Electro-Magnetic Wave Absorbing Properties Study of Nano-Composites Based on Fe3O4

Abstract

Chemical coprecipitation method, hydrothermal method and micro-emulsion method were adopted to prepare pure Fe3O4 (X1) magnetic nano-particles, reduced graphene oxide-Fe3O4 (X2) binary composites and reduced graphene oxide-Fe3O4-polyaniline (X3) ternary composites. The morphology, structure and magnetic performance were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and vibration sample magnetism (VSM). The result of TEM showed that Fe3O4 nano-particles distributed uniformly on the surface of graphene and PANI matrix and the mean size was bout 13~14 nm. The electromagnetic data was tested by vector network analyzer demonstrating that the minnimum reflection loss (RLmin) value of X3 was -53.94 dB at 16.1 GHz with 1.5 mm thickness and 3.82 GHz (14.18~18 GHz) absorbing bandwidth (RL<italic/>-10 dB). Compared with pure magnetic Fe3O4 powders and rGO-Fe3O4 binary composites, the rGO-Fe3O4-PANI ternary composites were conduced to a great reinforce of the electro-magnetic wave absorbing properties and absorbing bandwidth.