Flexible Sandwich-Structured Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Nanocomposite Films with Excellent Thermal Conductivities.

With the rapid development and popularization of smart, portable, and wearable flexible electronic devices, urgent demands have been raised for flexible electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding films to solve related electromagnetic pollution problems. With polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as polymer matrix, the sandwich-structured EMI shielding nanocomposite films are prepared via electrospinning-laying-hot pressing technology, where Fe3 O4 /PVA composite electrospun nanofibers in the top and bottom layers and Ti3 C2 Tx /PVA composite electrospun nanofibers in the middle layer. Owing to the electrospinning process and the successful construction of the sandwich structure, when the amounts of Ti3 C2 Tx and Fe3 O4 are respectively only 13.3 and 26.7 wt%, the EMI shielding effectiveness (EMI SE) of the sandwich-structured EMI shielding nanocomposite films reach 40 dB with the thickness of 75 µm, higher than that of (Fe3 O4 /Ti3 C2 Tx )/PVA EMI shielding nanocomposite films (21 dB) prepared based on blending-electrospinning-hot pressing process under the same amounts of fillers. Furthermore, the prepared sandwich-structured EMI shielding nanocomposite films possess excellent thermal conductivities and mechanical properties. This novel kind of flexible sandwich-structured EMI shielding nanocomposite films with excellent EMI shielding performances, thermal conductivities, and mechanical properties presents broad application prospects in the fields of EMI shielding and protection for high-power, portable, and wearable flexible electronic devices.