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ClearMXenes as Emerging Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
This review covers MXenes, a family of two-dimensional materials with unique layered structures that show promise for energy and environmental applications. Researchers examined how MXenes can be synthesized and modified to enhance their properties for uses including photocatalysis, gas sensing, and water treatment. The materials' ability to be tuned through changes in composition and surface chemistry makes them potential candidates for addressing environmental contamination challenges.
Advanced perspectives on MXene composite nanomaterials: Types synthetic methods, thermal energy utilization and 3D-printed techniques
Researchers reviewed MXene, a family of ultra-thin 2D nanomaterials, and their composites for applications in heat storage, solar energy conversion, and 3D printing inks, finding photo-to-thermal and electro-to-thermal conversion efficiencies of 80–90%. The review also explores future uses in hydrogen storage, carbon capture, and environmental pollution cleanup.
The power of MXene-based materials for emerging contaminant removal from water - A review
This review examines MXenes, a new class of two-dimensional materials being developed for water purification. These materials show strong potential for removing a range of pollutants from water, including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues, and PFAS (forever chemicals). Better water treatment technology like this could reduce human exposure to microplastics and other contaminants in drinking water.
A Critical Review on 2D Nanomaterials for Microplastic Remediation From Water: Current Progress and Challenges
This review summarizes how two-dimensional nanomaterials such as MXenes, graphene-based materials, and transition metal dichalcogenides can be used to remove microplastics from water. Researchers found these materials show significant promise for microplastic remediation through adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane filtration due to their unique structural properties and chemical stability. The study outlines remaining challenges for scaling these technologies to industrial applications.
A comprehensive review on monitoring and purification of water through tunable 2D nanomaterials
This review examines how two-dimensional nanomaterials — including graphene, g-C3N4, MoS2, and MXene — can be used to monitor and remove heavy metals, organic pollutants, and other contaminants from water systems more efficiently than conventional methods.
MXene/Carbon Nanocomposites for Water Treatment
This review examines the potential of combining MXene materials with carbon nanomaterials to create advanced composites for water purification. Researchers found that these hybrid materials are effective at removing a wide range of pollutants including heavy metals, dyes, and organic contaminants from water. The study highlights that while promising, challenges around material stability and scalability still need to be addressed before widespread use.
Engineering Various Morphologies of 2 Dimensional Nanomaterials for Enhanced Nanolubricant Efficiency: A Review
This review examines how two-dimensional nanomaterials of various morphologies—sheets, ribbons, and quantum dots—can be used as lubricant additives to reduce friction and wear, with implications for designing nanomaterial-based systems that minimize environmental release of engineered particles.
Soft Actuators and Actuation: Design, Synthesis, and Applications
This review covers the design, synthesis, and applications of soft actuators made from hydrogel materials, which are used in robotics, artificial muscles, and biomedical devices. Researchers examined fabrication techniques including 3D printing and photolithography, as well as how these materials respond to environmental stimuli. While primarily a materials science review, it touches on the broader context of developing biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastic-based components.
MXene-based materials for removal of antibiotics and heavy metals from wastewater– a review
This review examines the use of MXene-based materials for removing antibiotics and heavy metals from wastewater. Researchers found that MXene-based membranes, adsorbents, and photocatalysts show strong potential for water treatment due to their high electrical conductivity, thermal stability, and superior sorption capacity for hazardous contaminants.
MXene-supported AgNPs in smart hydrogels: Shrink-enabled amplification for high-performance multi-channel SERS sensing.
Researchers developed a MXene-supported silver nanoparticle smart hydrogel wearable sensor that exploits hydrogel shrinkage upon ethanol exposure for signal amplification, enabling high-sensitivity multi-channel detection. The platform was proposed for health monitoring applications requiring flexible, sensitive biosensing.
Two-Dimensional MXene as a Promising Adsorbent for Trihalomethanes Removal: A Density-Functional Theory Study
Researchers used density-functional theory to model how MXene nanomaterials could adsorb trihalomethanes, which are common carcinogenic byproducts of water chlorination. They found that the MXene-Cl variant showed the strongest binding affinity for these contaminants among the configurations tested. The study suggests that MXene-based materials could serve as promising adsorbents for removing harmful disinfection byproducts from treated drinking water.
Review of Two-Dimensional MXenes (Ti3C2Tx) Materials in Photocatalytic Applications
This review covers Ti3C2Tx MXene-based photocatalysts, summarizing preparation techniques and recent advances in photocatalytic CO2 reduction, nitrogen fixation, hydrogen evolution, and pollutant degradation, finding that MXenes enhance photocatalytic performance by blocking electron-hole recombination.
Advances in Materials and Technologies for Gas Sensing from Environmental and Food Monitoring to Breath Analysis
This review examines recent advances in gas sensing materials and technologies across environmental monitoring, food quality control, and medical breath analysis applications. Researchers highlight how nanostructured and composite sensing materials are enabling improved device performance and opening new application areas. The study discusses emerging trends in sensor development that could impact environmental pollution detection and healthcare diagnostics.
MXene based nanoarchitectures for organic contaminants degradation under sonophotocatalytic environment: eco-friendly synthesis, catalytic attributes and recent advancements
This review covers MXene-based materials, a new class of nanocatalysts that can break down organic pollutants in water using combined sound and light energy. The technology shows promise for degrading contaminants including microplastics without creating secondary pollution. Better water treatment methods like these could help reduce human exposure to microplastics and other harmful substances in drinking water.
The Impact of Surface Chemistry and Synthesis Conditions on the Adsorption of Antibiotics onto MXene Membranes
Not relevant to microplastics — this study investigates how different synthesis methods affect the antibiotic adsorption performance of MXene (a 2D nanomaterial) membranes, a water treatment application unrelated to microplastic pollution.
Advances in assembled micro- and nanoscale mechanical contact probes
This review examined advances in assembled micro- and nanoscale mechanical contact probes used for characterizing surface properties and behavior, covering their development, diversification, and applications in physical and biological science for mapping surface and interface phenomena at nanometer resolution.
Trapping and detecting nanoplastics by MXene-derived oxide microrobots
Researchers developed MXene-derived oxide microrobots capable of autonomously capturing nanoplastics from water using light-powered movement and magnetic collection. The self-propelled microrobots trapped nanoplastics on their surfaces and enabled subsequent electrochemical detection, offering a proof-of-concept for on-site nanoplastic screening and water remediation.
Recent Trends in Chemical Sensors for Detecting Toxic Materials
This review covers recent advances in chemical sensors for detecting toxic substances, including improvements in nanomaterial-based, optical, and electrochemical sensing technologies. While focused broadly on toxic chemical detection, the sensor technologies described are increasingly being adapted to detect microplastics in environmental samples. Better detection tools are essential for understanding how much microplastic contamination exists in water, food, and air.
Recent advances in hydrogen production using MXenes-based metal sulfide photocatalysts
This review examines recent advances in MXene-based metal sulfide photocatalysts for hydrogen production via photocatalytic water splitting, highlighting the unique properties of MXenes including tunable bandgaps, high electrical conductivity, large surface area, and photo-thermal effects that make them promising noble metal-free photocatalyst supports. The review covers four years of progress in MAX phase synthesis and new MXene derivatives developed for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution.
COMPOSITE MEMBRANES BASED ON MXene AND NANOCELLULOSE: PROPERTIES AND WATER PURIFICATION EFFICIENCY
Researchers reviewed composite membranes based on MXene and nanocellulose for water purification, evaluating their ability to remove heavy metals, dyes, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics. The membranes demonstrated high removal efficiency across contaminant types due to their large surface area and tunable charge properties.