New paper published and featured on the cover of Energy Advances on MBene aerogel batteries and capacitors

New paper published in Energy Advances. Our collaborative work with the group of Michael Naguib reports the synthesis of a delaminated 2D molybdenum boride MBene aerogel, Mo_4/3B₂T_x, and shows that it works very well as an anode material for lithium-ion storage because it combines accessible active sites, fast charge storage, and strong structural stability. The material delivered about 260 mAh/g after 500 cycles at a current of 2 A/g, and it reached an energy density of about 363 Wh/kg at 100 mA/g, which makes it promising for lithium-ion batteries and lithium-ion capacitors. DFT calculations support the experiments by showing that lithium prefers energetically favorable hexagonal Mo sites and moves with a relatively low diffusion barrier, helping explain the strong rate performance and long cycling stability.