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Preparation of reduced graphene oxide coated flaky carbonyl iron composites and their excellent microwave absorption properties

Abstract

In this study, a novel absorber with a high performance microwave absorption property was prepared by innovatively coupling flaky carbonyl iron (FCI) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets into a homogenous composite. The rGO nanosheets are tightly coated on the surface of FCI, which gives typical dielectric dispersion behavior of complex permittivity and resultantly optimizes characteristic impedance matching. Meanwhile, the introduction of rGO as a dielectric lossy material endows FCI with improved dielectric loss ability and unfading magnetic loss ability. In the frequency range of 2.0–18.0 GHz, the rGO-coated FCI composite gives a minimum value of reflection loss with −65.4 dB at 5.2 GHz when the absorber thickness is 3.87 mm and always shows effective bandwidth under −20 dB when absorber thickness is from 1.5 mm to 5 mm. The contribution of typical dielectric dispersion behavior in rGO-coated FCI is demonstrated by a delta-function method to characteristic impedance matching and the excellent microwave absorbing performance.

Graphical abstract: Preparation of reduced graphene oxide coated flaky carbonyl iron composites and their excellent microwave absorption properties

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 Dec 2017
Accepted
06 Jan 2018
First published
15 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 2971-2977

Preparation of reduced graphene oxide coated flaky carbonyl iron composites and their excellent microwave absorption properties

L. He, Y. Zhao, L. Xing, P. Liu, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang, Y. Wang and Y. Du, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 2971 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA12984J

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