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Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Velutipes-Shaped Ni@CNTs Composites as Efficient Thin Microwave Absorbers

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An environmentally friendly solvent-free strategy for synthesis of velutipes-shaped Ni@CNTs-x composites as high-performance electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbers by combining Ni particles with carbon nanotubes (Ni@CNTs) through in situ pyrolysis of a mixture of nickel nitrate and melamine is proposed. The CNTs contained several microporous structures, thereby facilitating a reduction in density and an enhancement of the EMW absorption. The EMW absorption performance first increased then decreased with increasing Ni content. The effective absorption bandwidth (RL < −10 dB) of the synthesized Ni@CNTs-x was up to 5.45 GHz for a thickness of 1.79 mm, while the minimum reflection loss (RLmin) was −60.56 dB at 17.32 GHz for a thickness of 1.582 mm and 20 wt.% loading. Overall, the results of this study indicate that this facile environmentally friendly method is effective to prepare excellent, thin, lightweight EMW absorbers with wide absorption bandwidth and high absorption efficiency.

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This work was supported by the Dalian Science and Technology Innovation Fund Project (2019J11CY007), LiaoNing Revitalization Talents Program (XLYC 1802085 and 1807003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51303106), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT18GF107, DUT20 TD207).

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    Xiaoyu Zhu, Hongfang Qiu, Ping Chen, Jialiang Liu & Guanzhen Chen

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    Xiaoyu Zhu, Hongfang Qiu, Ping Chen, Jialiang Liu & Guanzhen Chen

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Zhu, X., Qiu, H., Chen, P. et al. Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Velutipes-Shaped Ni@CNTs Composites as Efficient Thin Microwave Absorbers. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 5368–5378 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08248-x

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