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Inside Cover: Room‐Temperature Carbide‐Derived Carbon Synthesis by Electrochemical Etching of MAX Phases (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 19/2014)
Author(s) -
Lukatskaya Maria R.,
Halim Joseph,
Dyatkin Boris,
Naguib Michael,
Buranova Yulia S.,
Barsoum Michel W.,
Gogotsi Yury
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201403559
Subject(s) - supercapacitor , materials science , carbide , carbon fibers , ternary operation , amorphous solid , electrochemistry , etching (microfabrication) , cover (algebra) , electrode , battery (electricity) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , metallurgy , composite material , crystallography , chemistry , mechanical engineering , layer (electronics) , computer science , thermodynamics , power (physics) , physics , composite number , engineering , programming language
The electrochemically induced extraction of metal atoms from the ternary layered carbides Ti 3 AlC 2 , Ti 2 AlC, and Ti 3 SiC 2 (MAX phases) at room temperature results in predominantly amorphous carbon with a narrow distribution of micropores, as described by Y. Gogotsi et al. in their Communication on page 4877 ff. This approach forgoes energy‐intensive thermal processing and presents a novel method for the synthesis of carbon materials that may be used as supercapacitors, battery electrodes, or for CO 2 capture.