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Ag–Ni–Fe–P multielemental nanoparticles in situ grown on reduced graphene oxide with excellent electromagnetic absorption properties

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The monodisperse Ag–Ni–Fe–P multielemental nanoparticles were synthesized using a simple colloidal synthesis strategy, with size control achieved at approximately 9 nm. Subsequently, a monodisperse Ag–Ni–Fe–P/reduced graphene oxide composite was synthesized via the hot injection method. The Ag–Ni–Fe–P multielemental nanoparticles maintained their small size and uniform dispersion on the reduced graphene oxide, without any aggregation. When compared to the solo Ag–Ni–Fe–P multielemental nanoparticles, the composite exhibited significantly improved electromagnetic absorption performance, with a reflection loss of up to − 40.03 dB at the thickness of 3 mm and an effective electromagnetic absorption bandwidth of up to 3.1 GHz.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21473051), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (LH2019B014), and Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team Project of Heilongjiang Province (2018-KYYWF-1593).

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  1. Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, People’s Republic of China

    Wenjing Cui, Yue Yu, Ruiji Sun, Wangsheng Jiang & Lihong Qi

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, China

    Lihong Qi & Kai Pan

  3. Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, People’s Republic of China

    Song Wang & Kai Pan

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WC: Writing—original draft. YY: Investigation. SW: Data curation. RS: Formal analysis. WJ: Software. LQ: Supervision, Conceptualization. KP: Supervision, Writing—review & editing.

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Cui, W., Yu, Y., Wang, S. et al. Ag–Ni–Fe–P multielemental nanoparticles in situ grown on reduced graphene oxide with excellent electromagnetic absorption properties. MRS Communications 13, 546–553 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-023-00380-z

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