Ni/Porous Carbon-Based Composite Derived from Poplar Wood with Ultrabroad Band Microwave Absorption Performance

Abstract

Electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbers and electromagnetic shielding materials have attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, Ni/wood-based porous carbon (WPC) composite material was prepared via morphology genetic method by using nickel chloride and poplar as raw material, The experimental results show that the microwave absorbing properties of the materials are related to the pyrolysis temperature, when the pyrolysis temperature settle at 700 °C, the minimum reflection loss of WPC-Ni can reach-60.4 dB with the thickness of 2.93 mm. Moreover, the effective absorption bandwidth has been greatly broadened up to 7.3 GHz when the thickness is 2.63 mm. The reason for such excellent wave absorbing performance is that the introduction of magnetic particles Ni and WPC-Ni regular straight channels improve impedance matching, the heterogeneous interface of Ni/ wood increases the polarization loss of electromagnetic waves. It is believed that this work can provide a new idea for the preparation of low-cost and high-efficiency broadband microwave absorber.