News Summary

• Two-dimensional material first produced over a decade ago, but new research into them has developed a much more efficient way of producing them.
• In the intervening years since their discovery and first synthesis MXenes have shown potential for wide-ranging applications, from battery production to antennas to water purification.
• Another interesting application is as a switchable Faraday cage, as we’ve covered in the past.
• Hopefully the slow plod of scientific discovery continues and we can start seeing more of these incremental gains improving our lives, even if we don’t get a sudden technological revolution from it.