Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Laser-sculptured ultrathin transition metal carbide layers for energy storage and energy harvesting applications

  • Xining Zang,
  • Cuiying Jian,
  • Taishan Zhu,
  • Zheng Fan,
  • Wanlin Wang,
  • Minsong Wei,
  • Buxuan Li,
  • Mateo Follmar Diaz,
  • Paul Ashby,
  • Zhengmao Lu,
  • Yao Chu,
  • Zizhao Wang,
  • Xinrui Ding,
  • Yingxi Xie,
  • Juhong Chen,
  • J. Nathan Hohman,
  • Mohan Sanghadasa,
  • Jeffrey C. Grossman,
  • Liwei Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10999-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Transition metal carbides are attractive for electrochemical energy storage and catalysis, but cost effective preparation on a large scale is challenging. Here the authors use a direct pattern method to fabricate transition metal carbides for supercapacitors and solar energy harvesting for steam generation.