Nanoarchitectonics of MnO_(2)nanotubes as sea urchin-like aggregates for dielectric response and microwave absorption with a wide concentration domain

Designing highly reliable and practical microwave absorbers is one of the most important research directions in the microwave absorbing field.Many absorbents suffer from concentration-sensitivity and environmental-sensitivity dilemmas in practical applications.Here,sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO_(2)nanotubes were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method,which exhibit an outstanding impedance matching characteristic.The composites based on sea urchin-like aggregates of MnO_(2)nanotubes show excellent microwave absorption performance in a wide concentration domain from 20 wt.%to 70 wt.%,corresponding to electrical conductivities from 1.86×10^(−7)to 1.85×10^(−5)S/m.Such a wide concentration range of absorbent for excellent microwave absorption is mainly attributed to the beneficial impedance matching properties of sea urchin-like aggregates of hollow nanotubes.A competitive absorption bandwidth of 3.36 GHz is achieved at 1 mm thickness,which can be broadened to 13.4 GHz by structural design.This work shows a new scheme for designing reliable and practical microwave absorbers benefit from the wide absorbent concentration domain.