Exploring the Potential of MXenes for Biomedical and Environmental Applications—An Abridged Review
Narendhar Chandrasekar, Pinky Steffi Alexander, Phuong Thi Pham, Balaji Ramachandran, D. R. Nivedha, N. Chandra Shekar, Madhumita Muraleetharan, Sarigamala Karthik Kiran, Michael Taeyoung Hwang
Abstract
A new class of 2D nanomaterials called MXenes, which have been of interest in recent years, which possess outstanding electrochemical, biological, optical, and mechanical capabilities. The MXene heterostructures' prominence in technologies including bioimaging, contrast enhancement through luminescence, biosensors, batteries, and environmental applications have picked up pace. This review will cover various intriguing MXene-based biomedical and environmental applications through their most recent developments, design principles, and operational mechanisms. Different forms of MXenes may be associated with pharmaceutical compounds, metallic nanostructured materials, polymeric structures, and other functional components. MXenes face several further advancements as well as significant hurdles in employing them in a right sort of material composition. A thorough discussion of this remarkable material's potential applications and difficulties as discussed in this review along with the highly tunable physiochemical properties.