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Advances in Carbon-Based Microwave Absorbing Material

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbon Materials".

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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Interests: microwave absorption; carbon-based composites; core-shell configuration; hollow microstructure; anti-corrosion magnetic metals
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School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Interests: carbon composites; porous structure; dielectric properties; magnetic particles; microwave absorption
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State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou 571100, China
Interests: electromagnetic wave absorption; atomic layer deposition; carbon materials; electromagnetic interference shielding; biosensors; gas sensors; thermal management materials
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Dear Colleagues,

Microwave absorption is evolving as an advanced strategy for electromagnetic (EM) pollution precaution, because its offers a sustainable pathway to fundamentally eliminate EM waves through energy dissipation. Microwave absorbing materials (MAMs), as the platform for energy conversion, have been undoubtedly receiving much attention in the past two decades. Actually, there have been almost 9000 published papers on the fabrication of MAMs since 2016. Among all kinds of MAMs, carbon materials always reside at the frontier of this field, due to their unique advantages in low density, chemical stability, tailorable dielectric property, good processability, and diverse forms. However, pristine carbon materials, such as graphite and carbon nanotubes, cannot produce desirable microwave absorption performance, and thus numerous efforts have been devoted to microstructure design and composition optimization in order to endow them with both excellent impedance matching and powerful intrinsic loss capability. To date, some characteristic internal configurations, such as porous, hollow, core-shell, yolk-shell, sandwich-like, multi-chamber, and foam-like microstructures, have demonstrated their positive effects on the microwave absorption of carbon materials. As compared with microstructure design, most studies focus on the rational construction of carbon-based composites, where magnetic ferrites, magnetic metals, metal oxides/sulfides, conductive polymers, and carbides are all utilized to combine with different carbon materials. Although some significant achievements have been made in these studies, a gap to their practical applications still remains, especially in broadband response and low-frequency absorption. This Special Issue aims to summarize the latest developments in carbon-based MAMs, including both high-performance carbon materials and carbon-based composites, and welcomes contributions to materials synthesis, advanced characterization, excellent performance, and the structure–activity relationship.

Prof. Dr. Yunchen Du
Prof. Dr. Panbo Liu
Prof. Dr. Guizhen Wang
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Keywords

  • microwave absorbing materials
  • carbon-based composites
  • dielectric loss
  • magnetic loss
  • microstructure design
  • composition optimization
  • reflection loss
  • absorption mechanism

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Advances in Carbon-Based Microwave Absorbing Materials
by Yunchen Du
Materials 2022, 15(4), 1359; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15041359 - 12 Feb 2022
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Electromagnetic (EM) pollution has been evolving as one of the most concerning environmental problems in current society, due to the extensive application of EM technology, from household electronic apparatuses to wireless base stations, as well as military radars [...] Full article
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SiC-Coated Carbon Nanotubes with Enhanced Oxidation Resistance and Stable Dielectric Properties
by Rong Li, Yuchang Qing, Juanjuan Zhao and Shiwen Huang
Materials 2021, 14(11), 2770; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14112770 - 24 May 2021
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) coated with SiC coating was successfully prepared by pyrolysis of polycarbosilane (PCS) used as a precursor. The function of pyrolysis temperature on the oxidation resistance and the dielectric properties of CNTs/SiC were studied in X-band. The results demonstrate that the [...] Read more.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) coated with SiC coating was successfully prepared by pyrolysis of polycarbosilane (PCS) used as a precursor. The function of pyrolysis temperature on the oxidation resistance and the dielectric properties of CNTs/SiC were studied in X-band. The results demonstrate that the obtained dense SiC film can prevent the oxidation of CNTs when the pyrolysis temperature reaches 600 °C. Correspondingly, after heat treatment is at 400 °C for 200 h, the mass loss of P-600 is less than 1.86%, and the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant nearly keep constant (ε′ from 14.2 to 14, and ε″ from 5.7 to 5.5). SiC-coated CNTs have a better oxidation resistance than pristine CNTs. Therefore, this work, with a facile preparation process, enhances the oxidation resistance of CNTs at high temperature for a long time and maintains a stable dielectric property, which means CNTs/SiC composites can be good candidates for applications in the field of high-temperature absorbers. Full article
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Recent Advances in Design and Fabrication of Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Wave Shielding and Absorbing
by Yang Huang, Ming Chen, Aming Xie, Yu Wang and Xiao Xu
Materials 2021, 14(15), 4148; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14154148 - 26 Jul 2021
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Electromagnetic (EM) pollution has raised significant concerns to human health with the rapid development of electronic devices and wireless information technologies, and created adverse effects on the normal operation of the sensitive electronic apparatus. Notably, the EM absorbers with either dielectric loss or [...] Read more.
Electromagnetic (EM) pollution has raised significant concerns to human health with the rapid development of electronic devices and wireless information technologies, and created adverse effects on the normal operation of the sensitive electronic apparatus. Notably, the EM absorbers with either dielectric loss or magnetic loss can hardly perform efficient absorption, which thereby limits their applications in the coming 5G era. In such a context, the hotspot materials reported recently, such as graphene, MXenes, and metal-organic frameworks (MOF)-derived materials, etc., have been explored and applied as EM absorbing and shielding materials owing to their tunable heterostructures, as well as the facile incorporation of both dielectric and magnetic components. In this review, we deliver a comprehensive literature survey according to the types of EM absorbing and shielding materials, and interpret the connectivity and regularity among them on the basis of absorbing mechanisms and microstructures. Finally, the challenges and the future prospects of the EM dissipating materials are also discussed accordingly. Full article
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