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CNT@PDMS/NW composite materials with superior electromagnetic shielding

  • Zi-Jing Zhou , Zhen-Xing Wang , Xiao-shuai Han and Jun-Wen Pu EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 22, 2021
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Abstract

Lightweight materials with high electrical conductivity and hydrophobic mechanical properties are ideal materials for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. Herein, the conductive composites with great EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) were successfully obtained by introducing multi-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based on the original structure of natural wood (NW). CNT@PDMS/NW composites were prepared via vacuum-pulse impregnation method and characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns, hydrophobicity analysis, and EMI shielding performance. As demonstrated, CNT nanosheets were successfully inserted into wood matrices, and hydrogen bonding between CNT nanosheets and cellulose nanofibers induced the fabrication of CNT@PDMS/NW composites. CNT@PDMS/NW composites exhibited excellent EMI SE values of 25.2 dB at the X-band frequency.


Corresponding author: Jun-Wen Pu, Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry, College of Materials Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P. R. China, E-mail:

Award Identifier / Grant number: No. 2016HXKFCLXY001

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: The authors are grateful for the financial support through a special fund from the Beijing Common Construction Project and Beijing Forestry University (grant no. 2016HXKFCLXY001).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2021-0132).


Received: 2021-07-12
Accepted: 2021-10-28
Published Online: 2021-12-22
Published in Print: 2022-03-28

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