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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFB4703400) and the “5G + medical and health application pilot project” of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. Research of Y.G. on synthesis and fundamental properties of MXenes is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant DMR-2041050.

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  1. School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100091, China

    Guangcun Shan & Zejian Ding

  2. Institute of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Guangcun Shan

  3. A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Yury Gogotsi

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Shan, G., Ding, Z. & Gogotsi, Y. Two-dimensional MXenes and their applications. Front. Phys. 18, 13604 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-022-1254-2

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