of transition metal carbides and nitrides with a layered structure whose surfaces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}