A synergetic stabilization and strengthening strategy for two-dimensional ordered hybrid transition metal carbides
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27740%2F18%3A10242320" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27740/18:10242320 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989100:27640/18:10240141 RIV/61989100:27740/18:10240141
Result on the web
<a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/CP/C8CP06458J#!divAbstract" target="_blank" >https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/CP/C8CP06458J#!divAbstract</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8cp06458j" target="_blank" >10.1039/c8cp06458j</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A synergetic stabilization and strengthening strategy for two-dimensional ordered hybrid transition metal carbides
Original language description
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides (MXenes) exhibit excellent thermodynamic stability and remarkable mechanical strength and flexibility, as well as rich functionality, which attract considerable interest due to their potential application for high-performance flexible and stretchable devices. However, premature phonon instability of some non-hybrid MXenes was recently found to intrinsically limit their strength and flexibility, evoking passionate curiosity in pursuing an effective solution for more impressive mechanical properties. In this work, on the basis of an alloying strengthening mechanism, a combinational strategy is proposed to build ordered hybrid M2''M'C2O2 (M'' = Mo, W; M' = Ti, Zr, Hf) with remarkable dynamic stability and superior mechanical properties by hindering the premature phonon instability originating from the outer transition metals. By means of comprehensive screening, symmetrical-Mo2TiC2O2 is interestingly found to possess excellent stability at equilibrium and outstanding tolerance to phonon instability during straining compared to its Ti counterpart, being attributed to the character of the robust Mo-dz2 and O-pz hybridization. Although similar optical phonon soft modes appear in Ti3C2O2 and Mo2TiC2O2 under multiple loadings, the latter is much stiffer during straining. An in-depth analysis of deformed electronic structures reveals that a strain-induced increasing density of states in the vicinity of the Fermi level mainly composed of Mo-dz2 states facilitates the fatal phonon softening in Mo2TiC2O2 under biaxial tension, while differing from the mechanical instability in Ti3C2O2 triggered by a Peierls transition. Our findings provide a novel stabilization and strengthening strategy for 2D materials, and pave a new way for searching for 2D material candidates in designing flexible devices. (C) 2018 the Owner Societies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-27790S" target="_blank" >GA17-27790S: Novel fuel materials for the IVth generation nuclear reactors</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
ISSN
1463-9076
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
47
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
29684-29692
UT code for WoS article
000452484800008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85058173766