Issue 34, 2018, Issue in Progress

Significant promotion of porous architecture and magnetic Fe3O4 NPs inside honeycomb-like carbonaceous composites for enhanced microwave absorption

Abstract

Carbonaceous composites with tailored porous architectures and magnetic Fe3O4 components derived from walnut shells were fabricated by a solvothermal method and used as effective microwave absorbers. The porous composites were obtained by two carbonization processes at different temperatures and an etching process using potassium hydroxide. The introduction of a developed porous architecture inside the resulting materials distinctly improved the microwave absorption performance. Moreover, investigations revealed that the Fe3O4 nanoparticles were chemically bonded and uniformly decorated on the porous framework without aggregation. Owing to the combined advantages of the lightweight conductive biochar-like porous framework with a favorable dielectric loss and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with magnetic loss features, these newly fabricated porous carbonaceous composites exhibited excellent microwave absorption performance. A reflection loss (RL) of −51.6 dB was achieved at a frequency of 13.6 GHz. Besides, the effective absorption (below −10 dB) bandwidth reached 5.8 GHz (from 11.9 to 17.7 GHz) at an absorber thickness of only 2 mm. These results indicated that this type of porous Fe3O4–biochar composite derived from biomass substances and prepared via an easy-to-handle process can be considered as attractive candidates for the design and manufacture of high-efficiency microwave-absorbing materials.

Graphical abstract: Significant promotion of porous architecture and magnetic Fe3O4 NPs inside honeycomb-like carbonaceous composites for enhanced microwave absorption

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Jan 2018
Accepted
08 May 2018
First published
23 May 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 19011-19023

Significant promotion of porous architecture and magnetic Fe3O4 NPs inside honeycomb-like carbonaceous composites for enhanced microwave absorption

S. Gao, Q. An, Z. Xiao, S. Zhai and Z. Shi, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 19011 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA00913A

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