MXBatt Will be At DeeCyDa Spring Camp

MXBatt will be at DeeCyDa School (Irvine, CA) to educate elementary students over the Spring break. MXBatt inviting children to explore their interests in STEAM and having fun using a 3D printer. Hands-on classes with topic in Math, Science, Art, and much more.

DeeCyDa Spring camp is one of the best camps for children ages 7-12 years old. Spring camp is from April 4th through 8th.

3D Printed MXene Aerogels with Truly 3D Macrostructure and Highly Engineered Microstructure for Enhanced Electrical and Electrochemical Performance

Halil Tetik,Jafar Orangi,Guang Yang,Keren Zhao, Majid Beidaghi

Assembling 2D materials such as MXenes into functional 3D aerogels using 3D printing technologies gains attention due to simplicity of fabrication, customized geometry and physical properties, and improved performance. Also, the establishment of straightforward electrode fabrication methods with the aim to hinder the restack and/or aggregation of electrode materials, which limits the performance of the electrode, is of great significant. In this study, unidirectional freeze casting and inkjet-based 3D printing are combined to fabricate macroscopic porous aerogels with vertically aligned Ti3C2Tx sheets. The fabrication method is developed to easily control the aerogel microstructure and alignment of the MXene sheets. The aerogels show excellent electromechanical performance so that they can withstand almost 50% compression before recovering to the original shape and maintain their electrical conductivities during continuous compression cycles. To enhance the electrochemical performance, an inkjet-printed MXene current collector layer is added with horizontally aligned MXene sheets. This combines the superior electrical conductivity of the current collector layer with the improved ionic diffusion provided by the porous electrode. The cells fabricated with horizontal MXene sheets alignment as current collector with subsequent vertical MXene sheets alignment layers show the best electrochemical performance with thickness-independent capacitive behavior.

3D Printed MXene Aerogels with Truly 3D Macrostructure and Highly Engineered Microstructure for Enhanced Electrical and Electrochemical Performance – Tetik – 2022 – Advanced Materials – Wiley Online Library

3d printing of additive-free mxene ink for fabrication of micro-supercapacitors with ultra-high energy densities

Majid Beidaghi, Jafar Orangi, Virginia A. Davis, Fatima A. HAMADE

The disclosure provides ink compositions that comprise a 2D material and a solvent and the method to fabricate such compositions. The disclosure also provides the composition and method of fabricating 3D MSCs comprising such ink compositions. Additionally, the disclosure provides a conducting material comprising a battery composition, a 2D material, and a solvent that results in the formation of a composition that may be used for 3D printing of batteries.
 

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210115284A1/en

Conductive and highly compressible MXene aerogels with ordered microstructures as high-capacity electrodes for Li-ion capacitors

J Orangi, H Tetik, P Parandoush, E Kayali, D Lin, M Beidaghi

Assembling two-dimensional (2D) materials into functional three-dimensional (3D) structures can enable their use in a wide variety of applications. For energy storage devices, 3D electrodes with high ionic and electronic transport properties and decent mechanical properties are expected to prompt the fabrication of the next generations of devices with high energy and power densities. Herein, we report a simple, efficient, and scalable process based on unidirectional freeze casting to fabricate ordered and porous 3D aerogels from 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene flakes. The fabricated aerogels show excellent mechanical, electrical, and electrochemical properties. Our studies show that the processing conditions significantly affect the properties of MXene aerogels. The electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of fabricated aerogels directly correlate with their structural features. The mechanical test results showed that MXene aerogels with ordered structures could withstand almost 50% of strain before recovering to their original shape and maintain their electrical conductivities during continuous compressive cycling. As electrode materials for lithium-ion capacitors, the fabricated aerogels delivered a significantly high specific capacity (~1210 mAh/g at 0.05 A/g), excellent rate capability (~200 mAh/g at 10 A/g), and outstanding cycling performance. We believe that the MXene aerogels with ordered structures have promising properties for a broad range of applications, including energy storage devices and strain sensors.

Conductive and highly compressible MXene aerogels with ordered microstructures as high-capacity electrodes for Li-ion capacitors – ScienceDirect

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3D Printing of Additive-Free 2D Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Ink for Fabrication of Micro-Supercapacitors with Ultra-High Energy Densities

Jafar Orangi, Fatima Hamade, Virginia A. Davis, and Majid Beidaghi

Recent advances in the development of self-powered devices and miniaturized electronics have increased the demand for on-chip energy storage devices that can deliver high power and energy densities in a limited footprint area. Here, we report the fabrication of all-solid-state micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) through a three-dimensional (3D) printing of additive-free and water-based MXene ink. The fabricated MSCs benefit from the high electrical conductivity and excellent electrochemical properties of two-dimensional (2D) Ti3C2Tx MXene and a 3D interdigital electrode architecture to deliver high areal and volumetric energy densities. We demonstrate that a highly concentrated MXene ink shows desirable viscoelastic properties for extrusion printing at room temperature and therefore can be used for scalable fabrication of MSCs with various architectures and electrode thicknesses on a variety of substrates. The developed printing process can be readily used for the fabrication of flexible MSCs on polymer and paper substrates. The printed solid-state devices show exceptional electrochemical performance with very high areal capacitance of up to ∼1035 mF cm–2. Our study introduces Ti3C2Tx MXene as an excellent choice of electrode material for the fabrication of 3D MSCs and demonstrates 3D printing of MXene inks at room temperature.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.9b07325#