Multiscale Assembly of Grape-Like Ferroferric Oxide and Carbon Nanotubes: A Smart Absorber Prototype Varying Temperature to Tune Intensities

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• 作者：Ming-Ming Lu ; Mao-Sheng Cao ; Yi-Hua Chen ; Wen-Qiang Cao ; Jia Liu ; Hong-Long Shi ; De-Qing Zhang ; Wen-Zhong Wang ; Jie Yuan
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：34
• 页码：19408-19415
• 全文大小：733K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Ideal electromagnetic attenuation material should not only shield the electromagnetic interference but also need strong absorption. Lightweight microwave absorber with thermal stability and high efficiency is a highly sought-after goal of researchers. Tuning microwave absorption to meet the harsh requirements of thermal environments has been a great challenge. Here, grape-like Fe₃O₄-multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are synthesized, which have unique multiscale-assembled morphology, relatively uniform size, good crystallinity, high magnetization, and favorable superparamagnetism. The Fe₃O₄-MWCNTs is proven to be a smart microwave-absorber prototype with tunable high intensities in double belts in the temperature range of 323鈥?73 K and X band. Maximum absorption in two absorbing belts can be simultaneously tuned from 鈭尖垝10 to 鈭尖垝15 dB and from 鈭尖垝16 to 鈭尖垝25 dB by varying temperature, respectively. The belt for reflection loss 鈮も垝20 dB can almost cover the X band at 323 K. The tunable microwave absorption is attributed to effective impedance matching, benefiting from abundant interfacial polarizations and increased magnetic loss resulting from the grape-like Fe₃O₄ nanocrystals. Temperature adjusts the impedance matching by changing both the dielectric and magnetic loss. The special assembly of MWCNTs and magnetic loss nanocrystals provides an effective pathway to realize excellent absorbers at elevated temperature.