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Nanoarchitectonics of MnO2 nanotubes as sea urchin-like aggregates for dielectric response and microwave absorption with a wide concentration domain

Show Author's Information Zhi-Ling Hou1( ),  Kunrong Du1,  Yiqin Zhang1,  Song Bi2( ),  Junying Zhang1( )
College of Mathematics and Physics & Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmentally Harmful Chemical Analysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
501 Department, Xi’an Research Institute of High-Tech, Xi’an 710025, China
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broadband microwave absorption, MnO2 nanotubes, sea urchin-like aggregates, wide filling range
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Hou Z-L, Du K, Zhang Y, et al. Nanoarchitectonics of MnO2 nanotubes as sea urchin-like aggregates for dielectric response and microwave absorption with a wide concentration domain. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 2604-2610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5099-3
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Designing highly reliable and practical microwave absorbers is one of the most important research directions in the microwave absorbing field. Many absorbents suffer from concentration-sensitivity and environmental-sensitivity dilemmas in practical applications. Here, sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO2 nanotubes were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method, which exhibit an outstanding impedance matching characteristic. The composites based on sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO2 nanotubes show excellent microwave absorption performance in a wide concentration domain from 20 wt.% to 70 wt.%, corresponding to electrical conductivities from 1.86 × 10−7 to 1.85 × 10−5 S/m. Such a wide concentration range of absorbent for excellent microwave absorption is mainly attributed to the beneficial impedance matching properties of sea urchin-like aggregates of hollow nanotubes. A competitive absorption bandwidth of 3.36 GHz is achieved at 1 mm thickness, which can be broadened to 13.4 GHz by structural design. This work shows a new scheme for designing reliable and practical microwave absorbers benefit from the wide absorbent concentration domain.


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Nanoarchitectonics of MnO2 nanotubes as sea urchin-like aggregates for dielectric response and microwave absorption with a wide concentration domain

Show Author's information Zhi-Ling Hou1( ), Kunrong Du1, Yiqin Zhang1, Song Bi2( ), Junying Zhang1( )
College of Mathematics and Physics & Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmentally Harmful Chemical Analysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
501 Department, Xi’an Research Institute of High-Tech, Xi’an 710025, China

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Designing highly reliable and practical microwave absorbers is one of the most important research directions in the microwave absorbing field. Many absorbents suffer from concentration-sensitivity and environmental-sensitivity dilemmas in practical applications. Here, sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO2 nanotubes were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method, which exhibit an outstanding impedance matching characteristic. The composites based on sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO2 nanotubes show excellent microwave absorption performance in a wide concentration domain from 20 wt.% to 70 wt.%, corresponding to electrical conductivities from 1.86 × 10−7 to 1.85 × 10−5 S/m. Such a wide concentration range of absorbent for excellent microwave absorption is mainly attributed to the beneficial impedance matching properties of sea urchin-like aggregates of hollow nanotubes. A competitive absorption bandwidth of 3.36 GHz is achieved at 1 mm thickness, which can be broadened to 13.4 GHz by structural design. This work shows a new scheme for designing reliable and practical microwave absorbers benefit from the wide absorbent concentration domain.

Keywords: broadband microwave absorption, MnO2 nanotubes, sea urchin-like aggregates, wide filling range

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Received: 19 July 2022
Revised: 01 September 2022
Accepted: 22 September 2022
Published: 29 November 2022
Issue date: February 2023

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 62175010 and 62005010) and Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (No. 202000270S9002). The characterization results were supported by the Beijing Zhongkebaice Technology Service Co., Ltd.

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