Hierarchical nitrogen/cobalt co-doped carbonaceous materials with electromagnetic waves absorption promoting nanostructures

In order to solve the pollution of electromagnetic interference (EMI), hierarchical Co/N-co-doped carbonaceous compounds with absorption promoting nanostructures were prepared as absorbing materials via a seaweed-based hydrogel strategy. XRD, Raman, SEM, TEM, VSM and XPS were used to characterize the resultant samples. All the tests indicated that the absorber carbonized at 700 degrees C (SA/N-CoxOy-700, among, SA represents sodium alginate and 700 means that the carbonization temperature was 700 degrees C) has an excellent performance, which minimal RL can reach to -47.31 dB at 16.16 GHz and the effective absorption bandwidth (RL < -10 dB) is 4.56 GHz from 13.44 to 18 GHz. The relative superior performance is mainly attributed to the cooperative effect of nitrogen-doped carbon skeleton, expanded surface, multiple defects, various phase interface and hierarchal pore structures, thus leading to the improvement in multiple reflections and scattering, nature resonance, eddy-current effect, the consumption of thermal energy, dipoles and interfacial polarization. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.