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Flexible and Thermostable Graphene/SiC Nanowires Foam Composites
with Tunable Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Properties
Meikang Han, Xiaowei Yin, Zexin Hou, Changqing Song, Xinliang Li, Litong Zhang, and Laifei Cheng
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4 Flexible and Thermostable Graphene/SiC Nanowires Foam Composites with
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9 Meikang Han, Xiaowei Yin*, Zexin Hou, Changqing Song, Xinliang Li, Litong
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21 Three-dimensional (3D) flexible foams consisting of reduced graphene oxides
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31 were improved. It was demonstrated that rGO/SiC NWs foams were thermostable
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36 NWs foams in the poly (dimethylsiloxane) matrix achieved effective absorption in the
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those of the pure rGO foams. It is revealed that SiC nanowires with abundant stacking
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enhanced electromagnetic absorption performance, besides the contribution of
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efficient absorbers in the critical environments, but also can be applied in
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KEYWORDS: graphene, SiC, electromagnetic absorption, flexible, thermostable
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4 INTRODUCTION
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6 The explosive development of wireless communication equipment and electronic
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29 rGO/CuS,11 rGO/CoNi,12 CNTs/Fe3O4,13 CNTs/Ni/MoS2,14 carbon fiber/Fe,15 and
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reduction processes for the synthesis of hierarchical rGO/SiC NWs foams. 3D
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21 Preparation of GO and rGO foams. In a typical synthesis, GO powders (0.1 g;
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24 Nanjing XF Nano Materials Tech Co., China) were dispersed in deionized water (100
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Yinfeng Silicon Products Co. Ltd., China) and silica powder (the mole ratio is 1:1)
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uniformly into an alumina crucible, and the as-synthesized GO foams were set on the
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6 Characterization. The morphology of the foams was observed using scanning
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