But Soroush’s team needed to make a key adjustment to titanium carbide MXene’s chemical structure to further improve the material for one of its most challenging tasks.

These layers derive from the so-called MAX phase, with “M” representing a transition metal like titanium or chromium, “A” representing an element such as aluminum, and “X” standing for carbon or ...

A paper by scientists at Russia’s National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) and Rome’s Tor Vergata University has outlined how MXene, a two-dimensional titanium carbide, can ...

A thin coating of 2-D nanosheets has proved to be the most wear-resistant solid lubricant yet identified, according to researchers who put the titanium carbide–based material through its paces ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers explain that they achieved such result by infusing titanium carbide nanoparticles into AA 7075 welding wires, which are used as the ...

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