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Enhanced microwave absorption properties of polymer-derived SiC/SiCN composite ceramics modified by TiC

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Porous SiCN(Ti) composite ceramics with good microwave absorbing performance were fabricated by pyrolysis of solid polysilazane modified by tetrabutyl titanate. The introduction of Ti not only acted as active filler to react with free carbon in the matrix to form TiC, but also played the role as catalyst to promote the formation of SiC nanowires. Finally, SiCN(Ti) composite ceramics formed a microstructure containing multi-nanophases and multi-nano heterogeneous interfaces when annealing temperature reached 1500 °C. The complex microstructure annealed at 1500 °C made composite ceramics have good matching impedance, as well as greatly increase the interfacial polarization loss and dipole polarization loss. As a result, the TiC/SiC/SiCN composite ceramics showed the excellent performance of electromagnetic wave absorption in X band. The minimum reflection loss (RL) of samples was − 17.1 dB at the thickness of 1.9 mm, and the maximum effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) of composite ceramics was 3.2 GHz when the thickness of sample was 2.1 mm, which exhibited a promising prospect as a structural and microwave absorbing integration material.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51821091 and 51902257), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (51725205), and the 111 Project (B08040). We would like to thank my mentor professor Xiaowei Yin for his guidance and help.

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Liu, X., Tang, Z., Xue, J. et al. Enhanced microwave absorption properties of polymer-derived SiC/SiCN composite ceramics modified by TiC. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 25895–25907 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-05193-7

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