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Metal carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides of early transition metals, better known as MXenes, possess notable structural, electrical, and magnetic properties. Analyzing electronic structures by calculating structural stability, band structure, density of states, Bader charge transfer, and work functions utilizing first principle calculations, we revealed that titanium nitride MXenes, namely TiN and TiN, have excess anionic electrons in their lattice voids, making them MXene electrides. Bulk TiN has competing antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic(FM) configurations with slightly more stable AFM configuration, while the TiN MXene is nonmagnetic. Although TiN favors AFM configuration with hexagonal crystal systems having point group symmetry, TiN does not support altermagnetism. The monolayer of the TiN MXene is a ferromagnetic electride. These unique properties of having non-nuclear interstitial anionic electrons in the electronic structure of titanium nitride MXene have not yet been reported in the literature. Density functional theory calculations show TiN is neither an electride, MXene, or magnetic.