8 - Electromagnetic interference shielding property of polymer-graphene composites

Abstract

Despite the notable oils aimed at the synthesis of numerous novel new polymers and their application in electronics, the performance properties of these polymers such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding when utilized in real-life applications are thought to be ineffective in many instances; thereby limiting their use in such challenging areas of material science and engineering. The synthesis of graphene and assessment of its novel properties like excellent mechanical properties, extraordinary thermal conductivity, EMI shielding, along with high electron transport, have attracted the attention of academic researchers and industrial researchers leading to the unwrapping of good outlooks for the incorporation of graphene as a reinforcing filler nanomaterial in polymer matrices to formulate multifunctional nanocomposites for advance application. Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites materials have inspired the synthesis of novel electronics like flexible electronics materials for advanced applications aimed at superior performance properties including thermal, electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical, shielding and electrochemical behavior. Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites are designed and engineered to simultaneously complement the properties of graphene and the polymer matrix through interfacial properly engineering and structural facile orientation. The all-encompassing research studies along with application on graphene, and its polymer matrix-based nanocomposites targeted at applications in the EMI shielding are covered in this chapter. The applications of graphenebased polymer nanocomposites for EMI shielding and patents are conversed. This chapter will be appealing to nanotechnologists, physicists, chemists, and other materials scientists who are interested in the EMI shielding and other properties of graphene polymer nanocomposites.