MXenes

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In materials science, MXenes are a class of two-dimensional inorganic compounds along with MBenes, that consist of atomically thin layers of transition metal carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides. MXenes accept a variety of hydrophilic terminations.^[1][2] The first MXene was reported in 2011 at Drexel University's College of Engineering.^[1]