https://www.selleckchem.com/products/s-2-hydroxysuccinic-acid.html Opportunities and challenges for in crystallo organometallic chemistry are discussed.Li-ion batteries attract great attention due to the rapidly increasing and urgent demand for high energy storage devices. MAX phase compounds, layered ternary transition metal carbides and/or nitrides show promise as candidate materials of electrodes for Li-ion batteries. However, the highest specific capacity reported up to now is relatively low (180 mA h g-1), preventing them from use in real applications. Exploring more MAX phase compounds with delaminated two-dimensional structure is an effective solution to increase the specific capacity. Herein, we report the reversible electrochemical intercalation of Li+ into Ti2SnC (MAX phase) nanosheets. Owing to the synergistic effects of intercalation and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-assisted exfoliation, Ti2SnC nanosheets are successfully obtained via sonication in DMSO. Moreover, when using as an anode of a Li-ion battery, Ti2SnC nanosheets exhibited an increasing specific capacity with cycling due to the exfoliation of Ti2SnC nanosheets via reversible Li-ion intercalation. After 1000 charge-discharge cycles, Ti2SnC nanosheets delivered a high specific capacity of 735 mA h g-1 at a current density of 50 mA g-1, which is far better than other MAX phases, such as Ti2SC, Ti3SiC2 and Nb2SnC. The current work demonstrates the Li-ion storage potential and indicates a novel strategy for further intercalation and delamination of MAX phases.Polymer production is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To reduce GHG emissions, the polymer industry needs to shift towards renewable carbon feedstocks such as biomass and CO2. Both feedstocks have been shown to reduce GHG emissions in polymer production, however often at the expense of increased utilization of the limited resources biomass and renewable electricity. Here, we explore synergetic effects between biomass and CO2 ut