Electromagnetic(EM)wave absorbers with wideband absorption capability are proposed as a strategy to mitigate environmental pollution by EM waves.However,designing an EM absorber with its performance capacity independe...Electromagnetic(EM)wave absorbers with wideband absorption capability are proposed as a strategy to mitigate environmental pollution by EM waves.However,designing an EM absorber with its performance capacity independent of the EM wave incident angle remains elusive to date.Resolving this challenge requires development of EM absorbers whose EM absorption performance is insensitive to the EM wave incident angle.Herein,we synthesized EM absorbers with a variety of structures with different symme-tries(including micro-/nanospheres,nanoflakes and nanotubes)to study the effect of the EM absorbers’structure and the EM wave incident angle on the EM absorption performance.Our analysis reveals that non-magnetic EM absorbers with spatially symmetric nanostructures exhibit excellent EM wave incident angle-insensitivity.Finally,we demonstrate that a class of non-magnetic EM absorbers made from bam-boo derived-carbon nanospheres exhibit EM incident angle-insensitivity and wideband EM absorption performance with an effective absorption band up to 3.5 GHz when the thickness is 1.4 mm,a signif-icant improvement from prior studies which used thicknesses as high as 3-4 mm for comparable EM absorption performance.展开更多
基金financial support from the startup fund of the Ohio State University (OSU)OSU Sustainability Institute Seed Grant+5 种基金OSU Institute for Materials Research Kickstart Facility Grantthe National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31971740)support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31901007)Science and technology project of Jiangsu Province (BE2018391)State Key Laboratory Special Fund(No. 2060204)fund from Henan University of Science and Technology (2020-RSC02)
文摘Electromagnetic(EM)wave absorbers with wideband absorption capability are proposed as a strategy to mitigate environmental pollution by EM waves.However,designing an EM absorber with its performance capacity independent of the EM wave incident angle remains elusive to date.Resolving this challenge requires development of EM absorbers whose EM absorption performance is insensitive to the EM wave incident angle.Herein,we synthesized EM absorbers with a variety of structures with different symme-tries(including micro-/nanospheres,nanoflakes and nanotubes)to study the effect of the EM absorbers’structure and the EM wave incident angle on the EM absorption performance.Our analysis reveals that non-magnetic EM absorbers with spatially symmetric nanostructures exhibit excellent EM wave incident angle-insensitivity.Finally,we demonstrate that a class of non-magnetic EM absorbers made from bam-boo derived-carbon nanospheres exhibit EM incident angle-insensitivity and wideband EM absorption performance with an effective absorption band up to 3.5 GHz when the thickness is 1.4 mm,a signif-icant improvement from prior studies which used thicknesses as high as 3-4 mm for comparable EM absorption performance.
