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A superior microwave absorption material of porous carbon nanosheet/Fe3O4 composites from petroleum asphalt as carbon source

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Designing high-performance microwave absorption (MA) materials becomes a considerable urgent demand with the rapid development of informatization in the modern world. Petroleum asphalt (PA)/Fe3O4 as absorbents with interconnected porous carbon nanosheets has been successfully fabricated by pyrolyzation and solvothermal approaches. The addition of NaCl as templates directly results in the formation of porous nanosheets structures, which improves the dielectric loss and facilitates the polarization effect of PA/Fe3O4 composites. Dramatically, a minimum reflection loss (RLmin) of PA/Fe3O4/paraffin (filler content is only 20 wt.%) can reach to − 68.54 dB (99.999986% wave absorption) and the effective absorption bandwidth covers up to 5.12 GHz with a thickness of 1.8 mm when the mass ratio of PA to Fe3O4 is 1:1. This study suggests that our work may open a new direction for designing candidate MA materials and can be able to achieve the use of PA-based materials with the advantages of low cost, high yield and environment-friendly according to the huge commercial value of PA itself.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks are due to Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Wear and Protection of Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, for measuring the performance of the materials such as TEM, SEM, XRD and BET in this study. The research was sponsored by 2022 Young Doctor Fund Project of Higher Education institutions in Gansu Province (2022QB-205), 2021 Lanzhou Science and Technology Development guiding Plan Project (2022-ZD-150) and 2022 Major Scientific Research Project of Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech University (X2022ZD-01).

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  1. Multi-Functional New Material Development Laboratory, Yellow River Basin Ecotope Integration of Industry and Education Research Institute, Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech University, Lanzhou, 730021, China

    Wei Ma, Wanli Li, Shu Ran & Guifeng Yang

  2. School of Metallurgical Engineering, Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech University, Lanzhou, 730021, China

    Wei Ma, Wanli Li & Shu Ran

  3. School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China

    Guifeng Yang

  4. Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Wear and Protection of Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Tingmei Wang

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Ma, W., Li, W., Ran, S. et al. A superior microwave absorption material of porous carbon nanosheet/Fe3O4 composites from petroleum asphalt as carbon source. J Mater Sci 58, 13279–13294 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08873-x

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