One-pot solvothermal synthesis of sandwich-like graphene nanosheets/Fe 3O 4 hybrid material and its microwave electromagnetic properties

Abstract

A novel sandwich-like graphene nanosheets (GNs)/Fe 3O 4 hybrid material was synthesized through a facile one-pot solvothermal method using FeCl 3 as iron source, ethylene glycol as the reducing agent and graphene nanosheets as templates. The Fe 3O 4 nanoparticles, with the average diameters of ca. 40 nm, were self-assembled on the graphene nanosheets through electrostatic attraction and formed sandwich-like nanostructure. The ferromagnetic signature emerged with the saturated magnetization of ~ 72.3 emu g − 1 , and the coercive force of ~ 196.1 Oe at 300 K. The magnetic loss was caused mainly by natural resonance which is in agreement with the Kittel equation. The novel electromagnetic hybrid material is believed to have potential applications in the microwave absorbing performances.