Progress in application of Ti3C2Tx materials in sodium-ion batteries

Abstract

MXene has a wide application prospect in energy storage, electromagnetic interference shielding, catalysis, medicine and other fields due to its unique layered structure, high electronic conductivity and rich surface chemical properties.Ti3C2Tx, as the earliest discovered MXene material, has the possibility to achieve both high energy density and power density in the field of sodium ion batteries because of its inherent metal conductive characteristics, wide layer spacing and abundant surface functional groups, which is attracted by many researchers. Based on this, the research progress of Ti3C2Tx based materials in sodium ion batteries in recent years was reviewed in this paper. Firstly, the structure and electrochemical properties of Ti3C2Tx materials with multi-layer and few-layer were summarized by introducing the preparation of Ti3C2Tx. Then, combined with the application trend of the study, the influences of layer spacing modification, doping modification and morphology regulation on the sodium storage behavior of the two kinds of Ti3C2Tx materials were summarized. The structural design ideas of the two kinds of Ti3C2Tx based composites applied to the anode of the sodium ion battery were also analyzed. It was pointed out that the reasonable structural design is vital to the battery performance. Finally, some suggestions for the problems and challenges faced by Ti3C2Tx based composites in the field of sodium ion batteries were given.

Keywords

• two-dimensional material
• mxene
• ti3c2tx
• sodium-ion battery
• composites