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Boosting Transport Kinetics of Ions and Electrons Simultaneously by Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Addition for Enhanced Electrochromic Performance

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00544-9
Wenting Wu
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
Huajing Fang
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
Hailong Ma
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
Liangliang Wu
School of Electronic and Information Engineering and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
Wenqing Zhang
Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, People’s Republic of China
Hong Wang
School of Electronic and Information Engineering and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Hong Wang

wangh6@sustech.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 13 (2021), Article Number: 20

Abstract

Electrochromic technology plays a significant role in energy conservation, while its performance is greatly limited by the transport behavior of ions and electrons. Hence, an electrochromic system with overall excellent performances still need to be explored. Initially motivated by the high ionic and electronic conductivity of transition metal carbide or nitride (MXene), we design a feasible procedure to synthesize the MXene/WO3−x composite electrochromic film. The consequently boosted electrochromic performances prove that the addition of MXene is an effective strategy for simultaneously enhancing electrons and ions transport behavior in electrochromic layer. The MXene/WO3−x electrochromic device exhibits enhanced transmittance modulation and coloration efficiency (60.4%, 69.1 cm2 C−1), higher diffusion coefficient of Li+ and excellent cycling stability (200 cycles) over the pure WO3−x device. Meanwhile, numerical stimulation theoretically explores the mechanism and kinetics of the lithium ion diffusion, and proves the spatial and time distributions of higher Li+ concentration in MXene/WO3−x composite electrochromic layer. Both experiments and theoretical data reveal that the addition of MXene is effective to promote the transport kinetics of ions and electrons simultaneously and thus realizing a high-performance electrochromic device. This work opens new avenues for electrochromic materials design and deepens the study of kinetics mechanism of ion diffusion in electrochromic devices.


Highlights:


1 MXene/WO3−x composite film with excellent electrochromic performances was fabricated for the first time.
2 The addition of MXene is an effective strategy for simultaneously enhancing electron and ion transport behaviors in the electrochromic layer.
3 The kinetics of ion diffusion in electrochromic devices are studied in depth based on both experiment and simulation.

Keywords

Electrochromic Mxene Transport kinetics Ionic conductivity Tungsten oxide
Wu, Wenting, Huajing Fang, Hailong Ma, Liangliang Wu, Wenqing Zhang, and Hong Wang. 2020. “Boosting Transport Kinetics of Ions and Electrons Simultaneously by Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Addition for Enhanced Electrochromic Performance”. Nano-Micro Letters 13 (November):20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00544-9.
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