Enhancement of microwave absorption of nanocomposite BaFe_(12)O_(19)/α-Fe microfibers

Nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers with diameters of about 1-5 μm are prepared by the organic gelthermal selective reduction process. The binary phase of BaFe12O19 and α-Fe is formed after reduction of the precursor BaFe12O19/α-Fe2O3 microfibers at 350℃ for 1 h. These nanocomposite microfibers are fabricated from α-Fe (16-22 nm in diameter) and BaFe12O19 particles (36-42 nm in diameter) and basically exhibit a single-phase-like magnetization behavior, with a high saturation magnetization and coercive force arising from the exchange-coupling interactions of soft α-Fe and hard BaFe12O19 . The microwave absorption characteristics in a 2-18 GHz frequency range of the nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers are mainly influenced by their mass ratio of α-Fe/BaFe12O19 and specimen thickness. It is found that the nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers with a mass ratio of 1:6 and specimen thickness of 2.5 mm show an optimal reflection loss (RL) of 29.7 dB at 13.5 GHz and the bandwidth with RL exceeding 10 dB covers the whole Ku-band (12.4-18.0 GHz). This enhancement of microwave absorption can be attributed to the heterostructure of soft, nano, conducting α-Fe particles embedded in hard, nano, semiconducting barium ferrite, which improves the dipolar polarization, interfacial polarization, exchange-coupling interaction, and anisotropic energy in the nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers.     

Microwave absorption properties of a double-layer absorber based on nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe and nanocrystalline α-Fe microfibers

The nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe and nanocrystalline α-Fe microfibers with diameters of 1–5 μm, high aspect ratios and large specific areas are prepared by the citrate gel transformation and reduction process. The nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers show some exchange–coupling interactions largely arising from the magnetization hard(BaFe12O19) and soft(α-Fe) nanoparticles. For the microwave absorptions, the double-layer structures consisting of the nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe and α-Fe microfibers each exhibit a wide band and strong absorption behavior. When the nanocomposite BaFe12O19/α-Fe microfibers are used as a matching layer of 2.3 mm in thickness and α-Fe microfibers as an absorbing layer of 1.2 mm in thickness, the optimal reflection loss(RL) achieves-47 dB at 15.6 GHz, the absorption bandwidth is about 12.7 GHz ranging from 5.3 to 18 GHz, exceeding-20 dB, which covers 72.5% C-band(4.2–8.2 GHz)and whole X-band(8.2–12.4 GHz) and Ku-band(12.4–18 GHz). The enhanced absorption properties of these double-layer absorbers are mainly ascribed to the improvement in impedance matching ability and microwave multi-reflection largely resulting from the dipolar polarization, interfacial polarization, exchange–coupling interaction, and small size effect.     

含金金属纳米颗粒用于液相化学氢化物催化制氢

液相化学氢化物以化学键的形式储存氢能,被认为是一类很有前景的化学储氢材料。液相化学氢化物的大规模应用很大程度上依赖于高效催化系统的开发。含金金属纳米颗粒在用于液相化学氢化物催化制氢中表现出优异的催化性能。本文综述了金纳米颗粒和含金异金属纳米颗粒用于液相氢化物催化制氢的最新研究进展。