Oxygen and chlorine evolution without noble metals: Electrode potential transforms MXene surfaces

MXenes are a class of two-dimensional materials that were discovered in 2011. Theoretical studies previously predicted that they would not be catalytically active in anodic processes. Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Kai S. Exner, head of the Department of Theoretical Catalysis and Electrochemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), have now disproved this theory using multiscale modeling.