Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications
Abstract
Ultrathin transition metal carbides with high capacity, high surface area, and high conductivity are a promising family of materials for applications from energy storage to catalysis. However, large-scale, cost-effective, and precursor-free methods to prepare ultrathin carbides are lacking. Here, we demonstrate a direct pattern method to manufacture ultrathin carbides (MoCx, WCx, and CoCx) on versatile substrates using a CO2 laser. The laser-sculptured polycrystalline carbides (macroporous, ~10-20 nm wall thickness, ~10 nm crystallinity) show high energy storage capability, hierarchical porous structure, and higher thermal resilience than MXenes and other laser-ablated carbon materials. A flexible supercapacitor made of MoCx demonstrates a wide temperature range (-50 to 300 °C). Furthermore, the sculptured microstructures endow the carbide network with enhanced visible light absorption, providing high solar energy harvesting efficiency (~72%) for steam generation. The laser-based, scalable, resilient, and low-cost manufacturing process presents an approach for construction of carbides and their subsequent applications.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
- Shenzhen Univ. (China)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- D-MAVT, ETHZ, Zürich (Switzerland)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Aviation and Missile Center, Redstone Arsenal, AL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1559234
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Zang, Xining, Jian, Cuiying, Zhu, Taishan, Fan, Zheng, Wang, Wanlin, Wei, Minsong, Li, Buxuan, Follmar Diaz, Mateo, Ashby, Paul, Lu, Zhengmao, Chu, Yao, Wang, Zizhao, Ding, Xinrui, Xie, Yingxi, Chen, Juhong, Hohman, J. Nathan, Sanghadasa, Mohan, Grossman, Jeffrey C., and Lin, Liwei. Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z.
Zang, Xining, Jian, Cuiying, Zhu, Taishan, Fan, Zheng, Wang, Wanlin, Wei, Minsong, Li, Buxuan, Follmar Diaz, Mateo, Ashby, Paul, Lu, Zhengmao, Chu, Yao, Wang, Zizhao, Ding, Xinrui, Xie, Yingxi, Chen, Juhong, Hohman, J. Nathan, Sanghadasa, Mohan, Grossman, Jeffrey C., & Lin, Liwei. Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z
Zang, Xining, Jian, Cuiying, Zhu, Taishan, Fan, Zheng, Wang, Wanlin, Wei, Minsong, Li, Buxuan, Follmar Diaz, Mateo, Ashby, Paul, Lu, Zhengmao, Chu, Yao, Wang, Zizhao, Ding, Xinrui, Xie, Yingxi, Chen, Juhong, Hohman, J. Nathan, Sanghadasa, Mohan, Grossman, Jeffrey C., and Lin, Liwei. Mon .
"Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1559234.
@article{osti_1559234,
title = {Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications},
author = {Zang, Xining and Jian, Cuiying and Zhu, Taishan and Fan, Zheng and Wang, Wanlin and Wei, Minsong and Li, Buxuan and Follmar Diaz, Mateo and Ashby, Paul and Lu, Zhengmao and Chu, Yao and Wang, Zizhao and Ding, Xinrui and Xie, Yingxi and Chen, Juhong and Hohman, J. Nathan and Sanghadasa, Mohan and Grossman, Jeffrey C. and Lin, Liwei},
abstractNote = {Ultrathin transition metal carbides with high capacity, high surface area, and high conductivity are a promising family of materials for applications from energy storage to catalysis. However, large-scale, cost-effective, and precursor-free methods to prepare ultrathin carbides are lacking. Here, we demonstrate a direct pattern method to manufacture ultrathin carbides (MoCx, WCx, and CoCx) on versatile substrates using a CO2 laser. The laser-sculptured polycrystalline carbides (macroporous, ~10-20 nm wall thickness, ~10 nm crystallinity) show high energy storage capability, hierarchical porous structure, and higher thermal resilience than MXenes and other laser-ablated carbon materials. A flexible supercapacitor made of MoCx demonstrates a wide temperature range (-50 to 300 °C). Furthermore, the sculptured microstructures endow the carbide network with enhanced visible light absorption, providing high solar energy harvesting efficiency (~72%) for steam generation. The laser-based, scalable, resilient, and low-cost manufacturing process presents an approach for construction of carbides and their subsequent applications.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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