Aerosol Jet Printing of Hybrid Ti3C2T x /C Nanospheres for Planar Micro-supercapacitors

Yu Wu; Aiping Lin; Jidi Zhang; Danjiao Zhao; Lanlan Fan; Cheng Lu; Shufen Wang; Lei Cao; Feng Gu

doi:10.3389/fchem.2022.933319

Aerosol Jet Printing of Hybrid Ti₃C₂T _x /C Nanospheres for Planar Micro-supercapacitors

Front Chem. 2022 Jul 8:10:933319. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.933319. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yu Wu¹, Aiping Lin¹, Jidi Zhang², Danjiao Zhao¹, Lanlan Fan¹, Cheng Lu², Shufen Wang¹, Lei Cao¹, Feng Gu^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Advanced Materials & Manufacturing (LAMM), International Institute for Innovation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, China.
² Institute for Process Modelling and Optimization, Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, Suzhou, China.
³ School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

When utilized in energy devices, the restacking tendency of MXene Ti₃C₂T _x inhibits its electrochemical performance. Using aerosol jet printing (AJP) technology, hybrid Ti₃C₂T _x /C nanospheres are synthesized with C nanoparticle-bonded MXene nanosheets, and the restacking of MXene nanosheets is blocked efficiently. The formation mechanism for hybrid Ti₃C₂T _x /C nanospheres has been hypothesized, and the Ti₃C₂T _x /C is anticipated to assemble and shape along the droplet surface in tandem with the Marangoni flow within the droplet. The planar microsupercapacitor devices generated from these hybrid spherical nanostructures with increased interlayer spacing exhibit exceptional areal capacitance performance. This concept offers a straightforward and effective method for constructing 3D-structured MXene with suppressed self-stacking for diverse high-performance micro energy storage devices.

Keywords: MXene; aerosol jet printing; hybrid structure; nanosphere; restacking behavior.