Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages 15869-15880Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22448
Keywords
ZrN0.4B0.6; silicon carbide; catalytic chemical vapor deposition; chemical vapor infiltration; microwave absorption
Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Science and Technology Planning Project of Sichuan Province [2018GZ0131]
- Central Universities [ZYGX2016J139]
- Science and Technology Support Program of Sichuan Province [2018RZ0042]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21603203]
- Sichuan Science and Technology Program [2014RZ0041]
- RMIT University
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Most microwave absorbers lose their function under harsh working conditions, such as a high temperature and an oxidative environment. Here, we developed a heterogeneous ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrid via combined catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) and chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) processes using ZrB2 as the starting material. The composition and structure of the ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrid were controlled by tuning the CCVD and CVI parameters, such as reaction temperature, time, and reactant concentration. The optimal heterogeneous ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrids were obtained initially by preparing ZrB2@C via the CCVD process at 650 degrees C for 30 min and the subsequent CVI at 1500 degrees C, where the ZrB2@C reacted with Si under N-2. The ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrid exhibited enhanced microwave absorption ability with a minimum reflection loss value of approximately -50.8 dB at 7.7 GHz, a thickness of similar to 3.05 mm, and antioxidation features at a high temperature of 600 degrees C. The heterogeneous ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrid possessed reasonable conductivity, leading to dielectric loss, whereas SiC nanofibers formed a three-dimensional network that brought higher dipole moments, whereas a small part of the ZrN0.4B0.6/SiC nanohybrid structure generated an effective interface for higher attenuation of microwaves. Therefore, these material features synergistically resulted in a well-defined Debye relaxation, Maxwell-Wagner relaxation, dipole polarization, and the quarter-wavelength cancellation, which accounted for the enhanced microwave absorption.
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