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Natural Hollow Fiber-Derived Carbon Microtube with Broadband Microwave Attenuation Capacity

Constructing hierarchical structures is indispensable to tuning the electromagnetic properties of carbon-based materials. Here, carbon microtubes with nanometer wall thickness and micrometer diameter were fabricated by a feasible approach with economical and sustainable kapok fiber. The carbonized k...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Yanfang, Long, Aichun, Zhao, Pengfei, Liao, Lusheng, Wang, Rui, Li, Gaorong, Wang, Bingbing, Liao, Xiaoxue, Yu, Rentong, Liao, Jianhe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36365495
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14214501
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Sumario:Constructing hierarchical structures is indispensable to tuning the electromagnetic properties of carbon-based materials. Here, carbon microtubes with nanometer wall thickness and micrometer diameter were fabricated by a feasible approach with economical and sustainable kapok fiber. The carbonized kapok fiber (CKF) exhibits microscale pores from the inherent porous templates as well as pyrolysis-induced nanopores inside the wall, affording the hierarchical carbon microtube with excellent microwave absorbing performance over broad frequency. Particularly, CKF-650 exhibits an optimized reflection loss (RL) of −62.46 dB (10.32 GHz, 2.2 mm), while CKF-600 demonstrates an effective absorption bandwidth (RL < −10 dB) of 6.80 GHz (11.20–18.00 GHz, 2.8 mm). Moreover, more than 90% of the incident electromagnetic wave ranging from 2.88 GHz to 18.00 GHz can be dissipated by simply controlling the carbonization temperature of KF and/or the thickness of the carbon-microtube-based absorber. These encouraging findings provide a facile alternative route to fabricate microwave absorbers with broadband attenuation capacity by utilizing sustainable biomass.