Facile Synthesis of Metal Oxide Decorated Carbonized Bamboo Fibers with Wideband Microwave Absorption.

Aiming at the disadvantages of high cost, complex processes, low yield, and narrow bandwidth of carbon-based microwave absorbing materials, this paper provides a novel and efficient method for synthesizing metal oxide/carbonized bamboo fibers using renewable natural bamboo fibers as a carbon source. The results suggested that the metal oxides such as NiO and Fe 3 O 4 were uniformly dispersed on the carbonized bamboo fibers and proved that the dielectric component NiO and magnetic component Fe 3 O 4 can significantly improve the microwave absorption performance of the carbonized bamboo fibers. As expected, the NiO/carbonized bamboo fibers showed excellent microwave absorption performance due to the appropriate complex permittivity, high impedance matching, and attenuation coefficient. A wide effective bandwidth of 6.4 GHz with 2.2 mm thickness is achieved, covering the entire Ku-band. Remarkably, the reflection loss (RL) values less than -10 dB covered the whole X-band at a thickness of 3.0 mm. This work reveals the potential of carbonized bamboo fibers-based composite as an economic and broadband microwave absorbent and offers a new strategy for designing promising microwave absorption materials.