?? ?? ?? ?? ?? PhD Position in SHS produced high – entropy MXenes https://lnkd.in/d6Bvd9s5Tallinn University of Technology School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering offers a 4-year PhD position in Production and materials engineering, robotics, transport and logistics.The proposed PhD thesis topic: "SHS produced high – entropy MXenes"Supervisors: Tenured Full Professor Irina Hussainova and Researcher Sofiya Aydinyan (TalTech)AbstractThe project aims at radically new and far beyond the state-of-the-art platform for the preparation of high-entropy MAX phases and their 2D counterparts (high-entropy MXenes) with targeted functionalities unleashing their potential for energy storage. The overall goals are (i) to prepare novel high-entropy MAX phases of high purity with the help of an energy-saving self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS), and (ii) to develop 2D high-entropy MXene nanosheets of high conductivity, high flexibility, extended lifetime and electrochemical capacitance. The project addresses the following research questions: What are the main expected benefits and challenges of using SHS approaches for MXenes production? What is the most suitable precursor material and alternative concepts to mitigate combustion synthesis conditions? How to control the heating rate of reagents in the combustion wave and the post-combustion process? How to control a crystal structure and to facilitate subsequent delamination process of high entropy MXenes?…more