Clean Energy Capability Portfolio | Storage Technologies |
Fire and Explosion Suppression for
Newly Developed
Electrochemical Storage
Materials
MXenes are a newly discovered class of two-dimensional transition metal carbides , nitrides and carbonitrides . These emerging materials for electrochemical storage have potential usage in lithium-ion battery applications such as cell phones and electric vehicles . However , their practical applications are currently limited by challenges with manufacturing , as well as fire and explosion safety . situ stress estimation and mapping , AI applications in geotechnical-geological context and near borehole geomechanics . |
Competitive Advantage • MXene-based materials have outstanding electronic properties and large surface areas , which ensure the inherent advantages as electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage
Impact • Improved safety of next generation electrochemical materials
• Rechargeable batteries with higher energy density
Successful Applications • Development of a highly thermally-insulated threedimensional composite architectures comprising epoxy , graphene and hydroxylated boron nitrides nanosheets
• Reinforcing the fire resistant properties of glass fibre using phosphorous-containing silane coupling agent
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Capabilities and Facilities • Collective fire testing facilities including cone calorimeter , horizontal and vertical fire spread ( UL94 ), and oxygen index
• Access to neutron beam diffraction facilities at ANSTO to study the molecular morphological structure of MXenes
• Application of novel computation codes to predict the structural , mechanical , electrical , magnetic and thermoelectric properties of MXenes
More Information Professor Guan Yeoh
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
T : + 61 2 9385 4099
E : g . yeoh @ unsw . edu . au
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