Vial of layered carbide (IMAGE)
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Anupma Thakur, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Babak Anasori at Purdue University, holds a vial of layered carbide. Anasori's research group studies MXenes, which are 2D carbides and nitrides. Imagine materials like titanium carbide or tungsten carbide but in ultra-thin one-nanometer sheets, about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Every nanometer sheet is made of only a few layers of atoms. Their layered construction offers a combination of properties — such as high electrical conductivity, hydrophilicity (readily soluble), compositional tunability, and novel functionality — that make them ideal building blocks for a variety of uses in technology.
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