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In order to meet the requirements of the marine environment for microwave absorption (MA) materials, we put forward the strategy of constructing multi-functional composite materials, which integrate microwave absorption, anti-corrosion, and antibacterial properties. Herein, graphene oxide (GO) was used as a template to induce the growth of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), simultaneously as a two-dimensional (2D) nanocontainers to load corrosion inhibitors to achieve pH-responsive and self-healing properties. Finally, quaternary ammonium salt (dimethyl octadecyl(3-trimethoxylsilyl propyl) ammonium chloride (DMAOP)) and sodium ascorbate (VCNa) were introduced to achieve synergistic antibacterial activity and the reduction of GO. The 2D strip-like structure of ZIF-8 was due to the confined growth induced by the electrostatic attraction between ZIF-8 and GO sheets. The as-obtained reduced GO (RGO)/ZIF-8/DMAOP5 exhibited excellent microwave absorption (MA) properties, with a minimum reflection loss (RL) value of −47.08 dB at 12.73 GHz when the thickness was 2.8 mm. Moreover, the effective absorption bandwidth reached 6.84 GHz. After soaking in 3.5% NaCl solution for 35 days, the RGO/ZIF-8/DMAOP5-0.7% coating still achieved an impedance value of 4.585 × 107 Ω·cm2 and a protective efficiency of 99.994%, providing superior anti-corrosion properties. In addition, fantastic antibacterial activity was obtained, with the antibacterial rates of RGO/ZIF-8/DMAOP10 reaching 99.39% and 100% against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. This work could open new avenues towards the development of a new generation of multifunctional MA materials.


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Design of novel RGO/2D strip-like ZIF-8/DMAOP ternary hybrid structure towards high-efficiency microwave absorption, active and passive anti-corrosion, and synergistic antibacterial performance

Show Author's information Tanlin Chen1Yingrui Tian1Zihao Guo1Yao Chen1Qing Qi1( )Fanbin Meng1,2( )
Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Shenzhen Institute of Southwest Jiaotong University, Shenzhen 518000, China

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In order to meet the requirements of the marine environment for microwave absorption (MA) materials, we put forward the strategy of constructing multi-functional composite materials, which integrate microwave absorption, anti-corrosion, and antibacterial properties. Herein, graphene oxide (GO) was used as a template to induce the growth of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), simultaneously as a two-dimensional (2D) nanocontainers to load corrosion inhibitors to achieve pH-responsive and self-healing properties. Finally, quaternary ammonium salt (dimethyl octadecyl(3-trimethoxylsilyl propyl) ammonium chloride (DMAOP)) and sodium ascorbate (VCNa) were introduced to achieve synergistic antibacterial activity and the reduction of GO. The 2D strip-like structure of ZIF-8 was due to the confined growth induced by the electrostatic attraction between ZIF-8 and GO sheets. The as-obtained reduced GO (RGO)/ZIF-8/DMAOP5 exhibited excellent microwave absorption (MA) properties, with a minimum reflection loss (RL) value of −47.08 dB at 12.73 GHz when the thickness was 2.8 mm. Moreover, the effective absorption bandwidth reached 6.84 GHz. After soaking in 3.5% NaCl solution for 35 days, the RGO/ZIF-8/DMAOP5-0.7% coating still achieved an impedance value of 4.585 × 107 Ω·cm2 and a protective efficiency of 99.994%, providing superior anti-corrosion properties. In addition, fantastic antibacterial activity was obtained, with the antibacterial rates of RGO/ZIF-8/DMAOP10 reaching 99.39% and 100% against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. This work could open new avenues towards the development of a new generation of multifunctional MA materials.

Keywords: microwave absorption, antibacterial, active and passive anti-corrosion, two-dimensional (2D) strip-like zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8)

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Received: 22 August 2023
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51903213 and 5217130190), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Sichuan Province (Nos. 2023NSFSC1952 and 2022ZYD0028), the Central Government Guides Local Science and Technology Development Special Funds to freely explore basic research projects (No. 2021Szvup124), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2682021GF004). The authors would like to thank the Analytical and Testing Center of Southwest Jiaotong University for supporting the relative measurements.

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