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Combination of pumpkin-derived biochar with nickel ferrite/FeNi3 toward low frequency electromagnetic absorption

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The rapid development of electromagnetic communication and electronic technique has brought serious problems of EMI and electromagnetic radiation. Herein, a combined method of ball milling, hydrothermal and multiple calcination processes was utilized to synthesize pumpkin-derived biochar/nickel ferrite/FeNi3 composite. The nickel ferrite and FeNi3 nanoparticles are distributed uniformly on the surface of biochar, and the thin carbon layer formed on the surface of NPs endows a better impedance matching to the particles. The excellent low frequency absorption performance can be achieved via the cooperative effect of dielectric and magnetic wastage mechanisms i.e., low frequency natural resonance, abundant interface polarization, dipolar polarization, conductive loss, multi-reflection and scatter etc. The maximum RL value achieves − 59.29 dB at 1.30 GHz with the effective absorption bandwidth of 1.34 GHz (0.76–2.1 GHz), declaring this biochar/nickel ferrite/FeNi3 ternary hybrid could be used as one kind of efficient low frequency electromagnetic absorbent.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant of 51704242, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province in China under grant of 2018JM5094, the Special Scientific Research Project of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education under grant of 19JK014, the Shaanxi Natural Science Research Program under grant of 2020JQ-915, the Innovation Training Program of Sichuan Agricultural University under grant of 202010626006, the Research Interest Training Program of Sichuan Agricultural University under grant of 2020492 and the Two-Way Support Program of Sichuan Agricultural University under grant of 2021993073.

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    Pengfei Yin, Hanbing Rao, Yanying Wang, Jian Wang, Xing Feng & Yuting Tang

  2. School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, People’s Republic of China

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    Jianwu Dai

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    Hao Cheng

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Yin, P., Zhang, L., Wang, Y. et al. Combination of pumpkin-derived biochar with nickel ferrite/FeNi3 toward low frequency electromagnetic absorption. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 25698–25710 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04285-8

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