Research Interests:

• Functional, structural and high temperature materials:
• High temperature behavior of materials
• Novel synthesis and fabrication techniques – HPSPS
• Nanostructured ceramics and their mechanical behavior
• Atomic laminated materials – MAX and MAB phases
• Synthesis and implementation of 2D carbides and/or nitrides – MXene
• CMCs and MMCs

Properties:
Like Binary MX Phases

• High stiffness
• Corrosion resistant
• Creep resistant

Like Metals

• Good machinability
• High damage tolerance
• Thermal shock resistant

Like Both

• Electrically conductive
• Thermally conductive

  

Advantages of using MXene as fillers in CMCs

• The addition of just a few percent of 2D materials can dramatically modify the properties of matrix materials.
• MXenes posses’ high young’s modulus, electrical conductivity, and high-temperature phase stability.
• MXene solution processability make them great candidates for CMCs’ wet or slurry-based solution processing of green bodies. 
• The negative zeta potential (– 32 to – 45 mV) of as-synthesized MXenes eliminates the need for the use of conventional surfactant materials.
• MXenes can be compositionally tailored for improved functional properties and grain-boundary bonding in structural CMCs.

  
  Email: sokolmax@tauex.tau.ac.il