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Highly ordered, ultralight three-dimensional graphene-like carbon for high-frequency electromagnetic absorption

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The three-dimensional porous structure of a material can trap the propagating electromagnetic waves by multiple reflections and scatterings, thereby improving the microwave absorption properties. The highly ordered and interconnected porous NaY zeolites can serve as the templates to prepare the three-dimensional graphene (3DG). A high defect density of 13.4–23.7 × 1010 cm−2 was obtained in the 3DG due to the incomplete replication. Simultaneously, the broken asymmetry of space charges in the defect sites will lead to the separation of space charges and the formation of electric dipoles, which results in significantly enhanced dielectric performance and microwave absorption. Consequently, owing to the porous structure and high specific surface area, the effective absorption band of the 3DG attains a large width of 14.3 GHz (3.7–18 GHz) with the absorber thicknesses located in 2–5 mm. The microwave absorption performance of 3DG is much superior to that of multilayer graphene with a two-dimensional structure. Hence, this ultralight 3DG can act as a promising microwave absorption material and probably gifts other physical applications in the future.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1704253, 51471045, 51471048 and 51401049), the Zhejiang provincial natural science foundation of China (LR18E010001), the fundamental research funds for the Central universities (N160208001) and the basic research program of key laboratory of Liaoning province (LZ2015035).

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    Dianjun Zhang, Yijun Liao, Zhaohui Wang, Xuefeng Zhang & Yanhui Zhang

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Zhang, D., Liao, Y., Wang, Z. et al. Highly ordered, ultralight three-dimensional graphene-like carbon for high-frequency electromagnetic absorption. J Mater Sci 56, 4305–4315 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05533-2

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