Hollow Semiconductor Nanospheres-Anchored Graphene Oxide Sheets for Effective Microwave Absorption

Two-dimensional MXenes: recent emerging applications

MXenes, are a rapidly growing family of two-dimensional materials exhibiting outstanding electronic, optical, mechanical, and thermal properties with versatile transition metal and surface chemistries. A wide range of transition metals and surface termination groups facilitate the properties of MXenes to be easily tuneable. Due to the physically strong and environmentally stable nature of MXenes, they have already had a strong presence in different fields, for instance energy storage, electrocatalysis, water purification, and chemical sensing. Some of the newly discovered applications of MXenes showed very promising results, however, they have not been covered in any review article. Therefore, in this review we comprehensively review the recent advancements of MXenes in various potential fields including energy conversion and storage, wearable flexible electronic devices, chemical detection, and biomedical engineering. We have also presented some of the most exciting prospects by combining MXenes with other materials and forming mixed dimensional high performance heterostructures based novel electronic devices.

Synthesis of 3D flower-like Fe3S4 microspheres and quasi-sphere Fe3S4-RGO hybrid-architectures with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption

3D flower-like Fe3S4 microspheres and quasi-sphere Fe3S4-RGO hybrid-architectures were successfully fabricated by a facile template-free hydrothermal method. The results of morphology revealed that the single Fe3S4 was composed of many nanoflakes and the Fe3S4-RGO composites mainly distributed together into a ball up and down the RGO sheet. The electromagnetic parameters of the single Fe3S4 and Fe3S4-RGO composites could be controlled by adjusting different filler loading and the addition of different GO to achieve impedance matching. Both the single Fe3S4 and Fe3S4-RGO composites exhibited an excellent EM absorption ability. The minimum reflection loss (RL) of the single Fe3S4 with 50% filler loading could achieve -66.87 dB at 10.57 GHz for the thickness of 2.2 mm, and the absorption bandwidth (RL < -10 dB) could reach 3.49 GHz. For the Fe3S4-RGO composites, the minimum RL of FSR-1 could be -40.25 dB at 9.67 GHz with the thickness of 2.0 mm. In addition, the effective absorption bandwidth of FSR-2 could reach 3.85 GHz at only 1.45 mm and the minimum RL was -29.25 dB at 14.24 GHz. Consequently, the single Fe3S4 and Fe3S4-RGO composites are promising materials as a high performance and adjustable EM wave absorber.