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Ultrabroad Microwave Absorption Ability and Infrared Stealth Property of Nano-Micro CuS@rGO Lightweight Aerogels

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00906-5
Yue Wu
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Yue Zhao
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Ming Zhou
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Shujuan Tan
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Reza Peymanfar
Department of Chemical Engineering, Energy Institute of Higher Education, Saveh, Iran
Bagher Aslibeiki
Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666‑16471, Iran
Guangbin Ji
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Guangbin Ji

gbji@nuaa.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 14 (2022), Article Number: 171

Abstract

Developing ultrabroad radar-infrared compatible stealth materials has turned into a research hotspot, which is still a problem to be solved. Herein, the copper sulfide wrapped by reduced graphene oxide to obtain three-dimensional (3D) porous network composite aerogels (CuS@rGO) were synthesized via thermal reduction ways (hydrothermal, ascorbic acid reduction) and freeze-drying strategy. It was discovered that the phase components (rGO and CuS phases) and micro/nano structure (microporous and nanosheet) were well-modified by modulating the additive amounts of CuS and changing the reduction ways, which resulted in the variation of the pore structure, defects, complex permittivity, microwave absorption, radar cross section (RCS) reduction value and infrared (IR) emissivity. Notably, the obtained CuS@rGO aerogels with a single dielectric loss type can achieve an ultrabroad bandwidth of 8.44 GHz at 2.8 mm with the low filler content of 6 wt% by a hydrothermal method. Besides, the composite aerogel via the ascorbic acid reduction realizes the minimum reflection loss (RLmin) of − 60.3 dB with the lower filler content of 2 wt%. The RCS reduction value can reach 53.3 dB m2, which effectively reduces the probability of the target being detected by the radar detector. Furthermore, the laminated porous architecture and multicomponent endowed composite aerogels with thermal insulation and IR stealth versatility. Thus, this work offers a facile method to design and develop porous rGO-based composite aerogel absorbers with radar-IR compatible stealth.


Highlights:


1 The CuS@rGO composite aerogel can achieve the broad effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) of 8.44 GHz with the filler content of 6 wt%.
2 The RLmin of CuS@rGO composite aerogel is -55.1 dB and EAB is 7.2 GHz with the filler content of 2 wt% by ascorbic acid thermal reduction. The radar cross-section reduction value of CuS@rGO composite aerogel can reach 53.3 dB m2.
3 The CuS@rGO composite aerogels possess lightweight, compression and recovery, radar-infrared compatible stealth properties.

Keywords

Microwave absorption Ultrabroad bandwidth Composite aerogel Radar cross section Radar-infrared compatible stealth
Wu, Yue, Yue Zhao, Ming Zhou, Shujuan Tan, Reza Peymanfar, Bagher Aslibeiki, and Guangbin Ji. 2022. “Ultrabroad Microwave Absorption Ability and Infrared Stealth Property of Nano-Micro CuS@rGO Lightweight Aerogels”. Nano-Micro Letters 14 (August):171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00906-5.
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