Comparative study of polymer-based nanocomposites microwave absorption performance in X-band

The present work focused on electromagnetic (EM) absorption performance comparison of different polymer nanocomposite structures. Synthesis and fabrication of polymer nanocomposite composed of graphene, polyurethane (PU), epoxy was done using in situ polymerization and resin transfer moulding respectively. The effect of polymer on EM properties of composite was carried out using waveguide measurement technique in X-band. Reflection Loss (RL) and shielding effectiveness (SE) were measured for various nanocomposites using EM wave theory. From the results it is observed that 2.5 wt% of PU/epoxy graphene nanocomposite has shown RL value -35 dB at 12.1 GHz and SE value of -45 dB.