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Microwave Absorption Properties of Flaky Carbonyl Iron @ Fe3O4 Produced by Plasma-Assisted Ball Milling

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In this work, large-diameter flaky carbonyl iron (FCI) and FCI@Fe3O4 composite materials were prepared by employing a simple plasma-assisted ball milling and heat treatment process. Large FCI was obtained, with 30-70 μm diameters and a thickness of 300 nm. The results show that, compared with the original polycrystalline carbonyl iron fiber, FCI exhibited higher wave-absorbing performance. When the matching thickness was 2 mm, FCI showed strong absorption of electromagnetic waves, and the minimum reflection loss reached − 33.5 dB at 11 GHz. When the matching thickness was 1.6 mm, the effective absorbing bandwidth reached 5.3 GHz at a reflection loss of <  − 10 dB. The absorption properties were enhanced further by producing the FCI@Fe3O4 composites, for which the maximum reflection loss reached − 52 dB at 3.8 GHz, with a matching thickness of 4.6 mm. This study demonstrated an effective way to improve the microwave absorbing performance of polycrystalline carbonyl iron at low frequencies while supporting industrial mass production.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2023ZYGXZR004). We thank Robert Ireland, PhD, from Liwen Bianji (Edanz) (www.liwenbianji.cn) for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

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    Xian Liu, WanTing Xu & Zhongchen Lu

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    Na Liu & Meiqin Zeng

  3. Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials of Guangdong Province, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Xian Liu, Na Liu, WanTing Xu, Meiqin Zeng & Zhongchen Lu

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Liu, X., Liu, N., Xu, W. et al. Microwave Absorption Properties of Flaky Carbonyl Iron @ Fe3O4 Produced by Plasma-Assisted Ball Milling. J. of Materi Eng and Perform (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-024-09435-1

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