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High densities of magnetic nanoparticles supported on graphene fabricated by atomic layer deposition and their use as efficient synergistic microwave absorbers

Show Author's Information Guizhen Wang1,2,3,  Zhe Gao1,  Gengping Wan3,  Shiwei Lin3,  Peng Yang1,2,  Yong Qin1( )
State Key Laboratory of Coal ConversionInstitute of Coal ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesTaiyuan030001China
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100039China
Key Laboratory of Chinese Education Ministry for Tropical Biological ResourcesHainan UniversityHaikou570228China
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microwave absorption, graphene, magnetic nanoparticles, atomic layer deposition (ALD)
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Wang G, Gao Z, Wan G, et al. High densities of magnetic nanoparticles supported on graphene fabricated by atomic layer deposition and their use as efficient synergistic microwave absorbers. Nano Research, 2014, 7(5): 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0432-0
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An atomic layer deposition (ALD) method has been employed to synthesize Fe3O4/graphene and Ni/graphene composites. The structure and microwave absorbing properties of the as-prepared composites are investigated. The surfaces of graphene are densely covered by Fe3O4 or Ni nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution, and the magnetic nanoparticles are well distributed on each graphene sheet without significant conglomeration or large vacancies. The coated graphene materials exhibit remarkably improved electromagnetic (EM) absorption properties compared to the pristine graphene. The optimal reflection loss (RL) reaches -46.4 dB at 15.6 GHz with a thickness of only 1.4 mm for the Fe3O4/graphene composites obtained by applying 100 cycles of Fe2O3 deposition followed by a hydrogen reduction. The enhanced absorption ability arises from the effective impedance matching, multiple interfacial polarization and increased magnetic loss from the added magnetic constituents. Moreover, compared with other recently reported materials, the composites have a lower filling ratio and smaller coating thickness resulting in significantly increased EM absorption properties. This demonstrates that nanoscale surface modification of magnetic particles on graphene by ALD is a very promising way to design lightweight and high-efficiency microwave absorbers.


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High densities of magnetic nanoparticles supported on graphene fabricated by atomic layer deposition and their use as efficient synergistic microwave absorbers

Show Author's information Guizhen Wang1,2,3, Zhe Gao1, Gengping Wan3, Shiwei Lin3, Peng Yang1,2, Yong Qin1( )
State Key Laboratory of Coal ConversionInstitute of Coal ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesTaiyuan030001China
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100039China
Key Laboratory of Chinese Education Ministry for Tropical Biological ResourcesHainan UniversityHaikou570228China

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An atomic layer deposition (ALD) method has been employed to synthesize Fe3O4/graphene and Ni/graphene composites. The structure and microwave absorbing properties of the as-prepared composites are investigated. The surfaces of graphene are densely covered by Fe3O4 or Ni nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution, and the magnetic nanoparticles are well distributed on each graphene sheet without significant conglomeration or large vacancies. The coated graphene materials exhibit remarkably improved electromagnetic (EM) absorption properties compared to the pristine graphene. The optimal reflection loss (RL) reaches -46.4 dB at 15.6 GHz with a thickness of only 1.4 mm for the Fe3O4/graphene composites obtained by applying 100 cycles of Fe2O3 deposition followed by a hydrogen reduction. The enhanced absorption ability arises from the effective impedance matching, multiple interfacial polarization and increased magnetic loss from the added magnetic constituents. Moreover, compared with other recently reported materials, the composites have a lower filling ratio and smaller coating thickness resulting in significantly increased EM absorption properties. This demonstrates that nanoscale surface modification of magnetic particles on graphene by ALD is a very promising way to design lightweight and high-efficiency microwave absorbers.

Keywords: microwave absorption, graphene, magnetic nanoparticles, atomic layer deposition (ALD)

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Received: 09 December 2013
Revised: 15 February 2014
Accepted: 17 February 2014
Published: 23 April 2014
Issue date: May 2014

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21376256, 21173248, 21203229, 51362010), the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hundred Talents Program of Shanxi Province, and in-house projects of the State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion of China (Nos. Y2BWLD1931, Y3BWLE1931).

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