Hydrophobic,Flexible, and Lightweight MXene Foams for High‐Performance Electromagnetic‐Interference Shielding

Ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible electromagnetic‐interference (EMI) shielding materials are urgently required to manage increasingly serious radiation pollution. 2D transition‐metal carbides (MXenes) are considered promising alternatives to graphene for providing excellent EMI‐shielding performance due to their outstanding metallic electrical conductivity. However, the hydrophilicity of MXene films may affect their stability and reliability when applied in moist or wet environments. Herein, for the first time, an efficient and facile approach is reported to fabricate freestanding, flexible, and hydrophobic MXene foam with reasonable strength by assembling MXene sheets into films followed by a hydrazine‐induced foaming process. In striking contrast to well‐known hydrophilic MXene materials, the MXene foams surprisingly exhibit hydrophobic surfaces and outstanding water resistance and durability. More interestingly, a much enhanced EMI‐shielding effectiveness of ≈70 dB is achieved for the lightweight MXene foam as compared to its unfoamed film counterpart (53 dB) due to the highly efficient wave attenuation in the favorable porous structure. Therefore, the hydrophobic, flexible, and lightweight MXene foam with an excellent EMI‐shielding performance is highly promising for applications in aerospace and portable and wearable smart electronics.     

Carbon Nanotube–Multilayered Graphene Edge Plane Core–Shell Hybrid Foams for Ultrahigh‐Performance Electromagnetic‐Interference Shielding

Materials with an ultralow density and ultrahigh electromagnetic‐interference (EMI)‐shielding performance are highly desirable in fields of aerospace, portable electronics, and so on. Theoretical work predicts that 3D carbon nanotube (CNT)/graphene hybrids are one of the most promising lightweight EMI shielding materials, owing to their unique nanostructures and extraordinary electronic properties. Herein, for the first time, a lightweight, flexible, and conductive CNT–multilayered graphene edge plane (MLGEP) core–shell hybrid foam is fabricated using chemical vapor deposition. MLGEPs are seamlessly grown on the CNTs, and the hybrid foam exhibits excellent EMI shielding effectiveness which exceeds 38.4 or 47.5 dB in X‐band at 1.6 mm, while the density is merely 0.0058 or 0.0089 g cm^?3, respectively, which far surpasses the best values of reported carbon‐based composite materials. The grafted MLGEPs on CNTs can obviously enhance the penetration losses of microwaves in foams, leading to a greatly improved EMI shielding performance. In addition, the CNT–MLGEP hybrids also exhibit a great potential as nano‐reinforcements for fabricating high‐strength polymer‐based composites. The results provide an alternative approach to fully explore the potentials of CNT and graphene, for developing advanced multifunctional materials.     

3D Printing Hierarchical Silver Nanowire Aerogel with Highly Compressive Resilience and Tensile Elongation through Tunable Poisson's Ratio

Metallic aerogels have attracted intense attention due to their superior properties, such as high electrical conductivity, ultralow densities, and large specific surface area. The preparation of metal aerogels with high efficiency and controllability remains challenge. A 3D freeze assembling printing technique integrated with drop‐on‐demand inkjet printing and freeze casting are proposed for metallic aerogels preparation. This technique enables tailoring both the macrostructure and microstructure of silver nanowire aerogels (SNWAs) by integrating programmable 3D printing and freeze casting, respectively. The density of the printed SNWAs is controllable, which can be down to 1.3 mg cm^?3. The ultralight SNWAs reach high electrical conductivity of 1.3 S cm^?1 and exhibit excellent compressive resilience under 50% compressive strain. Remarkably, the printing methodology also enables tuning aerogel architectures with designed Poisson's ratio (from negative to positive). Moreover, these aerogel architechtures with tunable Poisson's ratio present highly electromechanical stability under high compressive and tensile strain (both strain up to 20% with fully recovery).     

Flexible and Ultrathin Waterproof Cellular Membranes Based on High-Conjunction Metal-Wrapped Polymer Nanofibers for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding

Ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials are urgently demanded to address EM radiation pollution. Efficient design to utilize the shields' microstructures is crucial yet remains highly challenging for maximum EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) while minimizing material consumption. Herein, novel cellular membranes are designed based on a facile polydopamine-assisted metal (copper or silver) deposition on electrospun polymer nanofibers. The membranes can efficiently exploit the high-conjunction cellular structures of metal and polymer nanofibers, and their interactions for excellent electrical conductivity, mechanical flexibility, and ultrahigh EMI shielding performance. EMI SE reaches more than 53 dB in an ultra-broadband frequency range at a membrane thickness of merely 2.5 µm and a density of 1.6 g cm⁻³, and an SE of 44.7 dB is accomplished at the lowest thickness of 1.2 µm. The normalized specific SE is up to 232 860 dB cm² g⁻¹, significantly surpassing that of other shielding materials ever reported. More, integrated functionalities are discovered in the membrane, such as antibacterial, waterproof properties, excellent air permeability, high resistance to mechanical deformations and low-voltage uniform heating performance, offering strong potential for applications in aerospace and portable and wearable smart electronics.     

Porous composites coated with hybrid nano carbon materials perform excellent electromagnetic interference shielding

This work reported preparation of porous composites using a simple dip-coating method, and the fabricated composites containing hybrid carbon nanomaterials performed excellent electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties. A commercial sponge was coated with silver nanoparticles before being dip-coated with graphene (GP)/ink, multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)/ink, or hybrid GP/MWCNTs/ink to form Ag/carbon nanomaterial hybrid composites, and then the composites were subjected to EMI measurements in the frequency range of 0.45–1.5 GHz. For comparison, the sponges without Ag nanoparticle coating were also prepared. Herein, we found an insignificant difference in EMI SE among the porous composites without Ag nanoparticle coating, and the maximum values of approximately 14.4 dB was attained. Interestingly, the hybrid composites with Ag nanoparticle coating exhibited maximum EMI shielding of 24.33 dB. Due to their porous structure, the EMI SE measurements showed that reflection dominates the EMI SE for all the sponge composites studied in this work.     

Hierarchical,seamless, edge-rich nanocarbon hybrid foams for highly efficient electromagnetic-interference shielding

Lightweight,flexible,ultrahigh-performance electromagnetic-interference (EMI) shielding materials are urgently required in the areas of aircraft/aerospace,portable and wearable electronics.Herein,1D carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon nanofibers (CNF) with 2D edge-rich graphene (ERG) are used to form a lightweight,flexible CNT-ERG-CNF hybrid foam.This foam was fabricated through a self-sacrificial templating chemical vapor deposition process,where nanocarbons bond through covalent bonding,forming a hierarchical 3D hybridized carbon nanostructure.Multistage conductive networks and heterogeneous interfaces were constructed using edge-rich nanocarbons to increase the induced currents and interracial polarization which makes great contributions to achieve high absorption electromagnetic shielding effectiveness (SEA).The CNT-ERG-CNF hybrid foam exhibits EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) exceeding 55.4 dB in the X-band while the specific SE (SSE,SE divided by mass density) achieves 9200 dB cm3 g-1,which surpasses that of nearly all other carbon-based composite materials.Furthermore,the structural stability and durability of the flexible CNT-ERG-CNF hybrid foams is examined by measuring EMI SE after 10000 times cyclic bending.Remarkably,this work not only provides a new idea for preparing hierarchical carbon materials for a wide range of applications,but presents some fundamental insights for achieving higher absorption losses in EMI shielding materials.     

Incorporating Flexibility into Stiffness: Self‐Grown Carbon Nanotubes in Melamine Sponges Enable A Lithium‐Metal‐Anode Capacity of 15 mA h cm−2 Cyclable at 15 mA cm−2

Although with an extremely high theoretical capacity (3860 mA h g^?1), the lithium (Li) metal anodes reported so far typically possess capacities of ≤5 mA h cm^?2 and cyclable at currents of ≤5 mA cm^?2. In this work, a hierarchal carbon scaffold is designed with the self‐growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in nickel‐decorated melamine sponges via thermal annealing. It is found that the nitrogen‐doped carbon obtained from the melamine sponge, coupled with CNTs, provides an overall strong yet internally flexible host which enables an areal capacity of up to 15 mA h cm^?2 cyclable at a charging/discharging current of 15 mA cm^?2 as Li metal anodes. Characterizations show that the highly conductive yet uniformly distributed CNTs effectively suppress the local current density, leading to more uniform Li nucleation in Li plating. The flexible CNTs in the stiff scaffold enhance the tolerance to the stress caused by the intrinsic volume variation in Li plating/striping, resulting in the stable cycling performance at high currents. This study provides a potentially scalable and cost‐effective strategy for preparation of high‐performance Li‐metal anodes.     

Tough graphene-polymer microcellular foams for electromagnetic interference shielding

Functional polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)/graphene nanocomposite microcellular foams were prepared by blending of PMMA with graphene sheets followed by foaming with subcritical CO(2) as an environmentally benign foaming agent. The addition of graphene sheets endows the insulating PMMA foams with high electrical conductivity and improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding efficiency with microwave absorption as the dominant EMI shielding mechanism. Interestingly, because of the presence of the numerous microcellular cells, the graphene-PMMA foam exhibits greatly improved ductility and tensile toughness compared to its bulk counterpart. This work provides a promising methodology to fabricate tough and lightweight graphene-PMMA nanocomposite microcellular foams with superior electrical and EMI shielding properties by simultaneously combining the functionality and reinforcement of the graphene sheets and the toughening effect of the microcellular cells.     

Ultrahigh Conductive Copper/Large Flake Size Graphene Heterostructure Thin‐Film with Remarkable Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness

To guarantee the normal operation of next generation portable electronics and wearable devices, together with avoiding electromagnetic wave pollution, it is urgent to find a material possessing flexibility, ultrahigh conductive, and superb electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE) simultaneously. In this work, inspired by a building bricks toy with the interlock system, we design and fabricate a copper/large flake size graphene (Cu/LG) composite thin film (≈8.8 μm) in the light of high temperature annealing of a large flake size graphene oxide film followed by magnetron sputtering of copper. The obtained Cu/LG thin‐film shows ultrahigh thermal conductivity of over 1932.73 (±63.07) W m^?1 K^?1 and excellent electrical conductivity of 5.88 (±0.29) × 10⁶ S m^?1. Significantly, it also exhibits a remarkably high EMI SE of over 52 dB at the frequency of 1–18 GHz. The largest EMI SE value of 63.29 dB, accorded at 1 GHz, is enough to obstruct and absorb 99.99995% of incident radiation. To the best of knowledge, this is the highest EMI SE performance reported so far in such thin thickness of graphene‐based materials. These outstanding properties make Cu/LG film a promising alternative building block for power electronics, microprocessors, and flexible electronics.     

Preparation of Porous Silver Nanowires-Melamine Formaldehyde Hybrid Composite Materials and Their Electromagnetic Shielding and Flame-Retardant Properties

Along with the booming development of communication technology and electronic equipment, higher requirements of flame-retardant and EMI shielding performances for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials are put forward. Herein, the ultralight and porous silver nanowires (AgNWs)-melamine formaldehyde (MF) hybrid composite with unique micro-/nanostructure is developed by a facile dip-coating method, which uses the AgNWs as 1D conductive coating and MF foam (MF foam) as 3D skeleton template. Benefiting from the unique porous micro-/nanostructure, the resultant hybrid composite displays low density, excellent EMI shielding performances, and superior flame-retardant property. The EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) and specific EMI SE (SSEt) of the hybrid composite in X-band (8.2–12.4 GHz) can be up to 77 dB and 26971.4 dB cm⁻² g⁻¹, respectively. At the same time, the hybrid composite also passes the vertical burning test and shows an increased LOI value of 40.6%. The combination of flame-retardant and EMI shielding performances for EMI shielding materials makes the AgNWs-MF hybrid composite great application potential in civil and military fields. This work provides a new guide for the design of multifunctional high-performance EMI shielding materials.     

Versatile Electronic Textile Enabled by a Mixed-Dimensional Assembly Strategy

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) hold great promise for serving as next-generation wearable electronics owing to their inherent flexible, air-permeable, and lightweight characteristics. However, these e-textiles are of limited performance mainly because of lacking powerful materials combination. Herein, a versatile e-textile through a simple, high-efficiency mixed-dimensional assembly of 2D MXene nanosheets and 1D silver nanowires (AgNWs) are presented. The effective complementary actions of MXene and AgNWs endow the e-textiles with superior integrated performances including self-powered pressure sensing, ultrafast joule heating, and highly efficient electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. The textile-based self-powered smart sensor systems obtained through the screen-printed assembly of MXene-based supercapacitor and pressure sensor are flexible and lightweight, showing ultrahigh specific capacitance (2390 mF cm⁻²), robust areal energy density (119.5 µWh cm⁻²), excellent sensitivity (474.8 kPa⁻¹), and low detection limit (1 Pa). Furthermore, the interconnected conductive MXene/AgNWs network enables the e-textile with ultrafast temperature response (10.4 °C s⁻¹) and outstanding EMI shielding effectiveness of ≈66.4 dB. Therefore, the proposed mixed-dimensional assembly design creates a multifunctional e-textile that offers a practical paradigm for next-generation smart flexible electronics.     

轻质石墨烯基电磁屏蔽材料的研究进展EI北大核心CSCD

随着先进电子科学技术的迅速发展,电磁辐射造成的电磁污染、电磁干扰、泄密等问题已经成为电子、航天、航空、信息、通信等领域关注的重要问题,本文基于电磁屏蔽的基本理论与石墨烯的主要制备方法,针对不同的应用场合,综述了石墨烯基块体电磁屏蔽材料、泡沫电磁屏蔽材料、柔性薄层电磁屏蔽材料、高温电磁屏蔽材料4大类轻质电磁屏蔽材料的研究进展。同时,概述了石墨烯基电磁屏蔽材料的主要设计思路和制备方法,讨论了电磁屏蔽材料中的基本科学问题。基于应用发展的需求,分析了未来新型电磁屏蔽材料的发展方向和趋势,为发展设计新一代轻质高性能电磁屏蔽材料及结构提出了新的构想。     

微纳米材料在电磁屏蔽方面的应用研究进展

信息技术的迅速发展和电子设备的大量使用,在环境中产生了如电子噪声、电磁波(EM)、电磁干扰(EMI)、射频干扰等电子污染。综述了EMI屏蔽微纳米材料相关方面的研究进展,简要分析了EMI屏蔽的基本机理和比较了纳米EMI屏蔽复合材料的制备方法,同时对比了金属和碳纳米填料EMI屏蔽复合材料,得到金属纳米EMI屏蔽复合材料,虽具有良好效果,但是存在质量大、成本高和耐腐蚀性弱等缺点。因碳系纳米材料具有质量轻,耐腐蚀性,优异的电学、电介质、热学、机械和磁性等独特特性,可替代金属作为EMI屏蔽填料,且EMI屏蔽效果优良。如多层纳米管(MWCNT)和石墨烯/聚苯胺(GN/PANI)纳米复合材料,并且两者材料的混杂可以协同改善复合材料的屏蔽效果。     

Microstructure Design of Lightweight,Flexible, and High Electromagnetic Shielding Porous Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites

Multiwalled carbon nanotube/polymer composites with aligned and isotropic micropores are constructed by a facile ice‐templated freeze‐drying method in a wide density range, with controllable types and contents of the nanoscale building blocks, in order to tune the shielding performance together with the considerable mechanical and electrical properties. Under the mutual promotion of the frame and porous structure, the lightweight high‐performance shielding is achieved: a 2.3 mm thick sample can reach 46.7 and 21.7 dB in the microwave X‐band while the density is merely 32.3 and 9.0 mg cm^?3, respectively. The lowest density corresponds to a value of shielding effectiveness divided by both the density and thickness up to 10⁴ dB cm² g^?1, far beyond the conductive polymer composites with other fillers ever reported. The shielding mechanism of the flexible porous materials is further demonstrated by an in situ compression experiment.     

Ultralight Multifunctional Carbon‐Based Aerogels by Combining Graphene Oxide and Bacterial Cellulose

Nanostructured carbon aerogels with outstanding physicochemical properties have exhibited great application potentials in widespread fields and therefore attracted extensive attentions recently. It is still a challenge so far to develop flexible and economical routes to fabricate high‐performance nanocarbon aerogels, preferably based on renewable resources. Here, ultralight and multifunctional reduced graphene oxide/carbon nanofiber (RGO/CNF) aerogels are fabricated from graphene oxide and low‐cost, industrially produced bacterial cellulose by a three‐step process of freeze‐casting, freeze‐drying, and pyrolysis. The prepared RGO/CNF aerogel possesses a very low apparent density in the range of 0.7–10.2 mg cm^?3 and a high porosity up to 99%, as well as a mechanically robust and electrically conductive 3D network structure, which makes it to be an excellent candidate as absorber for oil clean‐up and an ideal platform for constructing flexible and stretchable conductors.     

Single‐Crystalline,Metallic TiC Nanowires for Highly Robust and Wide‐Temperature Electrochemical Energy Storage

Customized electrode materials with good temperature adaptability and high‐rate capability are critical to the development of wide‐temperature power sources. Herein, high‐quality TiC nanowires are uniformly grown on flexible carbon cloth as free‐standing electric‐double‐layer supercapacitor electrode. The TiC nanowires, 20–40 nm wide and 3–6 µm long, are single‐crystalline and highly conductive that is close to typical metal. Symmetric supercapacitors are constructed with ionic liquid electrolyte and TiC nanowires electrodes as wide‐temperature and long‐cycle stable power source. Ultrastable high‐rate cycling life of TiC nanowire arrays electrodes is demonstrated with capacitance retention of 96.8% at 60 °C (≈440 F g^?1), 99% at 25 °C (≈400 F g^?1), and 98% at ?25 °C (≈240 F g^?1) after 50 000 cycles at 10 A g^?1. Moreover, due to high electrical conductivity, the TiC nanowire arrays show ultrafast energy release with a fast response time constant of ≈0.7 ms. The results demonstrate the viability of metal carbide nanostructures as wide‐temperature, robust electrode materials for high‐rate and ultrastable supercapacitors.     

Ultrathin Cellulose Nanofiber Assisted Ambient-Pressure-Dried,Ultralight, Mechanically Robust,Multifunctional MXene Aerogels

Ambient-pressure-dried (APD) preparation of transition metal carbide/nitrides (MXene) aerogels is highly desirable yet remains highly challenging. Here, ultrathin, high-strength-to-weight-ratio, renewable cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) are efficiently utilized to assist in the APD preparation of ultralight yet robust, highly conductive, large-area MXene-based aerogels via a facile, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and scalable freezing-exchanging-drying approach. The strong interactions of large-aspect-ratio CNF and MXene as well as the biomimetic nacre-like microstructure induce high mechanical strength and stability to avoid the structure collapse of aerogels in the APD process. Abundant functional groups of CNFs facilitate the chemical crosslinking of MXene-based aerogels, significantly improving the hydrophobicity, water resistance, and even oxidation stability. The ultrathin, 1D nature of the CNF renders the minimal MXenes’ interlayered gaps and numerous heterogeneous interfaces, yielding the excellent conductivity and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding performance of aerogels. The synergies of the MXene, CNF, and abundant pores efficiently improve the EMI shielding performance, photothermal conversion, and absorption of viscous crude oil. This work shows great promises of the APD, multifunctional MXene-based aerogels in electromagnetic protection or compatibility, thermal therapy, and oil-water separation applications.     

Room‐Temperature Liquid Metal Confined in MXene Paper as a Flexible,Freestanding, and Binder‐Free Anode for Next‐Generation Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Exploring flexible lithium‐ion batteries is required with the ever‐increasing demand for wearable and portable electronic devices. Selecting a flexible conductive substrate accompanying with closely coupled active materials is the key point. Here, a lightweight, flexible, and freestanding MXene/liquid metal paper is fabricated by confining 3 °C GaInSnZn liquid metal in the matrix of MXene paper without any binder or conductive additive. When used as anode for lithium‐ion cells, it can deliver a high discharge capacity of 638.79 mAh g^?1 at 20 mA g^?1. It also exhibits satisfactory rate capacities, with discharge capacities of 507.42, 483.33, 480.22, 452.30, and 404.47 mAh g^?1 at 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 mA g^?1, respectively. The cycling performance is obviously improved by slightly reducing the charge–discharge voltage range. The composite paper also has better electrochemical performance than liquid metal coated Cu foil. This study proposes a novel flexible anode by a clever combination of MXene paper and low‐melting point liquid metal, paving the way for next‐generation lithium‐ion batteries.     

可用于包装的纤维素基电磁屏蔽材料研究进展

目的 为推动可用于包装的纤维素基电磁干扰(Electromagnetic Interference,EMI)屏蔽材料更深入的研究,综述一些具有包装材料潜质和EMI屏蔽功能的纤维素基薄膜、织物和气凝胶的最新研究进展。方法 主要介绍纤维素基薄膜、织物和气凝胶等3类EMI屏蔽材料的制备方法、EMI屏蔽性能、多功能性和在包装上应用的潜力。结果 当下纤维素基EMI屏蔽材料表现出令人满意的EMI屏蔽效能(EMI Shielding Effectiveness, EMI SE)和力学性能,有望作为包装材料。同时一些材料还显示出抗菌、隔热、抗冲击等特性,使得这些材料能在复杂的场景下应用。结论 通过合理的设计,纤维素基EMI屏蔽材料可拥有优异的EMI屏蔽性能、出色的力学性能和良好的耐用性。归因于上述优势和绿色可降解的特性,这类材料有望在未来取代传统的EMI屏蔽包装材料,然而这些材料通常需要精细的制备工艺,材料的量产和实际应用依然是亟待解决的问题。     

Direct Hydrothermal Synthesis of Carbonaceous Silver Nanocables for Electrocatalytic Applications

This study demonstrates a facile but efficient hydrothermal method for the direct synthesis of both carbonaceous silver (Ag@C core–shell) nanocables and carbonaceous nanotubes under mild conditions (<180 °C). The carbonaceous tubes can be formed by removal of the silver cores via an etching process under temperature control (60–140 °C). The structure and composition are characterized using various advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. The pertinent variables such as temperature, reaction time, and surfactants that can affect the formation and growth of the nanocables and nanotubes are investigated and optimized. It is found that cetyltrimethylammonium bromide plays multiple roles in the formation of Ag@C nanocables and carbonaceous nanotubes including: a shape controller for metallic Ag wires and Ag@C cables, a source of Br^? ions to form insoluble AgBr and then Ag crystals, an etching agent of silver cores to form carbonaceous tubes, and an inducer to refill silver particles into the carbonaceous tubes to form core–shell structures. The formation mechanism of carbonaceous silver nanostructures depending upon temperature is also discussed. Finally, the electrocatalytic performance of the as‐prepared Ag@C nanocables is assessed for the oxidation reduction reaction and found to be very active but much less costly than the commonly used platinum catalysts. The findings should be useful for designing and constructing carbonaceous‐metal nanostructures with potential applications in conductive materials, catalysts, and biosensors.