• 文献标题:   Synthesis of lightweight N-doped graphene foams with open reticular structure for high-efficiency electromagnetic wave absorption
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU PB, ZHANG YQ, YAN J, HUANG Y, XIA L, GUANG ZX
  • 作者关键词:   ndoped graphene foam, open reticular structure, interconnected conductive network, electromagnetic wave absorption
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1385-8947 EI 1873-3212
  • 通讯作者地址:   Northwestern Polytech Univ
  • 被引频次:   161
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.cej.2019.02.193
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Chemical doping of graphene with heteroatoms is expected to be a promising strategy to enhance the electromagnetic wave attenuation capability, however, the intrinsic mechanism is not investigated in-depth. In this manuscript, ultra-lightweight N-doped graphene foams (rho = 10.5-16.6 mg/cm(3)) with high porosity and open reticular structures are prepared via a self-assembled hydrothermal reaction and a freeze-drying process. Compared with pure graphene foams, the presence of N heteroatoms helps to build open reticular walls and tailors the electrical properties, leading to strong electromagnetic wave absorption capacity and broad absorption bandwidth simultaneously, and meanwhile, the investigation of N bonding configurations illustrates that the presence of pyrrolic/pyridinic N are mainly essential for the dipolar relaxation loss whereas graphitic N is beneficial to the conduction loss. When the bulk density is 11.6 mg/cm(3), the maximum reflection loss of the absorber is -53.9 dB at 3.5 mm with a low filler loading of only 5 wt%, and the absorption bandwidth exceeding -10 dB is 4.56 GHz with a thickness of 2 mm, the highly efficient electromagnetic wave absorption performance strongly originates from the enhanced dipolar/interfacial polarizations, the multiple scatterings, the microscale circular conductive structures as well as the balanced impedance match. Furthermore, this monocomponent absorber can be an optimal candidate for ultra-lightweight and high-efficiency electromagnetic wave absorber without decorating other nanomaterials.