Flexible and excellent electromagnetic interference shielding film with porous alternating PVA-derived carbon and graphene layers.

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Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, P.R. China.

Published: October 2023


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Recently, the design of graphene-based films with elaborately controlled microstructures and optimized electromagnetic interference shielding (EMI) properties can effectively improve EM energy attenuation and conversion. Herein, inspired by the structure of multi-layer steamed bread, an alternating multilayered structure with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-derived carbon layers and graphene/electrospun carbon nanofibers layers was designed through alternating vacuum-assisted filtration method. The composite film exhibited favorable impedance matching, abundant loss mechanism, and excellent EMI shielding ability, resulting in absorption dominated shielding characteristic. Thus, the resultant 7-layer alternating composite films with a thickness of 160 μm achieved an EMI shielding effectiveness (EMI SE) of up to 80 dB in the X-band. Specially, finite element analysis was applied to demonstrate the importance of seven-layer film alternations and detailed analysis of electromagnetic shielding mechanisms. Taken together, this effort opens a creative avenue for designing and constructing flexible composite films with excellent EMI shielding performance.

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