Abstract
It is widely known that the special performances and extensive applications of the nanoscale materials are determined by their as-synthesized structures, especially their growth sizes and morphologies. Hereinto, titanium carbides, which show brilliant comprehensive properties, have attracted considerable attention from researchers. How to give full play to their potentials in the light-weight manufacture, microwave absorption, electromagnetic protection, energy conversion and catalyst areas has been widely studied. In this summarized article, the synthesis methods and mechanisms, corresponding growth morphologies of titanium carbides and their further applications were briefly reviewed and analyzed according to their different morphological dimensions, including one-dimensional nanostructures, two-dimensional nanosheets and three-dimensional nanoparticles. It is believed that through the investigation of the crystal structures, synthesis methods, growth mechanisms, and morphology characterizations of those titanium carbides, new lights could be shed on the regulation and control of the ceramic phase specific morphologies to meet with their excellent properties and applications. In addition, the corresponding development prospects and challenges of titanium carbides with various growth morphologies were also summarized.
Highlights
Titanium is a significant transition metal, and its carbide ceramics exhibit some superior comprehensive characteristics
The booming of titanium carbides ceramics has greatly promoted the advancement of light-weight manufacturing, microwave absorption, electromagnetic protection technology, energy conversion, and catalyzed synthesis, etc. [1,2,3,4,5,6] Throughout all of those development tendencies, titanium carbide ceramics almost always exhibit special morphology to follow the further applications
Considering that a high concentration of hydrofluoric acid (HF) can contaminate the environment and is very dangerous and harmful to researchers during the etching, a safer and more effective method to produce 2D MXene has been reported by Feng et al By exfoliating Ti3AlC2 using bifluorides (NaHF2, NH4HF2 and KHF2) in lieu of HF, a larger interplanar spacing of Ti3C2 can be obtained by a single-stage process [71]
Summary
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