Nickel Carbon Composite With Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient Electromagnetic Wave Absorption

Nickel carbon composite with carbon nanotubes (Ni-C/CNTs) has been fabricated by pyrolysis the mixture of nickel-based metal organic framework (Ni-MOF) and melamine. The resultant Ni-C/CNTs composite is assembled from one-dimensional (1D) CNTs and three dimensional (3D) spherical Ni-C composite. Besides, the Ni-C/CNTs composite contains abundant nitrogen(N) dopants that contributes to defect dipole polarization. The diameter and length of CNTscan beeffected by changing the mass ratio of Ni-MOF and melamine. The optimizedNi-C/CNTs composite exhibits reflection loss of -55.1 dB at 10.56 GHz, and the effective absorbing bandwidth (reflection loss < -10 dB) is 11.2 GHz (6.0-17.2 GHz)with the thickness range of 1.5-4.0 mm, when the mass ratio of Ni-MOF: melamine is 1: 2. These results indicate that the mixed 1D-3D hierarchical architecture synergistically improves electromagnetic wave absorption properties. This strategy willcontribute for fabricating the carbon hybrid network consisting of metal organic frameworks derived metal/carbon hybrid and CNTs for electromagnetic wave absorption.