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Scalable synthesis of 2D Ti2CTx MXene and molybdenum disulfide composites with excellent microwave absorbing performance

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The signal crosstalk and electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems direly need to be resolved in the rapid development of modern microwave communication technology for a better working frequency and transmission power of electronic systems. Where the new absorbing materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)/titania (TiO2)/Ti2CTx and MoS2/Ti2CTx composites could meet the requirement of “thin, strong, light weight, and wide band” for excellent absorbing performance. In this work, a lighter Ti2CTx material was selected as the matrix, and MoS2 was in-situ grown on Ti2CTx matrix by traditional hydrothermal method and microwave solvothermal method. The fabricated composite exhibited synergic effect of two-dimensional heterostructural interface and double dielectric elements, where a small amount of TiO2 and a certain proportion of MoS2 jointly improve the impedance matching of the composite material. In here, the extreme reflection loss (RLmin) can reach − 54.70 dB (with a frequency of 7.59 GHz, 3.39 mm thickness), and the maximum effective absorption bandwidth (EABmax) can reach 4 GHz. Polyethylene glycol 200 was used as the solvent instead of water to make Ti2CTx less oxidized during the composite process, where the microwave heating would attain fast speed, short time, high efficiency, and uniform product. Since, the MoS2/Ti2CTx composite without oxidizing possessed a wider effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) at a thinner thickness, thus resulting in the excellent microwave absorption performance and confirming the validity and rationality of new microwave absorption materials.

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The research was supported by the Key Scientific Research projects of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province (21A430009), Henan Provincial Science and Technology R&D Plan Joint Fund (Application Research) Project (222103810045), and Natural science Project of Zhengzhou Science and Technology Bureau (Special project of collaborative innovation) (22ZZRDZX02).

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  1. Henan International Joint Laboratory of Nano-Photoelectric Magnetic Materials, Henan University of Technology, Henan, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Baoji Miao, Yange Cao, Qingsong Zhu, Muhammad Asif Nawaz & Fengchun Wei

  2. Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Material Sciences Institute of Seville, University of Seville-CSIC, Seville, 41092, Spain

    Muhammad Asif Nawaz, Jose Antonio Ordiozola & Tomas Ramirez Reina

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

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  4. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

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  5. Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK

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Miao, B., Cao, Y., Zhu, Q. et al. Scalable synthesis of 2D Ti2CTx MXene and molybdenum disulfide composites with excellent microwave absorbing performance. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 6, 61 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-023-00643-2

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