Improvement of Synthesis Parameters of Two-Dimensional MXene Ti3C2TX Nanoparticles Using Combined Mechanical and Chemical Mill

Zabihi, Faezeh; Hosseini, Seyed Iman; Rezakazemi, Mashallah

Improvement of Synthesis Parameters of Two-Dimensional MXene Ti3C2TX Nanoparticles Using Combined Mechanical and Chemical Mill

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Faezeh Zabihi ¹

Seyed Iman Hosseini ¹

Mashallah Rezakazemi ²

¹ Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of technology, Shahrood 3619995161, Iran

² Faculty of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood 3619995161, Iran

Abstract

In this paper, Ti₃C₂T_X (Mxene) was produced using 40% hydrofluoric acid (HF) from a precursor of Ti₃AlC₂. The Ti₃AlC₂ Max phase was synthesized by the mechanical method and then placed in a high-temperature furnace. To this aim, titanium carbide (TiC), titanium (Ti) and aluminum (Al) with atomic ratio of 2:1:1 were used due to the low heat capacity to increase the purity of Ti₃AlC₂. The parameter of different hours of ball milling was studied. To investigate the effect of different milling time on Ti₃AlC₂, and synthesis of Ti₃C₂T_X, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, were used. The results showed that changing the milling time significantly affected the synthesis quality of the Ti₃AlC₂ sample. After 9 h milling, the particle size was < 38 μm and in the X-ray diffraction spectrum, all the peaks of the sample were formed according to its standard pattern, and the peak (002) is located at 2𝜃 = 9.14 degrees, which is the main peak indicates the best quality of Ti₃AlC₂. Also, the structural and morphological analysis results showed that Ti₃C₂T_X MXene was produced in an entirely layered structure, and due to etching, the interlayer distance increased from 0.968nm to 1.019nm. It can be expressed that due to the change of 2𝜃 = 9.14 for the Ti3AlC2 to 2𝜃 = 8.67 for the Ti₃C₂T_X MXene was synthesized with good quality.

Keywords

MAX

Ti3AlC2

MXene

Ti3C2TX

planetary ball milling

Mechano-chemical synthesis method

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