• 文献标题:   Versatile graphene-alumina nanofibers for microwave absorption and EMI shielding
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHAMSHIRGAR AS, ALVAREZ MF, DEL CAMPO A, FERNANDEZ JF, HERNANDEZ RER, IVANOV R, ROSEN J, HUSSAINOVA I
  • 作者关键词:   hybrid nanofiber, graphene, epoxy resin matrix, microwave absorption, emi shielding
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118057 EA APR 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Carbon-based hybrid nanostructures have shown to be promising candidates as cost-efficient and effective fillers for electromagnetic interference shielding and RF absorption. In this work, hybrids of graphene-augmented inorganic (alumina) nanofibers (GAIN) have been incorporated in epoxy resin to fabricate a multilayer struc-ture with tunable absorption. Highly aligned graphene augmented alumina nanofibers of 10 +/- 2 nm in diameter were produced with the help of a hot wall one-step catalyst-free chemical vapor deposition method at 1000 degrees C. Effective medium approximation has been used to calculate the intrinsic dielectric properties of GAIN nanofibers. The highest loss tangent of 0.4 has been achieved in a 5 mm thick composite containing 1 vol% of randomly oriented nanofibers. Furthermore, aligned graphene augmented nanofibers were embedded in an epoxy resin matrix to examine the effect of fiber alignment on the dielectric properties of the composite. Based on the ob-tained dielectric data, a superposed three-layer structure has been fabricated, offering an absorption of >90% in the entire X-band and an absorption peak of-25 dB at similar to 11 GHz. Several multilayer designs based on finite element method coupled with Monte Carlo simulations have been proposed to tune the absorption character-istics. This work demonstrates the potential of the hybrid nanofibers with a dual loss function for versatile design options in the area of RF absorption.