{"id":227444,"date":"2025-12-19T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/research-reinvents-mxene-synthesis-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:38:10","slug":"research-reinvents-mxene-synthesis-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/research-reinvents-mxene-synthesis-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost","title":{"rendered":"Research reinvents MXene synthesis at a fraction of the cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-reinvents-mxene-synthesis-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MXenes (pronounced like the name \u201cMaxine\u201d) are a class of two-dimensional materials, first identified just 14 years ago, with remarkable potential for energy storage, catalysts, ultrastrong lightweight composites, and a variety of other purposes ranging from electromagnetic shielding to ink that can carry a current.<\/p>\n<p>But manufacturing MXenes has been expensive, difficult and crude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMXenes have been made by a very elaborate, multi-step process that involved days of high-temperature work, followed by using dangerous chemicals like hydrofluoric acid and creating a lot of waste,\u201d said Prof. Dmitri Talapin of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Department of Chemistry. \u201cThat may have been okay for early-stage research and lab exploration, but became a big roadblock for taking the next step to large-scale applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MXenes (pronounced like the name \u201cMaxine\u201d) are a class of two-dimensional materials, first identified just 14 years ago, with remarkable potential for energy storage, catalysts, ultrastrong lightweight composites, and a variety of other purposes ranging from electromagnetic shielding to ink that can carry a current. But manufacturing MXenes has been expensive, difficult and crude. \u201cMXenes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227444","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}