• 文献标题:   Broadband and strong electromagnetic wave absorption of epoxy composites filled with ultralow content of non-covalently modified reduced graphene oxides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG X, WANG XQ, MENG FB, CHEN JJ, DU SY
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanocomposite, microwave absorption, xray small angle scattering
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beihang Univ
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2019.07.076
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

High-efficiency microwave absorption epoxy nanocomposites filled with ultralow content of noncovalently modified reduced graphene oxides (rGO) are prepared via an in-situ polymerization method. Here, the porous and folded rGO nanosheets are successfully functionalized by strong pi-pi interaction between conjugated imidazole and graphene sheets. The combination of electron microscope and synchronous radiation X-ray small angle scattering (SAXS) techniques unambiguously illustrates that the non-covalently modified graphene nanosheets in the epoxy composites are well-dispersed and extensively winkle. Hence, compared with pristine rGO/epoxy composites, the composites containing the highly dispersed rGO demonstrate more ideal impedance matching and stronger microwave dissipation based on the experimental and simulated results. The composites remarkably achieve excellent microwave absorptions (minimum reflection loss of -65 dB, with a matching thickness of 1.8 mm), an extremely broad absorbing bandwidth of 7.48 GHz (RL < -10 dB) and ultralow filler loading (1-2 wt%). Moreover, the composites possess high hydrophobicity, endowing them attractive functions of self-cleaning. This work provides a promising, facile and scalable approach for designing and fabricating graphene-based nanocomposites with hydrophobicity and excellent microwave absorption capacities. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.