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Sawmilling Technology Sustainability Wood Science Journal article

Size/Shape-Controllable Carbonized Wood Electrodes Enabled by an MXene Shell with Spatial Confinement and a Traction Effect on the Wood Cell Wall for Shape-Customizable Energy Storage Devices

Kai Yang, Daotong Zhang, Zhao Li, Tao Zhang, Chaozheng Liu, Pei Yang, Guoqiang Zhou, Min Luo, Yiying Ling, Weimin Chen, Xiaoyan Zhou

26 June 2024 · Nano Letters

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The shrinkage and collapse of wood cell walls during carbonization make it challenging to control the size and shape of carbonized wood (CW) through pre- or postprocessing (e.g., sawing, cutting, and milling). Herein, a shape-adaptive MXene shell (MS) is created on the surface of the wood cell walls. The MS limits the deformation of wood cell walls by spatial confinement and traction effects, which is supported by the inherent dimensional stability of the MS and the formation of new C–O–Ti covalent bonds between the wood cell wall and MS. Consequently, the volumetric shrinkage ratio of CW encapsulated by the MS (CW-MS) is significantly reduced from 54.8% for CW to 2.6% for CW-MS even at 800 °C. The harnessing of this collapse enables the production of CW-MS with prolonged stability and high electric conductivity (384 S m –1 ). These properties make CW-MS suitable for energy storage devices with various designed shapes, matching the increasingly compact and complex structures of electronic devices.

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