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Research Article | Open Access

Stabilising intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetic two-dimensional semimetallic Cr2CTx MXene by epitaxial self-intercalation of H2O-etched Cr2(AlLi)C

Xue Li1Zhenying Huang1,2( )Hongjie Wang1Wenqiang Hu1,2Weici Zhuang1Qun Yu1Youbo Wu1Qianwen Sun1Yang Zhou1Guangjin Chen1Junji Mou1Zhexuan Zhang1
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electronic Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Tangshan Research Institute of Beijing Jiaotong University, Tangshan 063000, China
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Physical properties, such as electrochemical and electromagnetic properties, of two-dimensional MXenes can be improved by enhancing their stability. However, MXenes fabricated via acid etching contain defects, which affect their physical properties. In this study, a method to effectively remove Al residues using only water during MXene fabrication while maintaining structural stability is proposed. The fabrication and intercalation of MXenes are controlled via epitaxial self-intercalation of H2O-etched Cr2(AlLi)C. On the basis of this mechanism, the room-temperature ferromagnetism of two-dimensional few-layered Cr2CTx MXenes, which has a specific saturation magnetization of ~0.26 emu/g and a Curie temperature of > 353 K, is experimentally verified. The calculated electronic band structure implies that the semimetal Cr2CTx MXene has a band gap of 0.75 eV. This study opens new possibilities for the research and applications of industrial-scale manufacturing of MXenes and 2D semiconductors.

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Journal of Advanced Ceramics
Pages 1546-1552
Cite this article:
Li X, Huang Z, Wang H, et al. Stabilising intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetic two-dimensional semimetallic Cr2CTx MXene by epitaxial self-intercalation of H2O-etched Cr2(AlLi)C. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2024, 13(10): 1546-1552. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2024.9220955

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Received: 01 May 2024
Revised: 06 August 2024
Accepted: 08 August 2024
Published: 04 September 2024
© The Author(s) 2024.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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